What is inventory accuracy and how is it measured?

Inventory accuracy is how closely the recorded stock matches what is physically there, measured by counting a sample and comparing. The stricter measure counts a SKU location as accurate only when the count matches exactly, with no netting of overages against shortages across the warehouse, which can hide offsetting errors.

Netting is what makes a bad warehouse look fine. Two SKUs wrong by fifty units in opposite directions net to zero and read as perfect accuracy while both are unsellable at the quantity the system claims.

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