What is a 'rapid entry?

The Rapid entry is where we not only SHOW you the value, we assume that there was no shrinkage, so we enter the value for you so you can silently carry on without doing anything extra.

While this saves time with truly fastidious employees, others will look at it as saving hard work - like actually counting and entering the count. We have several customers who claim this is a true problem for many of their counters that are more than happy to just spot count a few and leave the rest uncounted but marked as counted.

So choosing 'rapid entry' means knowing your staff well enough, or being willing to let them decide when to really count carefully.

This tends also to propagate errors for longer. Consider the case where there is a box of parts 'up higher', and this was missed in the last count (likely causing a large shrinkage), Rapid entry will encourage your counters to do a quick count, see it matches or is close, and not look further. The mistake then is never caught until some day when 'the other box' is found - and of course, when you run low on this part - no one will even go looking for the other box because they 'know' there are no other to be found - so it may never be found because the only people who see that box are looking for something else and don't even know that the box is 'not in inventory'.

Rapid entry is the opposite extreme to blind count. See also Blind Count