Cycle Count Setup

[JasonMcD (Jason McDermott)]

Welcome to the group!

@MackC

We tried creating weekly periods but the cycle count schedule was asking us to count all 800+ B parts within the first period.
The C parts are also appearing frontloaded

I respect that you want this to work right, but do at least understand that

1. What you are seeing is very normal
2. I get the sense that not a lot of people have ever tried to conquer this
3. Most of us (like my company) just do the part selection manually (ish).

This was a good recent thread:

Using Epicor for Cycle Counting, some Questions

We have done full, physical inventories in the past and want to move to Epicor’s cycle counting to replace those starting next year. We average about 2700 SKUs in our inventory at any one time so our thinking is if we count 50-60 parts per week, one day each week, we should have almost a full inventory at the end of the year. I’ve set up ABC codes (30/60/90 days) and assigned them to our parts. I am having a struggle defining cycle periods. If I set my cycle period for a month and set 12 period…

Post 25 is where I explain what we currently do where I work. We count ALL axles one day and all windows the next day, etc. Nothing in the system can do that for us. But it is a really logical way to get a hold of the inventory.

We still use Cycle Count Maintenance and all of the other stuff. We just pick the parts with our own separate logic (using a dashboard to streamline it).

As for getting it all to work by the rules, you will still probably have to massage the part selection for a while. Yes, fine, let it pick the parts if you want, but then delete or move some/many of them to a different cycle if there are too many at once.