Murano Glass Bead Trays – Barcoded & Priced in Color Waves
‘A place for everything, and everything in its place.’ is the famous quote by Isabella Mary Beeton in her book of Household Management written in 1861. It’s a great philosophy, but with some 20,000 SKUs, it’s easier said than done.
When we began importing Murano Glass Beads, we named them after the bead maker, their children, vaporetto boat stops, favorite cafes. Our bead makers named the designs after artists, famous names in Venice which encouraged our lack of organization. We had only a few drawers of beads. But over time we grew! Tanya took on our beads as a project in her senior year in Business Management at the University. So began our ‘semi-intelligent’ SKU assignment.
Venetian Beads – Melanie Picking Orders
But the physical location of beads in an orderly fashion took a few more years. We all remembered where items were stored by sheer memory. And I confess to loving how the beads looked in drawers so I could see all the colors of a style when I opened the drawer. And seeing bunches of beads together made it easy to design jewelry. But it became apparent that it made for inefficient storage. Then we began the Location/SKU assignment and bar coding. This was key when we went to lots of bead shows, as we couldn’t remember prices for 800 pounds of beads we took to shows and sometimes exhibiting at 2 shows at the same time. Our bar coding let us check customers out quickly, accurately, giving them an itemized list of what they bought, along with SKUs for reordering online…certainly a novelty in a bead shows.
Locations and Alpha-Numerical Makes Picking Orders is Easier
Picking Orders – For All of You!
Picking is made easy with our rolling carts with all the supplies you need to pack an order. We all have our favorite cart!
Venetian Glass Beads, Organized
These little white cubicle boxes are where orders with problems go. This is not where you want your orders to linger. We send emails through our online store system to you or call to let you know.
This is not where you want your order to go! The problem boxes.
There’s more, we’re just trying to organize it. There are always the “orphans” the beads that have no mates, the I thought I ordered Red, how did these green beads arrive? And many other projects just waiting to be put on the web. And an abundance of design projects in various stages of completion.
So maybe we’d better read Mrs. Beeton’s book, again! ;>)
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This sounds like me trying to organize my beads, except I don’t have as many (darn it!!). I wish you luck, I get sidetracked in the looking, too!
I think maybe the problem is that creative people have trouble organizing – we just love the way they look in heaps!
Very impressive! I love when I’m searching for just the right bead and come across one, saying: Oh, my goodness, I forgot I bought these! They will work perfectly!
We all love when we find jut the right bead ;>)