Project Management- Parts Orders and Inventory
Procedure to request parts for members
- Copy google spreadsheet template in SCEL > General Docs/Media > Item Requests > ItemRequestTemplate.gsheet
- Rename as ItemRequest_<Date Requests are due>.gsheet
- Save google spreadsheet in a new dated folder in the drive
- Send out spreadsheet to all members of the lab
- Deadlines for parts orders are the Friday after All Hands Meetings
Processing orders
- Check item request lists
- Make sure requests are reasonable and actually necessary
- Check that excessive amounts of parts or items already in the lab are not being ordered
- Send item request list to Dr. Kuh as a spreadsheet
- State which funds you plan to use
- Remind him there are multiple tabs for different vendors
- Ask for his approval
- Don't forget to attach the list!
- To use CoE and CTAHR Funds and any other funds managed by the college (Lori/Charlene in HH250 Office)
- Can only do PO's- otherwise items needs to be paid for by a student or professor and reimbursed
- Refer to contacts list for vendors as well as instructions for how to make price quotes
- Create price quotes and they need to include:
- Prices of items
- Shipping costs and tax
- Address of vendor
- Send price quotes to Lori (loriyuu@hawaii.edu) and cc the SCEL email, Dr. Kuh, and the leadership team
- To use other funds
- Send email with item request spreadsheet to Gail (gyamamo@hawaii.edu) and cc the SCEL email, Dr. Kuh, and the leadership team
Purchasing equipment
- For single purchases over $2500
- Need three price quotes from different vendors for the same product
While Parts are being Shipped
- Parts should come within two weeks or so
- Lori needs to write requisitions so the UH foundation will write the PO
- Gail will need to process and order the parts
- Shipping is usually 2 days
- If parts do not come with in the next couple of weeks
- Check with Lori or Gail on the order
- Ask for the PO number and call the vendor to check on the order
Processing Received Parts
- Pick up received parts from EE Department Office (HH483)
- Cherry or Dr. Kuh will notify you when the packages arrive
- When picking parts up from Cherry, sign to pick up the packages
- Check the packing slip in the lab
- Check off each item in the package
- Initial and date the bottom of the packing slip
- Put the packing slip in the top draw of the filing cabinet titled “Financial” in the folder with other packing slips
- Notify the team that their parts have arrived
- Can leave it up to that team to put their parts away or you can do it for them
- Update financial spreadsheet
- Go to the financial spreadsheet in the SCEL Leadership folder
- Add a new entry to subtract off the amount of the package
- Don't forget to include the shipping amount!
- Update item request spreadsheet
- Go to the item request spreadsheet (.xlsx file) where the parts were requested
- Change the Status column to “Received”
Inventory
- During the semester
- Order parts and don't take inventory
- Sorting parts and update spreadsheet
- Sort parts at the end of the semester
- Update values and parts in the spreadsheet
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Created by cobatake on 2016/02/19 20:14.