by globallockytoo » 11 Jan 2007 14:43
I know what you mean. During my apprenticeship, I worked for a company that had 4 stores (many years later, i went back to work for them and they had 10 stores) and was made responsible for maintaining the keyblanks ordering, storage etc.
The shop was interestingly laid out, with storage shelves for all stock located on the split floor above the workshop. We kept the steel shelves stocked as previously described, but these were the days before modern computerised cataloguing.
Today, some shops still maintain the physical warehousing, but can use their accounting and inventory software to include stock location, bin number, shelf etc, so the boss could find out immediately with his access, the location of sought after additional stock.
If the warehousing person responsible for ordering blanks is doing their job properly, any back orders for the particular blanks will be noted so time is saved on a fruitless search and the boss can rest assured the business is running smoothly.
