In reply to BA5 :
I do know, proper? (Goes again to tossing all the pieces in a giant pile on the bench.)
I admire the idea, however simply having a semblance of group goes a protracted lengthy LONG manner. Maybe the closest factor I get to a list system is labeling the contents of bins, and if I am being conscientious, marking out no matter I take away from the bin. If solely I had been extra constant about it. Hell, understanding you could have one thing is barely half the battle in a store the place storing and accessing stuff is a big problem altogether. I truthfully suppose it might take me longer to stock and doc all the pieces I’ve than to simply dig by means of the bins and/or simply order no matter it’s I want.
Store i labored at had vibrant pink binder clips on all of the shelving.
As you pull inventory from a bin containing non-stock objects and see the bin is sort of empty you place a clip on the entrance of the bin.
Fridays you go round and reorder.
Labored surprisingly properly for such a chaotic and disorganized course of
David S. Wallens mentioned:
In reply to BA5 :
I do know, proper? (Goes again to tossing all the pieces in a giant pile on the bench.)
But when I’ve an excel file that tells me what’s within the pile, it is correctly inventoried.
I watch movies on YouTube from Retropower within the UK, they are a excessive finish restomod store. They use a software program bundle particularly designed for outlets like theirs, that has a number of features – it tracks components and provides stock, labor hours, invoices, pictures, and extra. They will share progress data with their purchasers as properly. It is referred to as World Workshop: https://www.globalworkshop.com No thought what it prices, but it surely appears to be like like it might be an awesome factor for a restoration or fab store.
I’ve had a pair automobiles restored at totally different retailers, they might ship me a weekly replace with a short abstract of labor that week together with a couple of pictures. I appreciated being stored within the loop but it surely was fairly primary, one thing just like the software program talked about above would have been a lot better.
Mr_Asa mentioned:
Store i labored at had vibrant pink binder clips on all of the shelving.
As you pull inventory from a bin containing non-stock objects and see the bin is sort of empty you place a clip on the entrance of the bin.
Fridays you go round and reorder.
Labored surprisingly properly for such a chaotic and disorganized course of
A translation for “kanban” is one thing like “visible sign card”. The binder clips are the basic primary core essence of a kanban system.
Keep in mind that Toyota was creating their system lengthy earlier than computer systems, and a significant component was that they could not maintain big quantities of stock readily available.
Lots of the primary concepts will be scaled down and can work with out an excessive amount of overhead.
Once I seize the final roll of paper towels, I toss the plastic wrapper on “the place the place grocery lists are made”. That can also be kanban.
I can go on an excellent rant about cycle counting if y’all need…
As an alternative of that, I really want to exit to the Gemba. I imply, storage.
[“gemba” means something like “the place where the real work is done (or the value is added)”. The orthodox TPS (Toyota Production System, a.k.a. Lean) saying is “go to the gemba”, as a reminder that engineers/management need to GTFO of their office or conference room and go actually see how the workers are doing everything]
BA5 mentioned:
David S. Wallens mentioned:
In reply to BA5 :
I do know, proper? (Goes again to tossing all the pieces in a giant pile on the bench.)
But when I’ve an excel file that tells me what’s within the pile, it is correctly inventoried.
See, it really works.
Severely, the GRM workers retailers are large enough to wish stock methods.
I have been round buying and warehousing lengthy sufficient to have labored with each bin playing cards and totally automated methods.
The hot button is merely having a system and utilizing it.
Now as for the article; you already know I really like GRM however “stock journey”.
I do know I am outdated however can we cease with all the pieces being a journey.
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