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Stocktaking · Regular Counts, Books Match Reality

Is your book stock ≠ your actual stock? Discrepancies are inevitable at month-end and year-end. SBK's stocktaking module digitalizes the entire workflow — create a stocktake task → count by warehouse and category → enter actual counts → approve discrepancies → automatically adjust the books — bidding farewell to copying numbers in Excel.

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stocktaking methods
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manual transcription
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discrepancies traceable
Capabilities

Fully Automated from Stocktake Task to Discrepancy Adjustment

Supports three modes — full count, sample count and dynamic cycle count — with a complete audit trail for every discrepancy adjustment

📋 Stocktake Task Creation

Filter by warehouse, category or location to generate a stocktake worksheet, and assign a stocktake owner and deadline

🎯 Full / Sample / Cycle Count

Month-end full counts, quarterly sample counts and ABC key-item cycle counts — choose from three modes as needed

📱 Mobile Barcode Counting

Warehouse staff scan product barcodes / location codes with a phone and enter actual counts directly — no PC required

Automatic Discrepancy Detection

Actual counts vs book figures are compared automatically — overages shown in red, shortages in yellow, at a glance

📝 Discrepancy Approval Flow

Discrepancy adjustment orders go through an approval flow, confirmed step by step by the warehouse supervisor → finance lead, preventing unauthorized write-offs

🔁 Automatic Book Adjustment

Once approved, an adjustment order is generated automatically, book stock is updated in sync, and the financial gain/loss is posted automatically

ims.shangbangke.com/stocktake/createPD-20240520
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Generate Worksheet
Scan CountDispatch
Ningbo Main · Zone A
Bearings + Flanges
Quarterly full count
Chen Q. / Liu F. (by location)

Worksheet (book figures auto-pulled)

SKUProduct / LocationBookLast
SK-1108Bearing · A-04-0880002-15
SK-3201Flange · A-02-1579502-15
SK-7740Gear Motor · A-07-034002-15

Generate the Stocktake Worksheet in One Click — No Printing Excel

Select the warehouse and category scope, and the system automatically pulls the current book stock to generate a stocktake worksheet. Warehouse staff scan with a phone to fill in counts — no need to print paper forms and re-enter the numbers afterward.

  • Multi-dimensional scoping by warehouse / category / location
  • Worksheet auto-pulls book figures + last stocktake date
  • Collaborative counting: split by location across different counters
  • Order locking during the count: avoid inbounds/outbounds while counting
ims.shangbangke.com/stocktake/diffDiff Approval
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Discrepancy Approval
ReasonsGen Adjust
SKUBook / Counted · ReasonDiffResult
SK-3201795 / 798 · missed entry+3Overage
SK-774040 / 38 · damage-2Shortage
SK-5520120 / 96 · loss, pending-24Over Limit

SK-5520 Over-Threshold Approval

WH Head
Approved
Finance
Reviewing
GM
Pending

Discrepancy Approval: Overages and Shortages Clearly Attributed to a Person

Discrepancies above a threshold (e.g. 5% or ¥1,000) must record a reason (damage, loss, bookkeeping error, sampling variance, etc.) and go through an approval flow. A book adjustment order is generated only after approval, eliminating the gray area of "unauthorized write-offs".

  • Configurable discrepancy threshold, forcing approval when exceeded
  • Mandatory discrepancy reasons, classified and aggregated for review
  • Multi-level approval: warehouse head → finance → general manager
  • Adjustment orders map one-to-one with stocktake orders, fully traceable
Use Cases

Stocktaking Cadence for Businesses of Different Sizes

A Retailer with ¥100M Annual Sales

Counts all SKUs at every month-end. Three warehouse staff scan separately with phones, completing in half a day what once took 2 days.

A Manufacturer Doing Quarterly Sample Counts

By ABC classification, A-class (top 20% by value) counted monthly, B-class quarterly, C-class annually — focusing key resources on the critical items.

A Multi-Warehouse Chain Store

The main warehouse + 8 store branches count in sync, with HQ seeing each store's discrepancy rate in real time to spot weakly managed stores.

A High-Turnover Supermarket Doing Cycle Counts

Counts 1/30 of SKUs each day, cycling through in a month without disrupting daily inbounds/outbounds, while continuously keeping books aligned with reality.

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