Spreadsheet
Glen has made a spreadsheet up of all the permutations and combinations of shirts I make. There are over 600 different combinations.
This makes it perfectly clear why every time someone asks me if I have a 3-6 month white shirt with a green NZ, I always say "no" and need to make it for them. The chance of someone asking me for a shirt I already have printed is (complex mathematical equation do do do do sound)
1 in 46.7 billion.
I need to streamline my systems.
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Yes, same here. And then we got Malo's lurgy.
It was a lovely time though, and next time you'll have to stay so that Tinks can get rat-arsed too, and not be the one who remembers...
"I need to streamline my systems"
I can't recommend muesli & dried fruit highly enough.
sounds a lot simpler than the alternatives.
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To make it more complicated:
Have you ever considered doing adult sizes too?
- The Douros
I've got a head for sin and a bod for business.
So no.
I don't often admit this, but I'm actually a mathematician. The formula to figure out all the permutations isn't complicated.
It should be:
(# of different shirt sizes)x
(# of different shirt colours)x
(# of different print types)x
(# of different print colours)
Not complicated at all.
I did 7th form stats, and that is truely the only thing I learned.
or truly.
Christ.
I wouldn't worry about stock levels on the assumption that part of the value of the product you're making is its rarity and uniqueness.
Of course, if you were going to make a lot then you would want to cut down the options dramatically because each different stocked item adds to your costs because of the extra cost of holding that extra item.
A useful trick might be postponement. Is it possible to half make some shirts so that its possible to decide which exact shirt they become later on in the process?
Or you could just advertise the fact that you make them individually and that becomes part of the cachet of having one. You'd probably want to find a way to manufacture a customised shirt as quickly as possible.
(Can you tell I have a commerce degree in Operations Management that I never get to use?)
Sarge, I like your way of making "slow" sound like a thing. Although that is exactly what I'm doing. And by slow, well, I only take a day to complete.
And yes, I have managed to streamline it a bit - all tops tagged and labelled to a point.
I would never have even been able to imagine what a degree in Operations Management before today.
Can you tell I have a degree in Art History and Politics? And almost a PGDipBusAdmin (end. Comms) - I throw that in every chance I get - so many letters!
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