by Jon Schreibfeder | Mar 15, 2026 | Best Practices, Forecasting, General, Physical Inventory – Cycle Counting, Stocking Decisions
It’s Time to Balance Your InventoryBy Jon and Matt Schreibfeder Unless you own a pet store, your inventory is not alive. It does not have feelings and won’t complain about working too hard. It is a sad fact that too many companies allow their inventory to become lazy....
by Jon Schreibfeder | Feb 15, 2026 | Best Practices, Order Cycles, Physical Inventory – Cycle Counting, Purchasing, Stocking Decisions, Warehousing
Rational Product RationalizationBy Jon and Matt Schreibfeder The goal of effective inventory management is to “meet or exceed customers’ expectations of product availability while maximizing your net profits.” Last month we began a discussion about removing unneeded,...
by Effective Inventory Management | Aug 8, 2025 | Physical Inventory – Cycle Counting
Cycle counting is the process of verifying the on-hand quantity of a specific number of stock products every day. It’s usually better than a once-a-year wall-to-wall physical inventory count for keeping your perpetual inventory accurate—and it does something else...
by Effective Inventory Management | Aug 8, 2025 | Physical Inventory – Cycle Counting
Annual physical inventory counts are the unglamorous but necessary reset button for your stock records. Done right, they deliver a clean baseline for accounting, tax, audit, and purchasing decisions. Done poorly, they nuke a weekend and still leave you arguing with...
by Effective Inventory Management | Aug 8, 2025 | Physical Inventory – Cycle Counting
If you have inventory, then you need a cycle counting program to properly manage and reconcile your stock counts. Cycle counting isn’t just “counting lite.” It’s a disciplined, always-on system that keeps your inventory honest without shutting down operations. Below...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Aug 8, 2025 | Physical Inventory – Cycle Counting
No one in their right mind enjoys doing a physical inventory. Many would rather sit in a dentist’s chair than spend a weekend counting every last nut, bolt, and box in the warehouse. But what’s worse than doing it? Doing it wrong. A wall-to-wall stock count that...
