Field notes
Notes from distribution finance fieldwork
Short articles for warehouse managers and controllers preparing for inventory cut-offs, transfer reviews, and valuation questions.
Why transfer notes go missing between twin hubs
Common paperwork gaps when stock moves overnight between paired warehouses, and how finance teams catch them before month-end.
Reading an aging report before the auditors arrive
A practical walkthrough of inventory aging columns that matter for distribution finance reviews in Taiwan.
Cut-off testing on goods still on the road
How goods-in-transit blur period boundaries for warehouse networks and what evidence holds up in a findings pack.
When shared rack space skews product margins
Allocation bases that look fair on paper but push cost onto the wrong SKUs in multi-tenant warehouse floors.
Preparing a Tainan site for first-time fieldwork
A checklist warehouse managers use when SmartDistSys visits a southern Taiwan distribution floor for the first time.