Inventory base versus what the night crew actually counts

I do not audit a warehouse. I sample. Ten lots, twenty if the cage is large, taken from the inventory base the clerk actually uses that morning — the printout, the book, or the screen. Then we walk.

The disagreements have a grain. In Tbilisi the common one is a lot already on a Kutaisi truck while the base still shows it in hold. Behind Poti it is the reverse: the base released a lot that is still locked in bond because nobody walked that far. Both look like “accuracy problems” in a meeting. On the floor they are different rooms.

A monitoring brief should name the lot, the room, and the claim. It should not offer a sermon about discipline. Night crews already count. They need to know which lots the day book is still pretending. If you want a full stocktake, hire a stocktake. Our sample is a torch, not a flood.