The Importance of Inventory Accuracy: Highlight 3

Because customer experience these days has become you know, a buzzword term for lack of a better word across the retail industry. Right? Everyone's looking at how do we improve the customer how do we give customers the best experience whether it be online in store, a mixture of the two? And so having inventory accuracy issues certainly elevates that that elevates the problem. Right? Because like you mentioned, an an upset customer because you don't have -- Right. -- the shirt that they ordered. All of a sudden, this is now a larger issue than just inventory accuracy problems that they would have normally experienced. Like you said, a month after accounting anyways, now this is an elevated issue that that is a bigger problem for retailers to try to solve. It's a bigger problem. So one one response could be Well, I'm gonna elevate my buffer stock. Right? So whereas, typically, I would want a minimum minimum quantity the store of three or five or whatever the retailer might set as a buffer stock. In order to absorb this potential inventory and accuracy, I'm going to make that six or seven So what that means is they're now carrying more inventory in the store. The cost goes up. So I think there's a trade off between do I perform more inventory counts more frequently? And there's a cost to that, obviously, in order to maintain a higher level of inventory accuracy Or do I change my the way I manage my inventory in my supply chain and have more inventory in the store rather than the the DC or or might manufacture room.