Inventory and Warehouse Management, The Series (collected from several sources)

Inventory Management
Once the goods are put away, they become inventory. Anyone with more than a year in the warehousing industry is likely familiar with the drudgery that is the laborious task of physical inventory.

In nowadays, the non-wireless/classic inventory scenario requires employees to count (some cynics might say interpret) part and stock numbers and then mark them and the respective quantities on counting sheets.The much more elegant RF scenario has the employee scanning an item's bin or shelf label, and then either manually counting the quantity or scanning the each item within a bin. One key results is that you can generate inventory reports much faster and identify discrepancies.