Annual counts that shut the site down
A full manual count costs a weekend of labour and overtime, and the number it produces is already ageing by Monday.
Industries
Warehouse Management
Cycle counts measured in hours, stock accuracy that stops drifting, and the wrong pallet stopped at the dispatch door instead of at the customer.
The problem
Safety stock covering for bad data
When the system figure cannot be trusted, the buffer grows.
Dispatch errors found by the customer
A mis-picked pallet costs the return freight, the replacement, the credit note and a chunk of the relationship.
Hours lost searching for stock
Product that is in the building but not where the system says it is consumes more labour than most managers ever measure.
How we solve it
Handheld cycle counting
An operator walks the aisle and reads hundreds of tags per second.
Dock door portals
Automatic verification on receiving and dispatch.
Search-for-item mode
A handheld in Geiger-counter mode locates a specific pallet in a large rack in minutes rather than an afternoon.
WMS and ERP integration
Reads land as transactions in the system you already run, with reconciliation reports for the exceptions.
The stock figure everybody knows is wrong
Most warehouses run on an inventory number nobody fully trusts. The annual count shuts the site for a weekend, produces a large adjustment, and by the following month the drift has started again. The cost is not just the write-off — it is the safety stock held to cover the uncertainty, and the orders promised against stock that is not there.
Typical use cases
- Goods-in verification against purchase orders
- Zone-based weekly cycle counting
- Putaway and location confirmation
- Pick verification and dispatch accuracy
- Returnable asset and pallet tracking
- Exit-gate control against unauthorised removal
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99.9%
Achievable inventory accuracy with a correctly designed system
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Hours
Full cycle count time, replacing a weekend shutdown
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Weekly
Counting becomes routine instead of an annual shutdown
Frequently asked questions
Do we have to tag every single item?
Not necessarily. Many warehouses start at pallet and carton level, which delivers most of the receiving and dispatch benefit at a fraction of the tag cost.
Will RFID work in a steel-racked warehouse?
Yes, with proper design. Steel racking reflects RF and creates both dead spots and unwanted reads, which is exactly why we run an RF survey on your site before specifying antennas rather than working from a floor plan.
How long before we see a return?
The return comes from counting labour and from dispatch errors that never reach the customer. How quickly it pays back depends on your item count, your current count frequency and your error rate, so we model it from your own figures during the consulting phase rather than quoting an average.
Let us look at your warehouse management operation.
Site surveys and first consultations cost nothing. If RFID or surveillance is not the right answer for you, we will say so.