Getting Organized

Staying Organized

Being organized is essential in any business but it’s even more essential when you are running a business part-time while holding down a full time job. The last thing you want is to spend hours of wasting time looking for items you know you’ve bought but can’t find. As my sales have increased over the months i have had to increase my organizational skills. I could quiet easily manage my stock inventory by keeping it in boxes in my office.
As sales increased and i increased the diversity of my stock this system soon fell down. I had to invest in a racking system which I installed in my office. This enabled me to place each stock item nice and neatly in it’s own box. I had restored order to my business and everything was running smoothly. Standing still however is not a part of my long term plan. Increasing my stock variation is essential to my plans for growth so it was inevitable that I would have to impinge on my newly ordered system.
I have reached that point now. My racking storage system is looking very dishevelled. Where once there was only one product in each box on the rack now there is three or four different products. This is causing me problems when it comes to locating stock and keeping a check on the stock level.
So I’m looking to invest in more racking to accommodate the additional stock. I will have to do this sooner rather than later. Fortunately there are plenty of very good cheap racking systems available that are suitable for a home business. EBay has a good selection and many of the manufacturers put their stuff on eBay. So I’m looking to invest in some good racking to increase my storage capacity.
This will get me back into an ordered state and keep the business organized. As I plan to keep increasing my stock I’m going to have to keep thinking ahead about where to store it. This is why every time I increase my stock level I consolidate my position, get used to the increasing orders, make sure I can cope easy enough before moving on to the next level. I want to avoid a scenario where I have tons of stock listed with no ordered system to cope with demand when it arrives. So back to trying to create some order.
Till next time…..