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*Issues | *Issues | ||
** Changed categories (lcd monitor vs lcd tv) | ** Changed categories (lcd monitor vs lcd tv) | ||
+ | ** Different standards in different FG areas. | ||
+ | ** lost entries (sheet misplaced, entry point not entered) | ||
** Modified old entries | ** Modified old entries | ||
+ | ** Unknown causes | ||
* props | * props |
Revision as of 13:26, 6 March 2012
Points to cover
- Reasons for inventory
- Need information on what we are processing
- No database is accurate, need to correct on a regular basis
examples: theft forgotten entries, mistyped entries
- who wants the data - NCER, annual report, donors, production/sales projections, space/time budgeting
- things we don't bother with and why (what we used to try to cover)
- Inventory by location not type
- Best way of making sure we actually get everything
- System is a case
- story - 100 systems disassembled and put randomly in 5 boxes. how do we count them?
- alternative story - we weigh everything (how do we tell covered and not after disassembly?)
- Apply this to laptops
- What we do with the inventory data
- Correcting the database, when and how
- recycle vs receive
- examples
- Issues
- Changed categories (lcd monitor vs lcd tv)
- Different standards in different FG areas.
- lost entries (sheet misplaced, entry point not entered)
- Modified old entries
- Unknown causes
- props