The goods received note, the issue note and the stock count, in the same place the work happens.
KIM 4 Industry is the field operations platform, from the job done in the field to the record that closes it. KIM for Logistics keeps track of materials from receipt to consumption and transfer, with the documents that confirm each step.
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A pile of delivery notes and a spreadsheet that disagrees with the shelf.
The stores manager knows the stock better than the system does. That is a problem rather than a compliment. What he knows is not what the company can prove, and it leaves with him at five o’clock.
The gap is never one big error. It is a seal used on a Friday, a tool lent to another location, a delivery booked under the wrong cost center. Each one is small and unrecorded, and they all surface together at month end.
What goes missingEverything that moved without a document.
- Consumption nobody booked. The material went into the job; the paperwork did not follow it.
- Tools that exist but cannot be found. At another location, in a van, with someone who left.
- The gap between the shelf and the ledger. Discovered at the count, explained two weeks later.
- Inspection dates that passed. Found during an audit rather than before it.
Scan the tag. The document follows.
- 01goods in, with the goods received note
- 02the issue note, at the moment of use
- 03the stock count, without stopping the work
- 04tools traced by tag, wherever they went
- 05early warnings: inspection, metrology, calibration
The person checks and confirms. A write-off carries its own document rather than sitting as a line in a list.
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What the annual count costs.
A worked example, with the inputs in the open. Your own figures give a different number for the same shape of problem.
Three stores locations, two days each, four people pulled off their own work. Then about an hour apiece looking for the assets the list says exist.
Worked example, KIM 4 Industry, September 2026 · inputs replaced with the client’s own figuresFilmed at the client, with the people who use it.
Closing off the stock used to take me two days at least. Now, in a few hours, I have a clear picture.
The endless spreadsheets are gone.
“Full traceability across every tool.”
A record does not appear out of nowhere.
Every issue note has a job behind it, and the job happened somewhere with a machine and a person in front of it. That is the other half of the chain.
Straight answers.
How do your stores run today?
Receipt, issue, count: we will show you those three prepared for your operation.