Determine which pieces of equipment are critical to the operation (can’t run without it).
2. Write PM’s on these pieces of equipment (I have a few written already) using the owners manuals as your starting point. Chances are your PM’s will look nothing like your originals once you are rolling.
3. Inventory your spare parts using the total quantities to determine the proper storage location. You want to make sure that you are not storing a bunch of “air”. Most likely you will start to run out of locations once you expand, so it is better to “right size” the parts up front the best you can. You will also continue to move parts in the storeroom as the min/max change or you determine that you do not need to stock that part anymore.
4. Determine your storeroom location labeling system and mark/label the locations so that you have a location to store the materials.
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Enter the location in the parts data within bigfoot. It would be beneficial to also enter the quantities at that point. Once you have the part numbers/locations/qtys in place, I would have the techs communicate to the storeroom what parts were checked out so that inventory numbers can be updated. I would suggest you get the techs attaching the parts in the system ASAP to help keep inventory numbers accurate. This is not easy. Once you have a working system, you enter in the part number information for whatever supplier you are going to use to source parts. Our current part numbers are based on the equipment manufacturer number and not a bigfoot designated part number. It will help the ordering process if we have the vendor, part number, etc. entered into the system. Once you have locations established, please keep in mind that the job is not complete…..It has only