The order came for on-high, higher than heaven - the investors. We were charged to obsolete as much of our old parts and inventory as possible and have it done by tomorrow. Just kidding. Tomorrow is holiday. We're too have it done by Wednesday or we'll find our jobs obsolete. Like that's a bad thing.
We found over 10,000 items. To rid them from our inventory system, we had find all the prints and all the specification sheets. After painstakingly reviewing each part, we then fill out more paperwork, entering it all into the company's computers, and then stamp "OBSOLETE" on each and every piece of paper related to this fiasco.
We did everything except the marking of the papers. One part has 10 to 20 pages of documentation. Multiply that by 10,000 items, and you have a lot of dead trees to process.
Not a problem. It's ok. I'm an engineer. I had our boys in the model shop create rubber soles that attach to the bottom of shoes of our cracker jack team. On the bottom of these high-tech soles are the words "Obsolete Obsolete". We then spread out hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper across an empty section of the plant with trays of ink on each side of this bureaucratic mess. With our modified shoes, team "Stampers Of Obsolence" went into action. Quickly walking from one side of the plant to the other (because running is a no-no and Lord-of-the-Dance is a worse offense), we had our paperwork completely stamped in no time.
Let me just say that we are also available for children's parties. We stamp the fun into any occasion ... provide you supply the ink.
3 comments:
That sounds like a lot of paperwork to process! Hopefully you guys will be able to use some kind of inventory management software in the future to prevent that from happening again. Best of luck!
-Jackie
Wow... 10,000 items... definitely a lot of labor going on there ;-)
nice post. I am looking forward
inventory management
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