Pursuing Excellence helps operating leaders find why inventory records and physical stock disagree, restore control of inventory movements, and build routines that keep the records reliable. Warren Stout leads the work across warehouse processes, ERP and WMS transactions, ownership, and management reporting. Based in Houston, PX serves clients nationwide.
A count can correct a balance. Lasting accuracy also requires understanding how the error occurred. When purchasing, customer service, warehouse teams, and finance work from different numbers, the consequences spread into availability, working capital, fulfillment, and customer trust.
The scope follows the operating evidence, from a targeted inventory diagnostic to implementation support and sustained management routines.
Compare physical counts, location records, units of measure, stock status, and inventory transactions. Define how accuracy will be measured and identify the items, locations, and movements carrying the greatest exposure.
Follow receiving, putaway, replenishment, picking, shipping, transfers, returns, and adjustments. Separate process failures from master-data issues, system configuration, integration timing, and unclear accountability.
Build cycle-count routines, transaction standards, location discipline, adjustment approvals, and exception ownership. Coordinate changes with warehouse leaders, finance, IT, and the existing system partner.
Review availability, stockouts, aging, excess stock, and replenishment decisions against a dependable baseline. Establish an operating scorecard and a review cadence that makes recurring problems visible.
An agreed scope defines the deliverables, accountable owners, and evidence required to show that controls are working.
Warren’s operating experience connects warehouse execution, inventory governance, systems change, and service recovery. That perspective helps the team address the decisions and daily routines behind the numbers.
Read the inventory governance case studyThe linked case describes its own engagement and context. Results vary with the scope and operating conditions.
Common issues include unreliable stock records, recurring adjustments, weak cycle counting, misplaced stock, uncontrolled returns and transfers, and gaps between warehouse activity and ERP or WMS records. The diagnostic determines which issues are driving the business impact.
That decision follows the evidence. Existing software may support the required controls once data, configuration, workflows, and ownership are corrected. If a capability gap remains, PX can help define requirements and evaluate the options.
Yes. Start by checking whether availability and demand data are reliable, then examine replenishment settings, lead times, purchasing decisions, and stock aging. The work separates record-accuracy problems from planning and policy problems.
No. Pursuing Excellence is based in Houston and serves clients nationwide. The engagement determines which activities need on-site observation and which can be completed remotely.
Bring a description of the inventory issue, the systems and locations involved, and the operational or financial impact. Useful later evidence may include count results, adjustment history, transaction samples, stock aging, and existing procedures. No complete data package is required to start the conversation.
Start with a focused 30-minute conversation about the issue, the value at stake, and the right next step.
