What I get to do today.....

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jose bagge

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• Nov 5, 2011

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working a rare Saturday- I get to do inventory. Over 20,000 tires in stock. Yee-hawwww! At least they're easy to chase into their pens.

 

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dbernie

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• Nov 5, 2011

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Repeat after me,"I love my job, I love my job, I love my job..."
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lblock

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• Nov 5, 2011

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Workin on sat as well. Stucco foundation blocks before rain monday.

Larry O before

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Anonymous-0

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• Nov 5, 2011

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That looks good. You have a clean warehouse and the tires are well organized. If you have shipping and receiving shut down for the count, inventory's a piece of cake.

Is this a manual count or bar-code scanning?

 

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Rich Iowa

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• Nov 5, 2011

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That's a pretty clean warehouse, uch cleaner than ours and we handle medical supplies. Sure is a lot of tires.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Nov 5, 2011

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Can you maybe slip me out 6 or 8 of them in your lunch pail?

 

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Gun guru

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• Nov 5, 2011

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I take it you work for a tire distributor that supplies tire shops. Or....Does your tire shop have 20,000 tires in stock?

Do you have a lot of theft in that type of environment?
A former buddy of mine worked at Sears when he was in High school 25 years ago. He ripped off a lot of stuff....Super Stupid.

 

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Tramway Guy

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• Nov 5, 2011

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Don't work too hard....you could get overly tired!

 

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sotxbill

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• Nov 5, 2011

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i love to eat.. i love to eat.. i love..

 

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jose bagge

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• Nov 5, 2011

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We call that "soup canned"- straight stacks, labels out. I shut everything down today- nothing inbound or outbound, so sales. We count by hand- no scanning- and get it done in about 6 hours. Used to scan my retail stores through RGIS- it worked good- but none of my cheap chinese stuff has bar codes.

 

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jose bagge

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• Nov 5, 2011

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we have very little shrink- last inventory of a bit over 20,000 units i was short 2 tires. Distribution is a much more controlled environment than retail- I had tire stores in PG County Maryland that I shut down because the shrink was so bad: we were losing one tire for every 4 we sold, and everyone knew who the theif was but no one would talk. Guys doctoring paperwork are easy to catch- folks who just flat out steal are much harder!

 

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jose bagge

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• Nov 5, 2011

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As an additional aside: Sears budgets .8% to shrink...so on my 20,000 tire inventory they'd expect to lose 160 tires to theft! 40 freaking sets!!

 

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jose bagge

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• Nov 5, 2011

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If it were a muffler shop, I'd be exhausted

 

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ericlb

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• Nov 5, 2011

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so thats what new tires look like, lol i still have slicks on the ground of most of my trucks, lol the tractors tires are all good though does that count?

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Nov 5, 2011

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It would be enjoyable doing inventory there! I had to help do inventory at the regional warehouse for a large welding suppliers distributor after work yesterday. Mountains of dust and a lot of stuff wasn't on the inventory list. Lots of small parts, big parts, pallets of stuff you had to go through, etc., etc. A lot of people left early which made it take longer. Man that's a clean and well organized warehouse!

 

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MartyinVa

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• Nov 5, 2011

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Well you could have been taking a bunch of girls to a horse show. Getting up befo early light, hooking up trailer, making sure all lights work, tack in the trailer?, yall got ya boots, who"s gonna load 1st, ect... Have you BTDT

 

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Mark - IN.

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• Nov 5, 2011

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Seems like a lot of tires. Are you really planning on going through that many tires? Have you ever thought of checking the pressures and alignments more frequently so they don't wear out so fast? What kind of pickup do you drive? Maybe you oughta sell it. Seems like that would save you some money.

Good luck.

Mark

 

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jose bagge

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• Nov 6, 2011

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THAT was last Saturday...followed by soccer in Richmond. any you nailed it: It's amzing how you can have a trailer full of gear, but they'll always be missing something important- like a SADDLE

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Nov 6, 2011

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I did hear about a guy who worked in a wire distribution warehouse- they inventoried rolls of wire, not how much was left on the roll. So he would cut lengths of heavy guage copper or aluminum wire to the length of his lunchbox, and carry out a few pounds of metal every night. When roll got small enough that a loss would be noticeable, he'd lay off that roll until it sold out and was replaced with a new one.

Finally caught when someone picked up his "loaded" lunchbox by mistake, and investigated why a lunchbox would be so heavy.