Here a few steps to maintain accurate records: Be sure that everyone knows the importance of it, inspire people to own up for their part, ensure that everyone knows what areas they are responsible for, offer training in procedures for storeroom personnel and your customers, have motivational talks from different speakers, offer tools to make work easier, establish goals and measures and report on progress in public. Here are a few areas where mistakes tend to mess everything up: parts removed without paperwork, missing shipping, receiving documents, wrong part sent in and missed in receiving, confusion in unit of measure, errors in transcription, pilferage, theft, toolbox inventory, etc.