Wasted Away in Businessville
Wasted Away in Businessville
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Often this ordering goes on without any upper level management involvement and when someone hears that there is a new type of scented highlighter that hits the market and they just have to have it...it’s on YOUR nickel. Many years ago I had the good fortune of sitting in on an expense control meeting where we were all admonished for “mailing” paperclips out. Not in a lump sum but attached to various correspondence that we forwarded to clients or vendors. We were told that we were to “replace” said clips with a staple. I thought this was going overboard and had a vision of everyone in the company requisitioning expensive staplers to take the place of the paperclips. Was there a cost savings in that? I did not follow up to see if that in fact had happened but a few years after this meeting I got to thinking. I walked into our accounting office and into the supply room and found that we were stocking thousands of dollars of office supplies that were better off living on the shelves of Office Depot rather than using the cash that we needed to operate the business. To add insult to injury, our office products suppliers had next day delivery so if we were on top of our game we would never be out of anything while needing to stock nothing. So, I put the usual knee jerk reaction in place requiring my approval on any subsequent orders. I did not institute the paperclip mail out program however. Shortly thereafter I found a request to order paperclips. I sprung into action. I secured a box and my controller and we walked up to every desk and work station in the company...with the mission of “collecting” paperclips to redistribute. I was amazed how many cute little magnetic paperclip holders there were out there. In many desks there were full boxes of large, small, cute colored, and Zebra patterned clips. Needless to say we had no reason to order paperclips, perhaps ever again. These types of events are occurring throughout your business. Waste is rampant everywhere and it draws on our natural resources and uses up business resources. We are constantly replacing perfectly good equipment because there are new features available. We have excessive phone, fax, and internet lines. We get bills from vendors without checking their accuracy or if they are charging us according to our contracted agreements. We have extra people, extra copiers, drawers of unassigned cell phones, we continue to pay for beepers and needless subscriptions. Now is the time for you to walk your company, look in the desks, or just share your mission with your team and have them hand things back in and keep those items in your “supply room” You will be amazed at how many hanging file folders your company has. Happy hunting.
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