More people don't always solve process problems We had a rough stretch last spring. Inventory adjustments hitting four or five times a week, a variance rate sitting somewhere around 3.2% on our fast-moving slots, and every post-mortem landing on the same diagnosis: not enough bodies on the floor. We put in the hours. We hired a temp crew. We counted harder. The variances barely moved. It took a blunt conversation with one of our leads — someone who'd been counting that buildi

Outdated stock data creates costly inventory blind spots If you're moving 300 units a day and your last full count was Tuesday, by Monday morning that number is basically fiction. You've shipped, you've received, you've had a few misscans, maybe a damaged pallet that got pulled but not yet adjusted. The system still says 847. The shelf has something different on it. And you won't know which one is lying until someone pulls an order that isn't there. This is the part that does