Retail | Cycle Counts - Inventory

Cycle counts is where you can streamline your inventory management to adjust your inventory quantities quickly and easily in both BLAZE & your compliance system.

Cycle Counts are meant to count small batches of your products to stay on top of inventory counts throughout the year. Utilize Cycle Counts to count and reconcile a few shelves at a time, or perhaps a few Cycle Counts to help reconcile an entire Category of products.

• Example 1: Count shelves 1,2 & 3 of your Vapes. Tag that shelf (shelves) with the completed Cycle Count number for reference as to what has already been counted. Then start another Cycle Count for shelves 4, 5, & 6.
• Example 2: Utilize Cycle Counts to track the inventory of a Driver's Kit. Compare what was transferred to what comes back to the shop to look for any discrepancies.
• Example 3: Utilize Cycle Counts to prepare for an entire Inventory. Counting shelves and categories throughout the month / year will help get a more accurate full inventory count.

Navigate to app.blaze.me and login with your BLAZE credentials. 

1. On the left hand navigation menu go to Inventory > Cycle Counts
2. Click the top right button 'New Cycle Count' to start. 

3. Modal will pop-up with a couple options:

• Inventory Location: Select the specific inventory from the dropdown. 
• Force Scan:
  • Enabled - does not allow for manual editing of inventory *(Audit Fields) counts.
  • Disabled - does allow for manual editing of inventory *(Audit Fields) counts.
• Blind Count:
  • Enabled - Blind Count will hide the expected quantity and differences
    • Enter quantity by scanning or manual entry depending on the Force Scan setting. 
  • Disabled - Will show expected quantity and differences in the UI.
    • Enter quantity by scanning or manual entry depending on the Force Scan setting. 

• Pre-populate Batches: Only use this for small inventory locations, such as driver kits with less than 100 Batches.
  
  • Enabled - Will pre-populate all batches with a quantity < 0 from the selected inventory
  • Disabled - User will need to scan to populate items

4. After an option from above is selected you will see a new modal pop-up with the option to select cycle count details.

• Internal Reason: This is for internal BLAZE only reason for adjustments
• Compliance Adjustment: This will be the option to select if you wish to adjust with your compliance system.
  • Do not adjust Metrc or Biotrack - If selected will only adjust BLAZE inventory.
  • Adjust by Difference: This will adjust the Metrc package based on the "difference" between the current quantity to the actual quantity.
    *Intended for purposes if your current inventory does NOT equal your Metrc Inventory. This could be due to transactions not being submitted to Metrc.
  • Adjust by Actual Inventory - If selected will adjust both BLAZE and your compliance system by the actual value entered. 
• Compliance Reason: Select a compliance reason for the adjustment from the dropdown
• Notes: Enter notes for internal record purposes