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Course
Fundamentals
of Inventory
Management
Seminar
System
Implementation Handbook
Cycle Counting
for
Record Accuracy Seminar
offered at your site
This two day seminar presents the sixteen steps to inventory record accuracy
from education and
training to elimination of the annual physical inventory. The course of
instruction follows the doctrine
contained in the revised edition of the APICS Training
Aid on Cycle Counting for Record Accuracy.
The seminar is conducted by the co-author of the
APICS Training Aid. Participants will return to
their companies with the knowledge
required to install and manage an effective cycle counting program.
In this comprehensive
seminar you will learn how your company can achieve these benefits from an
effective cycle
counting system:
 | Improved customer service |
| Increased productivity. |
| Lower investment in safety stocks. |
| Fewer stock-outs. |
| Better cost control. |
| Timely correction of conditions causing errors. |
| Complete or partial elimination of the loss of productive time. No need to shut down
operations for physical inventory. |
| Development of specialists who become efficient in obtaining good counts, reconciling
differences and finding solutions to system errors. |
| Fewer mistakes in item identification. |
| Concentration of efforts in problem areas. |
| High inventory accuracy through constant surveillance. |
| No requirement for staging of items to determine availability or shortages. |
| Valid data for inventory replenishment action. |
| Less obsolete and excess inventory. |
| Reduced year-end inventory write-offs. |
| Correct statement of assets throughout the year. |
AGENDA
First Day
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Introduction -- Objectives
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Inventory Record Accuracy -- Need for Accurate Records.
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Refreshment break
10:45 - 12:00 noon Distribution by value analysis -- Application to cycle counting
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch and group interaction.
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Methods of cycle counting -- Acceptable levels of accuracy
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Refreshment break
2:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Initial phase of cycle counting:
Identification of problems.
Selecting items to be cycle counted.
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Organizing for cycle counting
Techniques of
counting.
Procedure
for cycle counting.
Second Day
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Cycle count reconciliation:
Cycle counting work in process.
Cycle
counting applied to other records.
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Refreshment break
10:45 - 12:00 noon Computer applications:
Cycle counting without counting.
Improve
the process; Don't inspect quality in.
Elimination of annual inventory.
Benefits of
cycle counting
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch and group interaction.
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Work on your company's plan for cycle counting
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Refreshment break
2:45 - 4:30 p.m.
Presentation of implementation plans for cycle
counting.
Questions and answers
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