One UK's largest wholesale dancewear suppliers, servicing dance teachers and dance shops with quality dancewear needed support from RGIS to provide a full valuation of the stock that was held in both the warehouse and site.

REQUIREMENT
The dancewear supplier chose RGIS to help provide them with the wall-to-wall warehouse count support they needed. The customer's specific requirements were:

• A full wall-to-wall stock count of warehouse and site
• 500,000 units of dancewear clothing and accessories for a full valuation exercise
• Needed to be completed per bin location
• Variances needed to be recorded for all SKUs across multiple rooms and locations
• A manual record was also required on paper
• Data to be used to enable updating of site systems

SOLUTION
RGIS worked with the dancewear supplier and completed the following:

• RGIS managed the workflow of counting the warehouse and site, across a full weekend (48 hours)
• Up to 40 experienced auditors were on site at any one time
• An eight hour shift pattern was used across two days
• Full records were kept of bin location counts
• Results were compared to expected quantities
• The customer checked 10% of variances for rechecks
• Updated systems post count

RESULTS
The dancewear supplier were very impressed with RGIS team's accuracy and operations across the weekend, which has now resulted in the following:

• The dancewear supplier engaged for another count next year
• The customer aims to introduce all stock items to be scanned for next year
• Going forward, RGIS will scan all SKUs and create variance reports systemically for each scanned bin location
• The future development will allow the customer to update all items from a master output file

Introducing this new operation gives the customer a true picture of the items in stock and where the stock items were located within the warehouse.

Related Service: Warehouse Wall-to-Wall Counts