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June 18, 2008
Bookstore Gets Pretty Demanding
As you know, this is about my least favorite time of year - Physical Inventory at both the physical plant stores and the bookstore are happening this week and next. Nathan is generously loaning us 6 laptops again this year for the bookstore's inventory. We used them last year and it was a HUGE improvement over those "Telxon" handhelds we used previously. The main advantage of the laptops is that they can stay connected to the server, so if someone attempts to count an item that doesn't match with the bookstore's data, it immediately gives an error. Then Kris can fix the error right then and there. With the Telxons, those errors accumulated in the counting batch and you would not see them until the batch was loaded onto the system. The only information you would have for an error was the batch number, the count, and the cost. Kris and I spent hours looking for the actual items that weren't in the system correctly. You might think the new method would make me happier, and it does, but it is still a ton of work.
In addition to physical inventory at the bookstore, we're still up against the deadline for getting the encryption software going. We should be getting an install CD from MBS next week, and it looks like either Friday am or pm we'll be doing that install. It's a beta release, but I've got my fingers crossed. Encryption is one of those black and white things - either it works or it doesn't, no middle ground. We should know pretty quickly which result we get.
Our new printer is on campus, but not yet installed. Soon, very soon....
Yesterday morning early, I applied the finishing touches to the 2008.1 upgrade (it was supposed to be done Monday night, but I forgot so had to get up at 6:00 am and do it before the store opened). This means that our system is A-1, up to snuff, with the most recent MBS software there is.
Anyway, the bookstore has a lot going on right now. It's always fun and challenging.
Posted by rossm at June 18, 2008 9:57 AM
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