User:MichaelWestwind/Inventory notes

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)
• How we do inventory
  • Inventory by location not type

    Best way of making sure we actually get everything

  • Counting
• 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 is a system in the first place?
  • What we don't count
• 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