A leading Spanish retailer in the European beauty industry, with operations and stores in all European countries, required RGIS to complete a full inventory of all stock held in their central warehouse.

REQUIREMENT
The beauty retailer partnered with RGIS to understand what stock they held within their central warehouse in Spain:

• They chose RGIS as they were the current vendor of their retail stores
• A tight timeline was required from Friday to Sunday – this was to prevent the logistics and operations of the warehouse being impacted during the working week
• They required the reporting of accurate information of stock levels at all locations within the warehouse

SOLUTION
RGIS worked with the beauty retailer to complete a full wall-to-wall count of the central warehouse:

• RGIS provided over 80 trained staff, including an experienced Supervisor and six Team Leaders over three days (Friday to Sunday), all with experience in warehouse environments – picking, pallets, bins, boxes, automatic wardrobes and bands
• RGIS employees recounted, checked and/or audited around 20% of the inventory
• The recount was completed by RGIS employees, whilst the checking and auditing was completed by the customer's own staff
• An external auditing company was also present at the inventory wall-to-wall count, and conducted further checks to confirm the accuracy of the count

RESULTS
The beauty retailer found working with RGIS gave them:

• An understanding of their stock items and their locations within the warehouse
• Confidence that the data received was now accurate, and validated by internal and external checks completed throughout the process
• The ability to redistribute stock items out to stores where required
• Satisfaction that the count was completed within the required time frame