M.Y.T.H. Inc In Action by Robert Asprin

“Ummm … I don’t guess it is such a bad system, Junebug,” I sez, thinkin’ fast. “I mean, would you want to rearrange all this stuff to make room for each new shipment as it comes in?”

“You could get around that by leaving extra room in each storage category,” he sez, not backin’ off from his idea. “We gotta do something to organize this mess. Otherwise, we’ll be spending all our time just trying to locate each item when we have to fill an order. I can’t see how they’ve been operating around here without some kind of system.”

“They’ve got a system all right,” Spellin’ Bee sez, lookin’ up from the Forms Instruction Manual he was readin’. “The problem is, they’ve got so much duplicate paperwork to fill out they probably never had any time left over to try to organize the warehouse itself! I can’t believe they expect us to fill out all these forms for every item in and out of inventory.”

What the officer told me flashes across my mind, and it gives me an idea.

“Do you think you can come up with a better trackin’ system. Bee?” I sez.

“Probably,” he sez, shuttin’ the instruction manual. “Let’s see … we’d need some sort of floor map … two of them actually, one so we know what’s already here and where it is, and a second to establish the redefined areas … and then a simple In/Out Log so we could track the movement of items …”

“Okay,” I interrupts, “get started on it. Figure out what we’re gonna have to do and what you’ll need in the way of information.”

This, of course, earns me a hard look from Nunzio.