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** Need information on what we are processing | ** Need information on what we are processing | ||
** No database is accurate, need to correct on a regular basis | ** No database is accurate, need to correct on a regular basis | ||
| − | examples | + | examples: theft forgotten entries, mistyped entries |
** who wants the data - NCER, annual report, donors, production/sales projections, space/time budgeting | ** 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) | ** things we don't bother with and why (what we used to try to cover) | ||
Revision as of 21:32, 5 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)
- Modified old entries
- props