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Originally Posted by pUs
This would be possible to accomplish in a number of ways though, if it's worth the effort is another thing.. but let's say you plan to go to a meeting and bring a lot of parts. Then the system only needs to have a function which enables you to "tag" or temporarily "check out" the items which you bring to the track. Let's say you bring a quantity of 5 items of a specific article. If there was 10 available at the store, then as soon as you "check out" the parts i.e when you close the store on friday or something, the web shop now says 5 items are available. When coming back on monday, remaining items are checked back into the system. Depending on the sheer number of items you actually bring to the track though, this might be more or less of a realistic option. The process for tagging / grouping checking out parts could also be made more or less automated for repetative use.
Another solution is of course to equip all items with bar codes and log all purchases. Either stay online all the time through a laptop with 3G modem or periodically check in the purchases being made every hour or so.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that it is infact possible through clever use of software, it all depends on wether it's worth the effort or not.  |
Thanks for the input, although the sheer amount we take to the meetings would possibly be a problem for us.
We take a "full shop" not just a few odd spares, plus we would have to look into the cost and time involved to implement such a system before it would become a real possability, it already taks us most of monday and somtimes into a tuesday to get all the stock unloaded and back onto the shelves properly, any more admin would only slow this up even more sadly.