I greet all professionals in the Warehousing and Logistics Section.

I work as a warehouse supervisor in an FMCG production Company.
I needs answers to this questions as we do incure shortage of stocks btw one to 3 three cartons per SKUs on a weekly basis while sometimes few excess in which we won't know where it came from and no customer ever complain of them been short Loaded.

From previous work experiences which is not an FMCG, no shortages were incured but in this current and being an FMCG which supplies cut across the whole nations. There are always shortage of stock in the Warehouse and atimes we have excess of few stock items after all projected customers must have been loaded as per daily plan.

My question again for those that work in an FMCG sector, are such shortages and excesses bound to happen. What could have led to such events?

I heard one of my superior say, its an fmcg and bound to have such occurrence but if the shortage is more that a particular quantity then it must be questioned.

I await your responses professionals.
Thank you.

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Shortages and excesses are unavoidable when it comes to physical counting of inventory. Most of them occur due to the arrangement of the warehouse, product formation on pallets and the likes. Whenever I experience these irregularities, I just relax for some few minutes, check if my system entries are accurate and then recount. The differences after counting should be +-5, depending on the size of the inventory to be counted. Say for around 10,000pcs for a particular SKU, difference shouldn't be more than 2. All these are from my experiences working with warehouses. Hope I was able to help.

fmcjunior:
Shortages and excesses are unavoidable when it comes to physical counting of inventory. Most of them occur due to the arrangement of the warehouse, product formation on pallets and the likes. Whenever I experience these irregularities, I just relax for some few minutes, check if my system entries are accurate and then recount. The differences after counting should be +-5, depending on the size of the inventory to be counted. Say for around 10,000pcs for a particular SKU, difference shouldn't be more than 2. All these are from my experiences working with warehouses. Hope I was able to help.

Thanks brother
No other better way to have answered this question. That was helpful.

From your end, how do you treat shortages and excesses that lingers for a very long time.
Do you deduct from the shortages from staffs salary while uour receive in the excess into the system.

Or you make one sku knock out the other so as to balance the stock?

WareLogMan:



Thanks brother
No other better way to have answered this question. That was helpful.

From your end, how do you treat shortages and excesses that lingers for a very long time.
Do you deduct from the shortages from staffs salary while uour receive in the excess into the system.

Or you make one sku knock out the other so as to balance the stock?

I'll wait a little bit before taking actions, say maybe a week. Especially for excesses, I noticed that some palettes are not complete and the excesses I detected balance up the incomplete palettes. In cases where I don't detect incomplete palettes or customers being short-loaded, the excesses are added back to the inventory. As for shortages, the production team will be penalized for an incomplete palette formation if it was discovered that a customer was not over-loaded.