yes, it is also functional as "part shear/exchange".

I have some parts I think definitely is spare, like 1000 hc244, 4000 green
smt led.
could put into inventory for exchange parts I need.







----- Original Message -----
From: "James Newton, Host" <jamesnewton@piclist.com>
To: "'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'" <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 9:55 PM
Subject: RE: [PIC] Managing parts inventory


> I don't suppose anyone would be interested in developing an online
inventory
> management program that we could all use? With piclist.com as an
> "applications service provider."
>
> The advantage of your inventory, my inventory and everyone elses all being
> in the same database is that when anyone adds information about the part,
> everyone benefits. E.g. If Howard takes the time to type in the properties
> of a chip, and I happen to have that chip in my inventory, now "my"
> inventory program knows more about the device.
>
> If people were willing to put in what they paid for a part and where, then
> everyone could buy from the lowest cost supplier. This is something my
wife
> does for groceries, etc... And she shares information with a few people in
> the neighborhood. They call it a "price book" and it just records what
they
> paid and where. They share the book around and use it to plan grocery
> shopping. One of the advantages of being a "stay at home mom."
>
> In our case, it led to a co-op for purchasing in volume which we do
> regularly. There are catalog companies for food that will only accept
orders
> of $500 or $1000. Our friend Tammy gets everyone's order and money
together,
> places the order with the company and then sorts out the orders for each
of
> us when they come. I know there have been times when people on this list
> have gone in together on large quantity orders to get a good price or
> because the product was restricted to large qty orders.
>
> Anyway, I've been thinking about that sort of thing for a long time and I
> have a web page about it:
> http://www.piclist.com/idea/website/pricebook.htm Rather than try to
explain
> everything here, go take a look at the page and see if anything makes
sense.
>
> I will copy this one part from the page: "I already have a spread sheet
for
> each of the kits I sell that knows about minimum orders, shipping costs
and
> quantity discounts for each part, then it figures out the absolute best
set
> of orders, from one, or many different distributors, for a given number of
> kits I want to put together." It is cool as hell to change the quantity of
> kits I want to put together and watch it change from "order everything
from
> mouser" to "order this stuff from mouser, this from digikey, this from
> Jameco" and know that it is always, for sure, the lowest possible total
> price without me having to do figuring.
>
> That sort of thing could easily be added to an online inventory program.
And
> again, sharing the data helps everyone.
>
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