Switched our shop's supply ordering from phone calls to a shared spreadsheet and cut delivery mistakes way down
We run a small cabinet shop in Boise with 6 employees and used to call in supply orders to three different vendors, which led to wrong items showing up about twice a month. Six months ago I set up one shared spreadsheet where we list what we need and the quantities, then send it to each vendor, and our order errors dropped to almost zero. Has anyone else moved their ordering to a shared doc, and did you run into problems getting vendors to actually check it?