Development of Cycle Counting Monitoring Dashboard with Buffer Time Management for Cocoa Company

Abstract

Inventory control is an activity of managing the inventory inside the warehouse, inventory control ensures the company’s operational needs to be fulfilled on time, especially on a large company with high number of inventory. Therefore, a good monitoring system are needed to control the flow of items and ensures the condition of items physically. This research presents a case study of inventory control in a cocoa company. This research aims for inventory monitoring dashboard that could perform cycle counting which also implementing a specific concept in Theory of Constraints (TOC) which is Buffer Time Management, this concept applies buffers on a certain period to each item inside the warehouse. The cycle counting monitoring dashboard then can notify the user about the condition of each items inside the warehouse with color codes. The user then can schedule the items into stock capture sheets where the items will be counted when the company is performing cycle counting.