Know what you have, where it is, and when it moves Bad stock numbers don't come from laziness. They come from clipboards, spreadsheets that are three days out of date, and count sheets that someone filled in from memory because the scanner died in aisle 9. The gap between what your system says you have and what's actually on the rack is where shrink hides, where stockouts happen, and where your team loses an hour every Tuesday morning reconciling numbers that should never hav