HI Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had a similar situation regarding label reconciliation. We are a smaller sized company, and have one processing room that we are having trouble figuring out a way to do an accurate label reconciliation for. We do label changeovers no problem (with each label change a label is stuck onto the form and signed off by QA). These are adhesive labels that come on a pre-printed roll (2500 labels per roll). So, we know how many labels are on the full roll and we know how many retail containers of product they end up with at the end of a run, but this room often has a lot of waste labels-- they have to wind some off the roll when they set up the roll on the labeling machine, and unfortunately the labeling machine that is in use often has issues throughout the day and requires adjustments which results in labels being discarded for various reasons. Counting every single one of the waste labels doesn't necessarily seem like an option (if they are having issues sometimes they will pull labels off and stick them together in a pile to be discarded).
We have a labeling inventory that we use to reorder the labels, but we aren't going by exact label numbers, only estimates based on the number of rolls left (for example on our inventory we will know we typically use 1 roll per week, we have about 1.75 rolls left etc), we do not count the actual individual labels on the roll. Does anyone else have a similar situation that they have found a good way to keep track of labels remaining on pre-printed rolls?