Blue Door Warehouse

In the back alley at work we have a warehouse that we call the "Blue Door Warehouse."  It has (as you might have guessed) a blue door.  We also call it the "Old HGF Warehouse" because before we moved all the materials to the blue door warehouse they were in the office building that used to house HGF's offices.

It has books and marketing materials.  The books are mostly partial boxes that our real warehouses don't really want to store and one or 2 full boxes of each title so we have some more accessible.  It also has most of our marketing materials: t-shirts, buttons, pillow cases, folders with materials about how great we are, etc.

In December 2012 we planned to do a full inventory of all warehouses, including that one.  The inventories of our 2 "real" warehouses were completed in December and we are on schedule to finish the blue door warehouse physical inventory tomorrow.

It doesn't help that the person hired to do the inventory has worked 4.5 hours in the past 3 months, but some interns have also been helping.

After the inventory is done then some of the items need to be reorganized because they weren't all put back in a useful place.  Hopefully we can use the hired help for an extra pair of hands to do that next Monday or the Monday after.  It's going to be really nice to have that finally finished.

Of course, in September we are scheduled to move the office 15 minutes away, but the warehouse isn't scheduled to come with us.  After 7-8 months of getting everything in order we are going to be a 15 minute drive from all of the materials we need to have access to.  Mostly we need them so they can be boxed and shipped out.  I don't know if the plan is to box them up from the current office or drive them to the new office first.

I can't figure out why they aren't moving the warehouse and why they don't expect that our staff will need to be near the warehouse basically every day, sometimes several times per day.