SaleShade Operations · Allotment

The material set aside for each order, on record

Material set aside for each order, quantity by quantity, with a photo of where it sits. Shortfalls raise their own flag — nobody's memory required.

A pallet by the shutter, and one man who knows whose it is

Walk into your godown and look at the pallet by the shutter.

Somebody set that material aside for an order — and the only place that connection exists is in the head of the man who put it there. He knows. He is also allowed to fall ill, attend a wedding, or leave for a better salary.

Two promises, one stack, and nobody decided which one to break. It broke silently.

The old way1

He sets it aside

and the connection lives in his head
2

He is away

ill, at a wedding, or gone for a better salary
3

Somebody picks from it

for a different customer, with no malice
4

The shortage surfaces

at packing, or at your customer's site

Allotment gives the pallet a name

Order — allotment
ItemOrderedAllottedWhere it sits
Soft-close hinge 110°200200Bay 4 · left rack
Drawer system 450 mm6060Bay 2 · pallet 7
Cabinet handle 192 mm12080Bay 4 · by shutter
40 pending · discrepancy raised
The pallet has a name, and the shortfall flagged itself.
Illustrative view of the allotment stage. Quantities are examples.

When an order is confirmed, material is allotted against it — recorded quantity by quantity, against each line of the order.

Not "roughly that stack." This much of this item, for this order. From that moment, the pallet has a name that does not live in anybody's head.

A photo can be attached to the allotment: where the material physically sits — bay four, left rack, by the shutter — or which stack belongs to which order. Finding it no longer needs the man who placed it.

Quantity by quantity

This much of this item, for this order — not "roughly that stack."

A photo of where it sits

Bay four, left rack, by the shutter. Finding it no longer needs the man who placed it.

Not a register kept beside

Allotment is a stage of the order itself. The record is a by-product of the work.

A shortfall raises its own flag

Allotment does not pretend the stock is always there.

A partial allotment is allowed — and it quietly does two jobs at once. The pending quantity is recorded, so what remains owed is a number, not an impression.

Discrepancies surface from reality, not from somebody remembering to flag them.

1

80 of 120 allotted

a partial allotment is allowed
2

40 pending, recorded

a number, not an impression
3

Discrepancy raised

by the shortfall, not by memory
4

The desk decides

the person who can ring the customer

What happens after the flag is its own question.

Nobody picks from somebody else's stack

The quiet failure allotment ends is the borrowed stack: material set aside for one customer picked for another — no malice, just a rack with no names on it — and the first order's shortage surfacing days later, somewhere expensive.

It is order material, and the record says so to everyone who opens the order — the desk, the manager, and you, from wherever you happen to be.

A rack with no namesThe old way
  • Borrowing is invisible — material set aside for one customer, picked for another
  • No malice anywhere — just a stack that never said whose it was
  • The shortage surfaces days later — somewhere expensive
A pallet with a name
  • It is order material — and the record says so to everyone who opens the order
  • Borrowing stops being invisible — the moment material carries an order's name
  • The desk, the manager, and you — from wherever you happen to be

Running more than one godown, the same record runs per godown.

Every allotment leaves a stamp

Behind every allotment sits the quiet record: who allotted it, and when, to the minute — with the photo where a photo settles the argument.

Trail — SO/26/1184
AllottedHarjit S.Tue 3:12 PM80 of 120 · photo attached
Discrepancy raisedsystemTue 3:12 PM40 pending
Allotment revisedHarjit S.Wed 10:04 AM40 added from receipt
Nobody wrote this. Each line is the act of doing the work.
Illustrative view. Times are to the minute, and no line can be edited after the fact.

The act itself makes the stamp.

A godown you can read without walking it

Named pallets. Recorded quantities. Pending amounts flagged by the system instead of remembered by the staff.

The godown stops being a place that only one person can read.

Allot one live order, attach one photo, and watch the pallet get its name.

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