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I don't understand how this works, but shouldn't it be as simple as NumAvailable = NumIn - NumSold - NumDamaged? NumSold and NumIn are ofc eady to keep track o
by karmanyaahm 5y ago
I don't understand how this works, but shouldn't it be as simple as NumAvailable = NumIn - NumSold - NumDamaged?
NumSold and NumIn are ofc eady to keep track of, and NumDamaged could just be like a portable barcode scanning device that the staff scans with whenever putting away a broken item.
- jamincan 5y agoNumStolen, NumScannedAsOneThingButActuallyAnother, NumLost...
- capitainenemo 5y agoStolen, moved around in store by customer, put in the front special deal display..
- ghaff 5y agoA lot of stores used to do things like close for part of a day to do inventory. I assume there is still some syncing up during the night or whatever. But I also assume that, as with many things, many stores have probably been willing to trade off a degree of accuracy for reduced costs.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoThey still do, but it usually only happens a few times per year.
- michael1999 5y agoYou forgot NumStolen, NumPickedUpAndDroppedElsewhere, and NumEatenBySquirrels. Shrinkage is relentless.
- ethbr0 5y agoIf the world were a deterministic computer system, yes. It is not. For instance, NumIn would indicate how many received at the store, no? But what then? It needs to physically exist somewhere. The display? Overflowing onto the overhead? Overflowing onto the next overhead over? Pushed to the back of the overhead behind something else? Kept in the back because there's no room anywhere? For 10,000+ different products or so per store.
- tapatio 5y agoAnd numStolen.