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| | | Author: | BLUSER_273382  | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2013 02:41 | | Subject: | Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 106 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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| | | | | Author: | WhiteVanMan | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2013 02:56 | | Subject: | Re: Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BinOfBlocks.Com writes:
| | Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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Just a friendly piece of advice, the suggestions section of the Forum is for
the CATALOGUE or for IDEAS that buyers and sellers feel that would improve the
whole experience that BrickLink offers.
Your question is best aimed at the 'HELP' section of the forum's
listing of topics.
However, I have my store's inventory sorted by BrickLink's catalogue
as when an order gets placed, I can pull the parts as I scroll down the list.
(You can change the settings of how an order looks when it gets placed within
you own store)
Hope this helps,
Paul
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| | | | | Author: | ScootersBricks | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2013 04:43 | | Subject: | Re: Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BinOfBlocks.Com writes:
| | Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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I sort by part type. For example, right now I have three different bins just
for new bricks: 1x1 bricks, 1x2-1x16 bricks, and 2x2+ bricks. Remember: the human
eye can spot color differences much easier than it can spot shape differences.
Mold your inventory to that concept. You could easily have a ton of 2x2 bricks
in one place and still easily find the lime green ones. But it's much harder
to have a bucket of lime green bricks and find the 2x2's.
I started with just five bins that I paid $1 each for at Wally World. Separated
them into Bricks, Plates, Modified bricks/plates, Minifig, and Other. Then as
my inventory grew, I split those bins just like one would split a stock once
the value gets high enough. When I notice a bin getting so full that it takes
more than 30 seconds to find a part in it, I know it's high time to split
that bin into two.
So my 1x2-1x16 bricks bin is going to be split later on in the week into several:
a 1x2 bin, a 1x3 and 1x4 bin, a 1x6 bin, and a 1x8+ bin. My 2x2+ bin will be
split into a 2x2 bin, a 2x3 bin, a 2x4 bin, and a 2x6+ bin. Later on down the
line, when one of those bins gets full, it'll get split again, so it is always
fast and easy to find the parts I need.
If you're spending hours picking out small orders to ship, then you are making
less money per hour. I've found that ten minutes of organization gets me
back more than an hour in time saved, and the less time you spend doing orders,
the more time you can spend building!
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| | | | | Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2013 04:52 | | Subject: | Re: Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BinOfBlocks.Com writes:
| | Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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As a seller I don't see any need to sort my inventory in any way at all.
There is a "remark" field which can be used to denote stock location then orders
can be sorted/displayed in that order for order picking. We do not store any
similar parts in the same locations to avoid picking the wrong item. This also
allows better use of storage, if you sort by type then you might have excess
space in your bricks bins but no space in plates, then you have to reorganise
= waste of time.
Robert
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| | | | | | | Author: | ScootersBricks | | Posted: | Dec 17, 2013 00:50 | | Subject: | Re: Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, BinOfBlocks.Com writes:
| | Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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As a seller I don't see any need to sort my inventory in any way at all.
There is a "remark" field which can be used to denote stock location then orders
can be sorted/displayed in that order for order picking. We do not store any
similar parts in the same locations to avoid picking the wrong item. This also
allows better use of storage, if you sort by type then you might have excess
space in your bricks bins but no space in plates, then you have to reorganise
= waste of time.
Robert
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I worked with EDS in logistics years back; they used a very similar location.
Each part had a Plant and StorLoc number, telling the agent which location, and
then which sub-location the part was located in. For stores planning on having
a million + parts this isn't a bad way to go at all.
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| | | | | | | Author: | BLUSER_29702 | | Posted: | Dec 24, 2013 23:49 | | Subject: | Re: Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, BinOfBlocks.Com writes:
| | Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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As a seller I don't see any need to sort my inventory in any way at all.
Robert
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How can you not sort your inventory in any way at all? I'm picturing this,
which can't be what you mean:
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4025/4434609627_57992af2be_z.jpg
You must use some sort of organization, and pieces must be "sorted" into their
assigned places in the system, right?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | bb314137 | | Posted: | Dec 25, 2013 04:32 | | Subject: | Re: Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Pearson writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, BinOfBlocks.Com writes:
| | Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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As a seller I don't see any need to sort my inventory in any way at all.
Robert
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How can you not sort your inventory in any way at all? I'm picturing this,
which can't be what you mean:
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4025/4434609627_57992af2be_z.jpg
You must use some sort of organization, and pieces must be "sorted" into their
assigned places in the system, right?
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What I think he means (and what I do) is sort the inventory by different lots,
but not in any order.
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| | | | | Author: | calebfishn | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2013 08:08 | | Subject: | Re: Sort Your Inventory By Part # Or Color? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BinOfBlocks.Com writes:
| | Some of you that have stores, have you found it better to sort your inventory
by the part # or by color?
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It seems that buyers might sort by colour. But sellers sort by type/part.
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