Many retailers have reported that manual inventory counting processes are typically only 65%-70% accurate at the sales floor level.

The six major causes of inventory inaccuracy, which can lead to out-of-stock items or excess inventory, are:

1. Incorrect manual adjustments by personnel
2. Pilfered products
3. Damaged or spoiled products not recorded as such
4. Returned products not properly accounted for
5. Incorrect shipments from distribution centers
6. Cashier error / theft

As a result of inventory inaccuracy, systems may order unnecessary products or fail to order essential products that cause retailers decreased profitability. Sensormatic item-level intelligent solutions are designed to improve the accuracies associated with item location versus product flow through a stage process or asset tracking process. Our unique ability to capture item level intelligence in a high density environment of items carrying RFID date offers retailer efficiencies that tie directly to profitability and increased revenues.