How Our Day Works

Inventory HQ · West Coast Select — RYDER WAREHOUSE OFFICE / SALES

Nobody here "does inventory" as a job. The system rides along on work that's already happening — unloading takes the time unloading takes, picking takes the time picking takes — and in exchange we get live counts, one-click recalls, and numbers everyone can trust.

7:15 AM

The system reports in first RYDER

The watchdog message lands before anyone's on site: "all clear ✓" or a short list of what needs attention today. Mondays it's the full business brief — sales, pipeline, week ahead. Fifteen seconds with coffee.

8:00 AM

Day sheet & temps WAREHOUSE

Whoever opens up prints the 🖨 Day sheet (Schedule) — overdue first, today's trucks in and orders out, counts due, anything low. That one page runs the morning. Then two taps per freezer on the Cold chain panel logs the temps — our CFIA record, done before the kettle boils.

TRUCK
ARRIVES

Receive it the hour it lands WAREHOUSE

+ Receive → location's already remembered → who it came from (suppliers auto-suggest). Hit 📷 Scan cases and scan every case off the truck — the lines build themselves. Lot numbers from the cases, best-by fills itself, 🏷 Labels prints one label per case — tape them on — then Receive all.

Ordered on a PO? "Receive against this PO" pre-fills everything and checks the order off.

ORDER
COMES IN

Promise only what's real OFFICE / SALES

+ Order: customer, ship-by date, lines. Beside each line: what's truly available — on hand minus what's already promised to other open orders. The same case can't be sold twice. (Shopify web orders skip all this — they flow in and deduct stock by themselves every 10 minutes.)

ORDER
GOES OUT

Pick by the list, ship by the scan WAREHOUSE

Open the order → Ship this order → print the pick list: the exact lots to pull, oldest best-by first, grouped so you walk the building once. Pull, load, carrier + tracking, Ship all, packing slip in the box. Held lots never appear — ON HOLD never ships.

Office later: Mark invoiced (Sage #) → Mark paid. Unpaid 14+ days starts nagging on its own.

SPARE 10
MINUTES

Count what's due — minutes, not days WAREHOUSE

Count opens on exactly what's owed: A items monthly, the rest less often. Phone in hand: scan → type what you see → save → next. Freezer kills the wifi? Keep counting — it uploads itself later. This little habit is what keeps every other number true.

ALL DAY,
IN PASSING

The customer book stays warm OFFICE / SALES RYDER

Called someone? Two taps on their page logs it. Lead closed? ✓ Customer. Complaint call? ⌘K their name → 🖨 Shipment history shows every lot they ever got, and any lot number drops into Trace for the full record — supplier to boat to their door.

FRIDAY,
10 MIN

The owner's lap of the week RYDER

✨ Suggest order drafts the buying from real demand math → 🖨 Print PO to the supplier. Download a backup when nudged, 🔍 Check it, file it. Glance at Count variance and Waste. That's the whole management overhead — the crons and the watchdog carry the rest.

Made a mistake? Nobody panics.

  • Wrong entry → tell Ryder: Activity → reverses it cleanly, nothing deleted.
  • Wrong shelf → open the lot → Move.
  • Any doubt at all → just recount the item. A count always sets the truth.

The five rules that never bend

  • Receive the day it arrives · ship through the system, never around it.
  • Lot numbers, always. No lot, no entry.
  • ON HOLD never ships. Ask Ryder.
  • Your own login, every time — that's our traceability.
  • Talked to a customer? Log the touch. Two taps.
The trade: a few honest seconds at every doorway — truck, freezer, loading dock, phone call — and in return the system hands back live stock you can promise against, recalls that take seconds instead of days, buying backed by math, and a Monday briefing that already knows the answers.

Stuck on a step? The full Manual covers every screen, and Items, UPCs, Scanning & Stock covers data entry end to end — both one tap from ❓ in the app. Print this page for the crew-room wall.