Five branches, one fastener aisle problem
Anita Park · General manager, five-location packaging wholesaler · Multi-Location Inventory Audit
Anita’s group had grown from a single Taoyuan warehouse to five stocked branches in under four years. Sales were healthy; stock meetings were not. Each branch reported different on-hand figures for the same high-volume carton sizes, and weekly transfers felt like guesswork.
Utilitybranchcore’s audit spent two days in the central warehouse and half-days at three branches. The team traced the mismatch to mixed pack definitions and informal “borrow” habits between neighboring branches that never hit a transfer ticket.
The 90-day plan focused on pack-size labeling, a same-weekday count window, and a short exception log reviewed jointly by warehouse and branch leads. Anita notes the first month felt bureaucratic to floor staff, but by the second month Friday fire drills for missing cartons dropped enough that she kept the cadence without consultant presence.