Dallas Lean in the Office expert shares his formula

Dallas Lean in the Office expert shares his formula for significantly reducing the $’s invested in storing supplies and stationary at the office

Bruce Carnohan simply asks: Is the Organization spending too much money on office supplies, inks/toners and stationary items and then running out of those critical items on the most important sales visit of the year at your offices?

The root causes of ordering, handling, storing and checking of office supplies and stationary comes down to the following issues:
Inventory Balance
Adequacy of the Re Ordering Systems
Organization of the Physical Work Environment
Quality of the Information on Staff Usages
Effectiveness of the Replenishment/Re Ordering Process
Standardization of the Purchasing Processes

TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO LEARN MORE AND ASK YOURSELF THESE 3 QUESTIONS:
1) If you asked everyone on Friday of this week to empty their desk and cabinets of supplies and stationary items that were in excess of what they needed for the next 3 days, would then turned back in pile look like this?
 
 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
2) If you had to re order most of your common daily items used in the office in 30 seconds or less, do you have visual re order cards in place like this one below? 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ITEM: Marquis Paper Towels
Re Order Qty 1 case 30 rolls
RE ORDER POINT: 6 rolls
SUPPLIER or STORE: Janitorial Supply or SAMS/Wal Mart
WHERE USED: Total Building
RE ORDER PHONE NUMBER: Local call: 459-4563
RE ORDER FAX NUMBER: (814) 456-6240
E MAIL ADDRESS: jsc@janitorssupply.com

  

 3) Is your current inventory (in-stock) of supplies and stationary calculated based on the maximum demand of that item per person, multiplied by the time it takes to replenish the supply, + a safety stock of a certain amount of days that may occur by an unplanned delay in getting delivery of the item?

 

 

 

 

IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED NO MORE THAN ONCE ABOVE YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE YOUR CURRENT SUPPLIES and INVENTORY REORDERING PROCESSES and SAVING SOME MUCH NEEDED CASH ALONG THE WAY….   

Bruce Carnohan, owner & principle of Carnohan Process Solutions: brucesvi@aol.com
Bruce has 39 years of hands on global organizational experience, Bruce is a Dallas based expert process improvement implementer, comfortable in either manufacturing or in the office of small to medium sized for and nonprofit status organizations. Through his dedication to turning all unacceptable results into exceptional results and working in more than 150 different organizational settings, enabling organizations to save significant work processing steps, huge amounts of processing time and typically six figure bottom line cash improvements per project.

 

 

 

categories Uncategorized | brucecarnohan | datetime July 29, 2009 4:34 pm

1 Comment

  • By Tony Brown, September 24, 2009 @ 9:15 am

    I don’t know If I said it already but …This blog rocks! I gotta say, that I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks, :)

    A definite great read..Tony Brown

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