Initial physical inventory

We recommend that, before going live, you run an initial physical inventory. An initial physical inventory requires you shut down your TWL warehouse and involves a four-wall count of everything in your TWL warehouse, including empty locations. Because TWL is responsible for the product quantities, you must use the counting functions in TWL rather than the Distribution SX.e system counting functions.

When the results of the physical inventory are sent to the Distribution SX.e system, the quantities entered during the physical count are considered to be the true quantity and existing discrepancies are cleared. Running an initial physical inventory enables TWL to begin operations with a clean slate and the inventory quantities on the two systems are synchronized.

Starting your TWL installation with accurate data is vital to the success of refining the information contained in your database. In order to accomplish starting with accurate data, you must take an initial physical inventory.