Real-world warehouse stocktaking comic showing the relatable challenges of counting inventory and cycle counts.

Humor in Inventory

Counting stock is genuinely funny sometimes, in a way that only people who've done it understand. We've been adding comics to the Yuneva site — real scenarios, not clip art of smiling warehouse workers. If you've ever sworn at a cycle count, some of these will hit close to home.

Supply chain integration illustration showing EDI, VAN, APIs, and 856 ASNs operating together across retail systems and trading partners.

API vs. EDI: Which Integration Wins in 2026?

Every year someone declares EDI dead. Every year the VAN invoice shows up anyway. APIs are great where they exist. But the 856 ASN isn't going anywhere as long as the big retailers still want it that way, and "integration strategy" mostly means running both stacks and paying two vendors. 2026 won't be the year one wins. It'll be the year we admit that.

Warehouse performance incentive illustration showing pickers optimizing for productivity metrics, bonuses, and KPI targets in ways that create unintended operational trade-offs.

Pay-for-Performance Models in Warehousing: Pros, Cons & Real Examples

Pay-for-performance always shows up as a clean slide. Units per hour, a multiplier, a bonus tier. Sign here. Then the floor reads the formula and optimizes against it. Small SKUs first. Skip the pallet picks. Mispicks become someone else's KPI. Three quarters in, you're rewriting the rules faster than the pickers can game them. It's not that incentives don't work. It's that they work exactly as written, and what's written is usually a draft.

Omnichannel retail illustration showing BOPIS, BORIS, and ship-from-store orders competing for shared inventory while system stock levels differ from physical store stock.

BOPIS, BORIS, and Ship-from-Store: A Cheat Sheet

BOPIS, BORIS, Ship-from-Store. Three acronyms, one inventory pool, and a website that doesn't know the last unit got picked up by a customer six minutes ago. The omnichannel cheat sheet is the easy part. The hard part is that every channel reads from the same number, and that number is usually wrong. If your store associates have stopped trusting the system and started walking the floor before confirming orders, you already know which acronym is the real problem.

an inventory manager learns SOX, GAAP and IFRS each want a different number for the same pallet.

SOX, GAAP, IFRS: A Quick Primer for Inventory Managers

Nobody becomes an inventory manager to learn accounting standards. Then the auditor arrives with three of them. SOX wants every count signed, dated and approved, which is fine until you notice every approval says Greg, and Greg retired in March. GAAP wants obsolete stock written down, and nobody can define obsolete while the 2014 stock still sells. IFRS rules out LIFO, because the parent company isn’t American, even if you are. One pallet. Three standards. Three different numbers, all correct.

Warehouse comic: a team preps for its first inventory audit and finds four SKU lists, no written procedure and Dave off sick.

Legacy Systems in the Warehouse: Migrate, Modernize, or Leave Alone?

Every warehouse has one. The system nobody wants to touch, nobody fully understands, and nobody can replace without an eighteen-month project plan and a small fortune. So we modernize the edges. Add a portal. Wrap an API around it. Pretend the AS/400 in the back isn't quietly running receiving for half the network. Gary, wherever you are, thank you for your service

Customs clearance illustration showing a delayed container held up by documentation issues, with an outdated purchase order and changing sourcing decisions adding further complications.

Six Things That Delay Customs Clearance (and How to Avoid Them)

Every customs delay article lists the same six things. Wrong HS code. Mismatched invoice. Missing certificate of origin. Vague descriptions. Random exam. Late duty payment. The articles never mention the seventh thing, which is that by the time the container clears, the PO it was attached to has already been cancelled, re-sourced, or quietly forgotten about by someone who left the company. Anyway. Tuesday.

Warehouse automation systems including AS/RS, AMRs, and AGVs operating alongside pickers, highlighting the importance of choosing technology that fits actual warehouse workflows.

Preparing for Your First External Inventory Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide

Every first audit starts with a checklist and the confidence of someone who hasn’t read it yet. Print the SKU master list, then find out there are four. Reconcile the system with the floor, where 12 and 47 are apparently the same number. Write down the count procedure, which until now has lived entirely in Dave’s head. The auditor won’t ask how good Dave is. They’ll ask to see it in writing, on the one morning Dave calls in sick.

Goods-to-person and person-to-goods warehouse automation illustration showing automated systems and workers relying on practical knowledge of broken storage locations.

Goods-to-Person vs. Person-to-Goods: A Cheat Sheet

Every G2P pitch deck has the same chart: a tidy line going up and to the right. Every P2G ops floor has the same chart: a tired guy named Dave who knows which slot is broken and quietly skips it. The automation question isn't G2P or P2G. It's whether the system knows what Dave knows.

Warehouse audit scene showing recurring inventory red flags, missing institutional knowledge, and staff struggling to explain unresolved issues from previous audits.

Seven Compliance Red Flags Auditors Look For

Audit week has a rhythm. The auditor points, you shrug, somebody mentions a person who left in 2022, and everyone agrees to circle back after lunch. The red flags are never a surprise. They're the same ones from last year, plus one new one because someone got creative with a pick face. If your audit prep is mostly remembering what 'admin' used to do, that's the finding.

Warehouse claims illustration showing damaged pallets, documentation forms, photos, and a claims process that reduces detailed incident information to generic categories.

Insurance Claims on Lost/Damaged Stock: A Checklist

Every warehouse has a claims folder. Every claims folder has a story the form can't hold. The damage was specific. The cause was specific. The number of units was almost specific. By the time it's in the portal, it's a checkbox next to "other" and a photo of a pallet from four angles that nobody will ever open. The checklist isn't the problem. The checklist is just where the truth goes to get smaller.