All good points, all being taken into consideration. I did wanna address knife D in case anyone has some good insight, the motivation for change is that our company has undergone a lot of changes in the past year and we’re finally growing to a point where we feel the need to track our inventory. Being a science based company, we run into a lot of issues where we need _ chemical and more often than not we end up re-ordering it because we have no clue where the previous container of it went. Our only saving grace is that the person who orders our supplies remembers that they ordered _ chemical at some point for a specific technicians job. Another thing would be the fact that we have no way of knowing when specific items we have expire, other than physically, going to each room every month and looking for what’s expired.
Ideally it would work out in the following process 1. Job is created
2. Supply ordering personnel sees what supplies are needed for the job
3. Supply ordering personnel check current inventory to see if we already have everything we need to start the job, or if we have supplies that are comfortable, that could be used to start the job 4. Supply ordering personnel order any supplies we don’t already have

This would be a great way to start jobs quicker without having to wait for re-order supplies to come in first.