Mike - You are right, and when I was working there they were starting to rely more on the big mega wholesale houses who had nearly everything in stock and ready to roll, but the shop's warehouse still existed. There was an ongoing struggle between dear old dad (the originator of the firm) who was to retire and the newer managers running the business regarding this warehouse issue. Old school vs new school.
Anyway, the other follow up posters here described what I've seen more often - a small shop inventory of mostly surplus, left over materials that is not tracked because it has already been job costed to some project or another. However, I'm trying to understand what the original poster was describing, which sounds to me like a tracked inventory treated separately from "jobs". Maybe for some types of service work this is a worthwhile effort. Maybe not. More opinions?
Radar
