Future: Final Week of December – Inventory

Obviously this hasn’t happened yet, but in the final week of the year, Doug Fleenor Design does a complete inventory count and compares it to the inventory listings which are kept in BusinessWorks. Since it is such a small company, there is only one physical inventory per year.

To do the inventory, BusinessWorks prints out an inventory checklist, with how many of each part there are supposed to be, and you pick a page and start counting. I’ve gotten a taste of it during the power outage, where we attempted to be productive by doing some of the inventory, before I got pulled away to work on the generator. They tell me that doing a full inventory is not too bad, until you get to the pages that have the resistors and other tiny parts that have to be counted. I’m kinda curious how you count 500-1000 of something that is so light, that even a scale won’t be accurate enough to measure it.