Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Wish Granted....SO???

So how was my MPH stocktake?!...-NOt satisfying:(
This morning me and my senior, Sherry were quite excited. We both reach out client's place at aout 8.10am. We went to look for the person in charge Barbara and she briefed us. And at about 8.30am we were brought to the respective places.
They have 2 warehouses of BOOKS. Just Books.

For people like David, Carmen etc i think u guys don't mind spending your whole day here. Cause there are really lots of books here. As long as books u can find in any MPH outlets, you can find one here...you guys can just simply use up all your time here just for reading...just too bad that we cannot take it and read. We were asked to OBSERVE the whole process.

What?!...observe people count from 8-7.30 pm?! CRAZY!!!!!!!!
This is one of the things i ve done for the day...play with rubber bands in the office. It was really boring...We have nothing to do...why?...

Basically its like this. As an auditor, we are not expected to count all stocks in it as this is our client's job not us. Hence, we are just asked to do some test checkings after their staffs have finish counting a shelve of books. However, we need not count all shelves that have been counted. We just need to pick a shelve randomly and inside that particular shelve, there are thousands of books and we just need to pick a book and count the total quantity of that particular book. So basically our job for the whole morning was just to wait for our client's staff to count. Just wait. Oh yea, we did observe la...we went to every counter and make sure all of them did the same procedure..tagging...labeling...scan the bar code...count accordingly etc... but this doesnt take a long time...so basically our job for the day is to WAIT! as today is their first day of counting so...yea..WAit till they finish counting..we choose some samples and we have to WAIT again..Wait for their system to print out a copy of the record and we tele it with the record we have on hand...thats all...

Yea..so basically thats all. Now i understand why auditors hate stocktaking...

Well, i won't say i hate it but it depends. Like what my senior mention, actually our job can be done in just few hours time and we no need to be here the whole day from 8-7...we shall come in after lunch or somehow not that early cause things are not counted so samples are not ready...

Another thing quoted from another of my colleague Zhe Quan, hehe...if our stocktake is to count gold and diamonds...regardless how dull is the job he'll still go...hehe..how materialistic!

Oh yea..now envy my other colleague...she is doing a stock count for PATCHI...

"Can see can count but cannot eat!"...so wat for? hehe

2 comments:

Go Smerv said...

My nightmare! I extremely hate to do stock-take. Especially I was required to report at warehouse on my rest day!

Sometimes we would blame the auditors for being slow-motion. We have done our part but the auditors seemed to be very slow!

Arrrggghhhhhh.... but that's the way we do the stock-take too. Auditors just pick a product randomly but it depends on your luck too, if the quantity left is few that would be great; if a lot, then you should get a lottery as soonest possible.

Go Smerv said...

forgot to ask u...
can u take the photo of ur client's warehouse?

if you could but i dun think you could publish it on public...

better check b4 getting urself into trouble