Tire Audit to Eliminate Inventory Inconsistencies
One of the nation’s leading multi-brand commercial tire specialist, offering the best choice of tires for every fleet, required the support of RGIS. The company offers a nationwide service which includes roadside support, with over 550 skilled technicians.
REQUIREMENT
The fleet tire management specialists needed a solution to identify inventory inconsistencies which were resulting in unfulfilled orders.
- The company required RGIS to provide the following:
- National coverage to manage 40 locations
- Count all tires at each location
- Count all 100 ranges
- Identify variances
SOLUTION
The fleet tire management specialists partnered with RGIS to complete the inventory inconsistencies project, and RGIS provided the following:
- Scheduled a team of six experienced RGIS auditors per site
- Products were identified by serial numbers
- Wall-to-wall count completed at each site
RESULTS
The fleet tire management specialists found by outsourcing the inventory inconsistencies project to RGIS, the following results were achieved:
- Up to 2,000 sets of tires were accurately recorded per day
- Validated numbers against the sites own inventory records via a paper recorded inventory
- Any variances were investigated and approved before RGIS left the site
- The fleet tire management specialists were then able to understand for first time the actual inventory position for accounting purposes
- Ensured more customer orders were completed correctly first time, by having the correct tires in stock to complete the orders