As with Physical Inventory, functions for conducting cycle counts are provided at both the Administrative PC and the hand-held. Please refer to Hand-Held Operations: Cycle Count and Physical Inventory for a discussion of the hand-helds' role.

Cycle counts are scheduled when an Access 1000 function adds a cycle count entry, along with the location to be counted, to the system's schedule of work.

Since Access 1000 maintains strict inventory counts by location, for locations with more than one SKU, all SKUs at the location must be counted for the count to be valid. This rule allows Access 1000 to discover the discrepancy caused when all quantity of an SKU is missing from a location.

Location cycle counts are automatically scheduled when a hand-held operator finds an inventory discrepancy during quarantine, put-away, move and pick operations.

For regularly scheduled cycle counts, the supervisor can direct Access 1000 to schedule cycle counts for groups of locations by inputting the beginning and ending locations of the desired location range.

The system is also able to schedule cycle counts after receiving a list of product numbers which need to be counted. In scheduling the counts, it checks to find all locations holding the product numbers specified. Then all SKUs in each location must be counted to complete the cycle count action.

The results of the cycle counting action are stored in the Physical Table, which is kept up-to-date based on inventory changes while the warehouse is working. The supervisor can see the Physical Table on the screen of the Administrative PC, or it can be printed, to review the validity of the results. One, two, or three counts will be reported for each SKU at each location counted, depending on how many times the location had to be counted before it could be reconciled.

The supervisor has the ability to delete the results of the cycle count from the Physical table when he/she feels the data is invalid. Once the table is considered acceptable, the supervisor clicks the "Make Adjustments" selection, and Access 1000 adjusts inventory, reports adjustments to the Business System and prints the adjustment report.