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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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is a simpleclerical job easily performed by anyemployee. Ihere is hardly an employee of theBell System who does not have occa-sion to use some items of stationeryand printed forms in a normal work-ing day. While the unit value ofmost of these items is small, in theaggregate they represent a consider-able sum. In view of this compara-tively low unit value, it is essentialthat the supply distribution plan op-erate in such a manner as to pre-clude, so far as practical, the neces-sity of placing orders for less thanstandard package lots. A close bal-ance must be maintained between thevalue of the supplies being ordered,the average investment, and the costof placing, filling and transporting theorder. During the past several years muchprogress has been made toward co-ordinating these elements, and thecost of distributing these supplies isbeing brought within practical limitsas related to their value. Here againstudies of the requirements at each 19^0 Final Steps in Supply Distribution 289
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SUPPLIES ON HANDThis is a typical centralized storeroom serving a large rural territory location enabled the telephone com-panies to set up authorized quantitiesand types of supplies to be carried.Stationery lockers at principal loca-tions, with the shelving labeled withitem names or form numbers and theauthorized quantities, make the prep-aration of the periodic replenishmentorder a simple job. In many companies it is customaryto have stationery and printed formsstocked only at the district offices.The smaller locations and the indi-vidual employees are supplied fromthe district office stock as the needsarise. What Happens in Emergencies Ihroughout the Bell System thesupply organizations have workedout, in cooperation with the operatingdepartments and the personnel of the Western Electric distributing houses,smooth-running, efficient routines,adapted to conditions in their ownterritories, for getting supplies totheir destined locations when and asthey are required. And although thisa

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