title: High-performance cycle counting.
abstract: This article describes how to perform cycle counting to measure inventory record accuracy and to find errors in inventory records--and to fix the causes of those errors. Cycle counting is an efficient way of accomplishing these two objectives. The article describes various inventory counting methods and their advantages and disadvantages.
authors.affiliation: Oliver Wight Companies, Portland, OR, USA.
authors.forename: L W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007449:Investments; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011786:Quality Control; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States