On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 07:58:48PM -0500, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Your story reminded me on an incident when I was working as a purchasing
> intern at IBM between my junior and senior years at school. On of my
> tasks was to take care of tools orders from the machine shops. I
> received an order for a single grinding wheel. I called the
> manufacturer to get a price and was surprised when I was told (as best I
> remember) that a single wheel was $30 and two wheels were $10 for both.
The australian purchasing officer would have sent them one wheel, taken
the other one home & put the extra $20 into the office beer fund... :)
</facetious>
When I was a kid, my parents had pacers (harness racing horses). The
racing sulkys used spoked wheels with sealed bearings (something like a
1614rs). Dad went to a bearing house to buy four bearings. They were
something like $10 a shot. The salesman pulled a box of 10 of them to
pick four out. Dad asked how much the box cost, It came to something
like $9.20 total... bizarre.
I can see the machinist's manager's view - I did a project management
subject as part of my electronics associate diploma. Surplus inventory
has to be housed (rent), lit, heated, dusted, counted, and interest paid
on the $ used to buy it, or so the MBA says. Just In Time delivery
looks best *on paper*...
davidt
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