. Bell telephone magazine . in these store-rooms were replenished by the plac-ing of bulk requisitions on the dis-tributing houses about once a week. As the volume of business grew,many of the storerooms within themetropolitan areas surrounding thedistributing houses started to placedaily requisitions to replenish theirstocks in order to meet their increasedneeds. This helped the storeroomsto keep their supply investment at areasonable level and gave them dailyaccess to the larger stocks at the dis-tributing houses. It was customary under early meth-ods of storeroom operation for Plantemployee
. Bell telephone magazine . in these store-rooms were replenished by the plac-ing of bulk requisitions on the dis-tributing houses about once a week. As the volume of business grew,many of the storerooms within themetropolitan areas surrounding thedistributing houses started to placedaily requisitions to replenish theirstocks in order to meet their increasedneeds. This helped the storeroomsto keep their supply investment at areasonable level and gave them dailyaccess to the larger stocks at the dis-tributing houses. It was customary under early meth-ods of storeroom operation for Plantemployees to come into the storeroomeach morning and get the suppliesthey needed. In some of the com-panies, studies were made to ascertainthe time required by these field forcesto secure and also return supplies tothe storerooms. This was found tobe considerable in the aggregate, andthe next step was the establishmentof the so-called night-loading plan,whereby the employee left an order i9U0 Final Steps in Supply Distribution 281. i)iOCKING UPReplenishing the portable shelving units carried in the traveling storerooms each evening for the supplies heneeded the next day. The storeroomforce collected these orders each nightfrom the trucks in the adjacent ga-rage, selected the materials from thestoreroom stock, and placed theneeded supplies on each truck. Atthe same time the storekeeper pickedup the recovered material. This re-duced considerably the time requiredby the field forces to secure and re-turn supplies. As the types of supplies becamemore diversified and operating refine-ments permitted quicker installationsof service for customers, it becameapparent that the operation of tele-phone company storerooms was notthe best answer for many places. Theaverage large storeroom carried about1000 to 1500 different types and sizesof telephone materials and tools, while the Western Electric Company dis-tributing houses normally stocked twoor three times as many. Rapidstrides were being made
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