Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

72 EFFICIENCY METHODS the store-keeper and the purchasing agent when more is required—and how much to order. Generally the reduction to a certain quantity, something above the minimum, is marked to form the “ ordering level.” The primary ideas which obtain in scientific management are certainly of assistance in attaining these two aims, though it would seem at first sight that the carefully kept store-room is a necessity, easily installed in any systematically managed works. But where the idea of function is developed, it follows that a certain individual will have store- keeping assigned as his work, and that he will be allowed to issue stores only according to the written iastructions of a few other individuals. He will very likely have clerks under him for ledger entries, and these will probably be located in the planning department rather than the shops. He will also have a “ move material boss,” with a gang under him, to take the stores issued to their proper des- tination. The stores sent out will be always ap- proximately the correct quantity needed, so that there can be little waste; and by being entered on some form of material order-sheet they can be debited at once to the job for which they are required. There must be at least three copies of the material order-sheet, one going with the material to its destination, in order that the individuals by whom it is received should know the purpose for which it is intended; the second to the planning department for their records of progress; and the third to the costing department,