Smart Count
Overview
The Smart Count SuiteApp enables you to perform inventory counts in real-time, during business hours without having to stop your operations. When you start counting an item, the SuiteApp records the on-hand quantity of the item. The SuiteApp automatically notifies the counter (employee doing the count) for any on-hand changes during count, and suggests an appropriate action. You can also set a default action to handle items with on-hand changes during count.
You can perform inventory count for the following items:
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Assembly/Bill of Materials
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Lot Numbered
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Serialized
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Inventory Item
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Lot Numbered
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Serialized
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The SuiteApp works together with the SCM Mobile SuiteApp to provide the framework, which enables inventory counting on your mobile device. Using the SuiteApp, you can perform directed count and spot count. In directed count, the counter counts items from a task list generated based on the saved search included in a count configuration record. In spot or nondirected count, the counter can pick any item for count.
The SuiteApp supports Bin, Units of Measure (UOM), and Inventory Status features for inventory counting. The SuiteApp also lets you review item counts and resolve differences in the counted quantity. After review, you can approve count, reject count, or mark items for recount.
The Smart Count SuiteApp provides a dashboard that displays item counts performed in each location and also includes default saved searches. For more information, see Smart Count Dashboard and Smart Count Saved Searches.
Smart Count Features
The Smart Count SuiteApp enables you to:
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Perform directed inventory count using a system-generated task list based on user-defined saved searches. For more information, see Creating Count Configuration Records and Performing Inventory Count on Mobile Devices
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Enforce blind count to prevent displaying expected item quantity for a specific item or all items. For more information, see Setting Up Smart Count Preferences.
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Define quantity, amount, quantity percentage, and amount percentage tolerances of inventory items at the item and company levels. For more information, see Setting Up Smart Count Preferences.
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Automatically approve item count variance within tolerance at the item, bin, and inventory status levels. For more information, see Setting Up Smart Count Preferences.
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Review item count records to approve, reject, or mark items for recount. For more information, see Working with Smart Count Review.
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Perform spot counting by picking any item for count. For more information, see Performing Inventory Count on Mobile Devices.
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Automatically increment the count quantity by one through tally scanning. For more information, see Item Count Features.
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Perform inventory counting during business hours without having to stop business operations. For more information, see Item Count Features.
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Scan GS1 bar codes to perform inventory count. For more information, see Scanning GS1 Bar Codes for Inventory Count.
For information about installing the SuiteApp and prerequisites, see Installing the Smart Count SuiteApp and Prerequisites.
To understand how the Smart Count SuiteApp works, see Using the Smart Count SuiteApp.
In addition, watch the following video to learn about the Smart Count SuiteApp.