We have a tendency to buy office supplies, e.g. paper clips, pens, markers, etc… only to later find out that we have it in excess, that they were just in the corner of a closed cabinet or shelf.
This isn’t a major issue, but I’m also thinking there’s probably an easy solution. I was thinking perhaps just have open shelves so they would always be on display with no blind spots, or to just draft an excel sheet checklist of sorts, and just have 1 of our office staff do a monthly audit.
What do you guys do?
Thanks
Only one person should be ordering supplies. Keep supplies in one space everyone knows about, have them check there when they need something and if it’s out or close to out, they tell the person who places orders. The coffee is not running out with no one noticing. Someone is using the last of it and doesn’t care enough to refill. If you use Amazon, just add things to the cart as they come up. Don’t bother with the checklist, it’ll be too hard to keep up with. Make it clear people should not wait until something is out to mention it’s out. We can all tell when something is running low, it’s everyone’s responsibility to help out here.