Chapter 5: Alternative Courses of Action

1. Make a monthly check of inventory stocks
Advantages
– the replenishment process would be easy – it would be easy to know what supplies are needs to change – it improve the performance of employee because of a good replenishment

Disadvantages – in order to do inventory check an employee must take overtime – Relying on manual counting of stock, mistakes can be made. – it would be short-term estimating of inventory supply

2. Prepare a list of items available in the stock room and ask the employees to mark the item they taken out of the cabinet.
Advantages
– it would easy to check what items are gone – it helps to know when to add an inventory – keep up its proper flow of inventory (maintain the proper flow of inventory stock )

Disadvantages – not all employees would participate – employees might forget to mark the item list – If an employee forgot to mark the supply list the monitor might not know if there are still plenty of stocks of this item on the cabinet. May not be aware if this item needed to be restocked.

3. Provide a cabinet A and B wherein cabinet A will be open for employees and cabinet B will be lock until cabinet A is not yet consume.
Advantages
– it prevent to issue an order of supplies immediately – the inventory of supply will be well monitored – more efficient and make better to handle the supply (makokontrol na yung supply ng mas better)

Disadvantages – expensive – employees would abuse to used of inventory supply – need an additional space for the cabinet B

4. Appoint an employee that will maintain the records of supplies on hand.
Advantages
– have an exact record and decide what supply will increase – properly monitoring of inventory supply – long-term estimating of inventory supply

Disadvantages – human error – employees would have extra task, so s/he would not focus to another task –

5. Redesign the monitoring system
Advantages
– improve the replenishment process and to be more effective – performance would increase / upgrade – resolve the problem

Disadvantages – It’s difficult to adapt for new system – not sure if this are effective – time wasted for redesign