The company I'm working with has been doing annual "wall-to-wall" Physical Inventory counts. They now want to cutover to Cycle Counting and have 20,000 materials that they manage in inventory. The last count was performed in October of 2006. So the concern is that if they turn on cycle counting, it will create count docs for all materials. They want a way of staggering the docs automatically so that the warehouse is not hit all at once. I mentioned that the problem would be lessened if they rolled out cycle counting right after the next wall-to-wall, but their setup is as follows:
A is counted monthly
B is counted bi-monthly
C is counted semi-annually
So, they would also end up with all of their Cs on the same day (6 months after the last wall-to-wall). They will have to figure out a way to stagger the counts so that they get a manageable daily volume of count documents. Does anyone have suggestions as to how to cutover in a reasonable way?
Thanks,
Richard