Let’s get back to work.
The one thing I’ll never understand is how come numbers don’t mean a damn thing at my work place. Alright, here’s the senario that got me into trouble on Friday. and I’m still reeling from trying to figure out what on earth could happen.
When something on the computer says it is in short supply, we make sure we have it in the warehouse through an e-mail to the controller guy and he will get the warehouse workers to go check it out and report back with a physical count. And the physical count will be reported to the heads of the company who can adjust the computer inventory and at the same time we can tell our customers yay or nay with regards to their order.
Now if on Tuesday the customer wants 98 boxes of material where it’s debateable whether or not we have 98 boxes of material, my coworker went and had a physical check done on the particular product. It was returned that we had 100 boxes of said material. So okay, she puts her order through for 98 boxes of material. All is good.
On Friday I am told to check the quantity of said material. So I remembered the stock check earlier in the week. I looked at the e-mail saying we had two boxes of material remaining from the purchase on Tuesday. I looked at the last time someone purchased said material, and they were the last to order. So considering on Tuesday someone did a physical check and said “We have 100 boxes of material” and the co-worker said “I’m taking 98 boxes of material” and no one else has purchased material since, would logic not dictate that there are still 2 boxes of material somewhere in the warehouse?
Apparently not. Apparently after the physical stock check and push of order through, the 100 boxes of material somehow only became like 95 boxes of material. And all 95 boxes of material were shipped to the customer who ordered first, leaving zero boxes of material left. Who knows. Either way, no one tells us these things because… well again, that would just be logical.
So I’m getting in trouble for following procedure. Stock checks take a long time to do, is time consuming in general, and if we already had one done, you would assume the workers in the warehouse are able to count the first time around. So either we have gremlins eating away our products between the few hours of having a stock-check done and having the order pushed through, and there’s a virus going around of stupidity where no one informs anyone else of anything because it would be the smart thing to do.
It’s a case of damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Stay tuned. Lots of venom being vented through the online world these days.
