Pick Up Physical Performing the Count

The Pick-Up Physical count process is very simple. A item’s ‘Item Number’ should be entered within a text document, one Item Number per line.

A text Document can be created with any of Microsoft's programs included with Windows, NotePad, WordPad or Word. Just remember to save the file as a TEXT (.TXT) file, not a .DOC file.

The text document does not have to be given a special name (however, a name like PUCount100104.txt is suggested, where the numbers are the date of the physical). This naming convention makes it easier to organize and find the file later.

The contents of the document may look like this:

123011
123412
123567
123765

To create a text documents in Windows, simply right click on your desktop & select NEW, then TEXT DOCUMENT. Provide a name, double click the new Icon & start entering the Item Numbers one per line.

Entry of the Item Numbers can be manually, or via an attached scanner (scans may be used when bar-coded item numbers are on the tags) or use a portable scanner.

The data must be checked for errors then imported into ProfitSystem©. See Pick-Up Physical - Apply the count topic for more information.