Cycle counting means checking stock continuously—not once a year Most warehouses pick a counting method early on and never revisit it. The operation grows, SKU count doubles, and they're still running the same full physical they ran when they had a single dock door and twelve employees. That mismatch is where shrink hides. A full physical count stops the building. Everything freezes — receiving, shipping, picks — while your team walks every slot and reconciles every discrepan

Your ERP says 144 units. Your WMS says 137. Your Shopify store sold 6 yesterday and the order hasn't hit your system yet. Which number do you pick when a customer calls asking if something is in stock? Most teams just... pick one and hope. That's not a process, that's a prayer. The fantasy of a "unified inventory view" sounds simple. One number, everywhere, always current. The reality is that your ERP was built to manage financial transactions, your WMS was built to move prod