Schedule Automatic Cycle Counts

To schedule automatic schedule cycle counts, you must first define the schedules fields on the Create Cycle Counts page. Then, you can process the cycle count.

Define Schedules

Access the Create Cycle Counts page. Then, define the fields in the Schedules region of the Define Schedules and Approvals step as follows.

1. From the Inventory Management work area, select the Create Cycle Counts task.

2. On the Create Cycle Counts page, select the Automatically schedule check box.

3. In the Frequency field, specify the frequency of scheduling.

   Frequency determines how frequent a count schedule is generated. If the frequency is weekly, then a count schedule is generated including all items that are due for counting in the next one week. If the frequency is daily, then one count schedule is generated everyday and the schedule includes only those items that are due for counting that day. If the frequency is by period, 13 periods are used in the calculation to generate count sequences.

4. In the Workday Schedule field, enter the calendar to use for scheduling.

   Values for the Last Scheduled Date and Next Scheduled Date fields populate automatically by the scheduling program.

Process Cycle Count

You can process the cycle count that you just set up in three different ways:

• Complete these steps from the Manage Cycle Counts page.

  1. On the Manage Cycle Counts page, select Generate Count Schedules from the Actions menu. This runs the Generate Count Schedules process (InvCcGenerateCountSchedulesJob).

  2. After completion, select Generate Count Sequences from the Actions menu. This runs the Generate Count Sequences process (InvCcGenerateCountSequencesJob).

  3. After the completion of both processes, navigate to the Counts Overview page where you can now see a value in the Count Sequences to Record field.

• Run the two scheduled processes from the Scheduled Processes work area.

  1. From the Scheduled Processed work area, run the Generate Count Schedules process.

  2. From the Scheduled Processed work area, run the Generate Count Sequences process.

  Note: You must schedule these processes to run simultaneously and at the same frequency defined in the Schedules section of the Cycle Count Definition field. For example, if the value for the cycle count definition frequency is Daily, you must schedule these two processes to run daily as well.

• Run the full cycle count job set from the Scheduled Processes work area. This job set runs three sequential scheduled processes:

  • Generate Count Schedules

  • Generate Count Sequences

  • Cycle Count Listing Report