Pull a card and get back to work
No login, no typing, no software to open.
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- Austere ManufacturingMachined specialty buckles
Logging parts in and out is the first thing to go when you're slammed.
Then the shelf is empty and no one knows why.
What changes for you
The card does the remembering
The front bin empties, the card is right there, you drop it in the reorder bin. It works with gloves on or paint on your hands.
- No app to learn.
- It frees you, it doesn't monitor you.
It gives the team a voice. Instead of just saying to their manager, ‘Hey, I need this part,’ and they go, ‘Okay,’ go back to their desk and forget about it for five days... They bring the card over to us, and we scan it, and then it gets right to the purchasing team.
Someone scans the batch later
You never have to scan or type. Someone runs the cards through a QR workstation, the way you scan groceries.
- No card, no order.
- Drop it and forget it.
Your rollout
- 1
Cards go up
On the bins you use most.
- 2
Pull and drop
When you reach the minimum.
- 3
Back on the shelf
Restock arrives and the card returns.
What usually worries people
My guys won't use another system.
They don't have to. Nobody on the floor logs in, navigates, or types. You pull the card when the bin hits its minimum and drop it in the reorder bin. Someone scans the batch later, the way you scan groceries.
Is this here to check up on us?
The card is there so you don't have to remember. It records that a part ran low, not who was slow. Mostly it settles the argument about why the shelf was empty.
I scanned it last time and it still ran out.
Then the minimum on that card is too low, and that is a number problem, not your scan. Arda's own guidance is blunt about it: if a part stocks out twice in ninety days, raise its minimum. The number is printed on the card, so it is a one-line fix and a reprint.