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.

Warehouse fraud illustration showing suspicious inventory adjustments, voids, overrides, and repeated activity linked to the same user and shift.

Fraud in the Warehouse: How to Spot It Before It Spots You

Warehouse fraud is rarely a mystery. It's usually a person, a pattern, and a process that lets both go unchecked. The hard part isn't spotting it. The hard part is that someone usually did spot it, two years ago, and nothing happened. If your adjustments, voids, and overrides all trace back to the same login on the same shift — that's not a coincidence.

ERP, WMS, and inventory management systems showing different inventory records and timestamps for finance, operations, and warehouse pickers.

ERP vs. WMS vs. IMS: Who Does What?

ERP knows what you own. WMS knows where it is. IMS knows what's actually on the shelf. In theory. In practice, each system has its own version of the truth, and the right answer depends entirely on whose meeting you're in. Finance gets one number. Ops gets another. The picker holding the box gets a third. Nobody's lying. They're just all looking at slightly different timestamps.

Warehouse benchmarking illustration showing a company appearing to match industry averages while uncounted returns distort the inventory data.

Returns Rate Benchmarks by Industry

Every benchmark deck I've ever seen has the same chart: a tidy industry average, and a tidy little dot showing the company landing right on it. Nobody asks how the dot got there. The dot got there because someone in receiving stopped scanning returns at lunch. The benchmark isn't wrong. It's just measuring what got counted, not what came back.

Warehouse automation illustration showing inaccurate WMS inventory data causing errors in cycle counts, putaway, replenishment, and order picking.

Six Warehouse Tasks You Can Automate This Quarter

Every quarter a deck shows up with six tasks to automate. Cycle counts. Put away. Replenishment. ASN matching. The list is always good. The problem is never the list. The problem is the slot the WMS swears holds 400 units is actually a fire extinguisher, and we've been picking from it on paper since March. Automate the data first. Then automate the tasks.

Warehouse comic: a picker quits over a dead scanner and a new rota, and HR’s seven ways to cut turnover start with pizza.

Seven Ways to Reduce Warehouse Staff Turnover

Ask anyone leaving a warehouse why they’re going and you’ll hear the same short list. A scanner that only works after lunch. A rota that changes midweek. Training the fourth new starter of the month, who’ll leave before finding out where the tape lives. Then HR turns the list into seven ways to reduce turnover. Way one is pizza on Fridays. Way two is bigger pizza. Nobody fixes the scanner, because the scanner was never on the slide.

B2B warehouse fulfillment illustration showing workers walking long distances to pick small e-commerce orders from pallet-oriented storage racks.

E-Commerce Warehouses Need a Different Layout Than You Think

A B2B warehouse running ecommerce orders is just a really long hallway with a scanner at the end. The racks were built for pallet pulls. The orders are now one lipstick and a phone case. Nobody's getting budget to retrofit, so the picker walks. And walks. The layout problem isn't a layout problem. It's a decade of decisions that nobody wants to undo.

Cold chain warehouse illustration showing pharmaceuticals, ice cream, and flowers requiring controlled temperatures, FEFO rotation, and reliable temperature monitoring.

Vaccines, Ice Cream & Flowers: What They Have in Common

Cold chain doesn't care what's in the box. A vial of mRNA, a pallet of Ben & Jerry's, and a shipment of Dutch tulips all want the same thing: a tight temperature window, FEFO rotation, and a logger that didn't flatline somewhere between Rotterdam and your dock. The SKUs look nothing alike on the invoice. On the warehouse floor they're the same problem.

Cold chain temperature excursion scenario showing workers searching for procedures, SKU information, and reliable temperature probes during a critical response window.

Temperature Excursion Alerts: What to Do in the First 15 Minutes

The first 15 minutes of a temperature excursion are supposed to be a procedure. In practice they're a scavenger hunt for the binder, the SKU list, and a probe that agrees with the sensor. By the time anyone's ready to act, the window's closed and the paperwork starts.

Cold chain inventory management illustration showing temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals, biologics, chemicals, cosmetics, and film at risk from inventory errors.

Five Products That Absolutely Need Cold Chain (Beyond Food)

Most people think cold chain starts and ends at groceries. It doesn't. Pharmaceuticals, biologics, chemicals, cosmetics, and film all need temperature control — and one bad count can cost you the whole batch.Here's what's actually at stake when cold chain inventory goes wrong.

Cold chain warehouse comic showing the gap between documented SOPs and the practical knowledge workers use to manage temperature-controlled inventory.

Cold Chain 101: A Beginner's Checklist

Every cold chain SOP I've ever read is beautiful. Every cold chain operation I've ever walked is held together by one guy named Dale who knows which thermometer actually works. The checklist on the wall and the checklist in people's heads are usually two different documents. The second one is longer.