# Freeze, observe and review a bounded count

Count A-01 against its frozen baseline, then apply one reviewed difference.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/stockflow/guides/stockflow-office-count

Audience: Supervisor

Use an authorised account and only supported physical facts. This recording uses an isolated synthetic stockroom with prepared approved materials, rules, opening stock and a selected station.

## Freeze, observe and review a bounded count

1. **Choose the floor menu**

   Choose the floor menu.

   Use the shared Floor menu for physical stock tasks.

2. **Open Count a frozen bin**

   Open Count a frozen bin.

   A supervisor starts a bounded count. A-01 holds fifteen pieces in this prepared example; the separate A-02 count is untouched.

3. **Confirm the physical facts**

   Confirm the physical facts.

   Select only the exact bin quantity ready to count. Receiving and staging are outside this scope.

4. **Enter reason**

   Enter reason.

   Explain why this bounded count is ready to start.

5. **Confirm the physical facts**

   Confirm the physical facts.

   Reconcile already moved material first so the count baseline represents the physical boundary.

6. **Freeze the selected row**

   Freeze the selected row.

   Quantity changes for this scope now pause during the count window. Other bins are separate.

7. **Choose the new frozen count**

   Choose the new frozen count.

   Open the newly created A-01 count. The older prepared A-02 count belongs to the separate CountBench exercise.

8. **Choose row being counted**

   Choose row being counted.

   Select the exact frozen row. Missing observations never become zero.

9. **Enter actually observed in each**

   Enter actually observed in each.

   This exercise physically observes fourteen pieces. Enter zero only when none were actually counted.

10. **Record the physical observation**

   Record the physical observation.

   Recording an observation does not itself post the discrepancy. Review remains separate.

11. **Enter review reason**

   Enter review reason.

   An authorised supervisor checks the supported difference before applying it.

12. **Prepare the reviewed difference**

   Prepare the reviewed difference.

   Review the retained baseline, accepted observation and proposed difference. A stale proposal must be prepared again.

13. **Apply the reviewed difference once**

   Apply the reviewed difference once.

   Apply the exact current proposal with recent Accounts verification. Retain its receipt and do not post the difference again.

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Check retained receipts after uncertainty. Do not repeat a movement with a new request identity until the original result is known.