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Inventory Accuracy Audit Checklist

A self-audit checklist for wholesale distributors: measure your real inventory accuracy, find where the errors enter, and fix the process instead of the symptoms.

What you'll learn

  • How to measure accuracy honestly, by location and by value
  • The five places errors enter a warehouse
  • Receiving, picking, and adjustment checks in sequence
  • What accuracy unlocks: promised dates you can keep
Inventory accuracy is not a warehouse virtue. It is the number that decides whether your promises to customers are real.

What's inside

Every promise a distributor makes rests on one number: does the system quantity match the shelf? When it does not, sales promises stock that is not there, purchasing reorders stock that is, and the warehouse burns hours hunting for phantom inventory.

This checklist is a self-audit. Run it before investing in any new system, because it tells you where the errors actually enter.

  1. 1

    Measure the truth first

    Count 50 random SKUs across locations. Record match rate by line and by value.

  2. 2

    Receiving

    Receipts entered the day goods arrive, not batched for Friday

  3. 3

    Picking and shipping

    Picks confirmed against the order line, item and quantity

  4. 4

    Adjustments and counts

    Every adjustment carries a reason code and a person

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