Physical inventory in Côte d'Ivoire: counting an import and re-export hub

One warehouse, several markets

Abidjan warehouses frequently hold goods destined for Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea alongside domestic stock. Counting the building as a single pool produces a number nobody can act on.

We zone by ownership and destination first, so the report answers what is ours, what is in transit and what is already sold.

Bilingual documentation matters

Count sheets, variance registers and management summaries can be produced in French, English or both, which keeps regional head offices and local operations reading the same document.

Deep SKU ranges need a clean master first

Distributors serving the UEMOA region carry very deep ranges with near-identical variants. Cleaning the item master before the count removes most of the apparent variance before it is even investigated.

Then keep it

A verified opening balance loaded into a structured workspace, with reorder levels per market, keeps the reset from unravelling after the first busy month.