Therefore, you'd want the system to be reset or written to zero in that location for the other products that you did not scan. So it goes under the premise that you can't scan something that you don't find. And if we didn't find anything else, we want the entire system to think that there's nothing else in that location. And we wanted to go into that location and only scan what we found.
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And if we say that we want it to be an audit type or write zeros, then in that case, if we were to go into this location, A5, and we scan the black cards, and we count two of them, and we stop right there and we have the write zero setting turned on, then in that case, if we close out, it will actually, since we did not scan the white cards, it will set these two to zero because we didn't scan them because we were in audit mode. Now, if we were doing an audit, which means we're gonna write zeros, what does that mean? So it's a specific mode that we could put that stock take in the scanner into. If you don't scan it, then you didn't stock take it, or you did not audit that particular part, all right? So that's the definition of kind of a cycle count. So cycle counts are very specific to what you scan in that location. So we did not audit the white ones if we don't scan them. It will not say anything about the two white ones.
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Well, when we upload that transaction if we can two black cards and that's all, it's going to update and confirm that there was only two black in A5. And we only scan in that cycle count only the black ones. So the definition of a cycle count is gonna, basically, be it's related specifically to a part number and to a specific sub-location. So if we were to look at A5, A5 has both two black cards and two white cards in it. So when you look right here in the stock here, we're looking at two white cards are actually located in A5. So, for instance, if there happened to be red cards in the very same location, A05, okay, if there happened to be red ones, but if you also notice, there are all.but that's kind of a bad example. Now, if there happened to be something else in that location, a cycle count mode would not reset that value of something else in that location. Now, if we conclude our stock take, and we only counted the two items at A05, then that would be the end of the stock take. Then, we would be scanning the black PVC carts that we find in that location. So when we go to the cycle count, we would be scanning A05 as a sub-location. So everything is relative to the stock location, or the sub-location where it's being stored. So if I go into the warehouse and I find this location, A05, and I scan the barcode for this black PVC cart, it's only auditing at this A5 location only. So when we say, "A cycle count," stock takes are relative to the sub-location, or the stock location when you're doing your counting. So in other words, if you take a look here on the screen, we have these black PVC cards, okay? And there is physically on hand four of them, but notice that they're in two different locations. And you're, basically, only auditing what you scan. When we say, "Cycle count," it's basically where you would go into a location. And this will kinda give you a better understanding of conducting stock takes with a scanner.
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But to kinda give you an overview of the differences, let's take a look at the stock, the home screen here in Finale.
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So I'll cover this in a little bit more in detail, individually, in separate videos where I'll go through how to handle a basic cycle count, and how to handle an audit type of write zeros in another video in detail. So depending on the settings that you set in the scanner, you can actually conduct a stock take in two different ways. Another way that we would refer to it is maybe doing an audit, or where you can write zeros. One, we refer to as basic or kinda just like a cycle count. The handheld scanner supports two modes of conducting stock takes with a scanner. We're gonna introduce a few may be different topics or clarities in taking stock takes. In this quick video, we're going to talk about conducting stock takes with a scanner.