Running your business on SnapLedger · Furniture & Fit-out · Lesson 6 of 10
Check the shelf, buy once, receive with the tool
2:11 · Captions: English, Arabic, French and Chinese.
In most workshops, materials are bought when the job reaches them: boards today, hinges tomorrow — never a planned order, and never a better price. In this lesson, Dunewood checks the shelf first, buys everything at once, and receives it properly at the gate.
What you'll learn
- Check stock for a whole job
- Order what's short for every job at once — one order per supplier
- Receive the delivery with the tool, at the gate
Step by step
- The work begins — Ms Karam has approved, so Zuhair moves the job on — from the design to the work itself.
- Check the shelf — Check inventory takes every piece apart into its materials, and compares them with what's on the shelf. The oak is already there — twenty sheets, bought last month. The rest isn't, yet.
- What it's made of — Buying is Yusuf's, as head of operations. Every piece in Dunewood's library knows what it's made of — boards, hardware, fabric — and who supplies each material, at what price.
- What's missing — Run gap adds up what every open job needs, takes off what's on the shelf and already on order, and drafts one purchase order per supplier.
- One order per supplier — Yusuf checks each draft and orders: three suppliers, three orders, for all the work ahead. That's the planned order that earns a better price — instead of ten trips.
- Received at the gate — When the plywood arrives, Omar receives it with the tool, at the gate. He checks the delivery in against the order, line by line, and confirms what actually came. That check-in is the record: the stock is on the shelf at the order's prices, and there's no paper to type up or upload afterwards. SnapLedger numbers the receipt; printing it is optional.
Every movement is at cost, and it's already in the books. No spreadsheet to update at the end of the month. Next: the workshop builds the pieces — and the job learns what it cost.