It happens sometimes, where Physical Parts Inventory counts vs. Accounting (known as Inventory Reconciliation) doesn’t line up.

The first step is for the parts manager to go back, get all his documents together, review line by line, and re-total his numbers. If the problem exists still where Parts Physical and Accounting still don’t line up, the best way is to look for items missing. This is more common than you think.

In the next two posts, we’ll give you a list of the “most” common places to pull numbers from to do Inventory Reconciliation.