Your Tool Crib Is Telling You Something: Cycle Counts as an Early Warning
A year ago, I wrote about setting up cycle counting for supply items in the Plex ERP tool crib. We covered why counting a little throughout the year works better than doing one large annual count, how to set up counts in Plex, and the basics of ABC classification and assigning ownership. That post focused on how to count . This one is about what the count results can teach you. Listen to this post When the Counts Start Drifting You set up the cycle types, define the parameters, and get Plex Mobile scanning. Counts happen on schedule—and then the same variances keep appearing. A few carbide inserts are short. A drill index is over. The differences aren’t huge, but they keep coming back. The first instinct may be to count more often. But if the same items repeatedly drift in the same direction, counting more frequently probably won’t fix the caus...