The Inventory Coordinator

Shop lights on

First one through the back door. Boots crunch on the gravel by the parts bay. Coffee from the shop pot, then a quick walk past the staging racks for tomorrow's installs — the Patel coil isn't in yet, makes a note to check receiving at ten.

Truck restock

Pulls the depleted-parts list off the tablet — six trucks ran low on capacitors and contactors yesterday. Picks the bins, scans each part to the truck number, and stages the totes by the bay doors before the techs roll in. Truck four needs a 5-2-1 hard start; pulls one from overstock.

Tech handoff

Techs come through for their totes. Two minutes of small talk per truck. The senior tech asks about an R-410A jug; pulls it, signs it out, reminds him to log the refrigerant on the job ticket. Brings the new apprentice a coffee because the kid forgot a thermos again.

Cycle counts

Pulls today's cycle-count list — A-class items, the parts that move every week. Scans bin by bin, count vs system, types the variance into the tablet with a reason code on each adjustment. No blind adjustments.

Receiving

The Patel coil rolls in on the supplier's truck. Counts against the packing slip, scans into the system, walks it straight to the install staging rack with a job tag. Texts the Purchasing Coordinator a thumbs-up so she can close her loop.

Returns and core charges

Processes the morning's returns from the trucks — two unused capacitors, a compressor core, a wrong-part contactor. Tags the core, files the credit request, and updates the bin counts so the next replenishment doesn't double up.

Lunch at the bench

Sandwich on the workbench by the receiving door. Listens to the dispatch radio in the background. Texts his daughter back about a school pickup time while he eats.

Kitting Thursday's installs

Pulls the install kit lists for Thursday — Patel coil, line set, lockout kit, drain pan, filter, condensate pump. Builds two kits on the staging rack, labels each with the job number and customer name, photos them into the system so the morning crew doesn't second-guess.

Min/max review

Sits at the desk with the min/max report. Three SKUs are bumping their floor every week — bumps the min, drops a request to the Purchasing Coordinator with the usage data behind it. One slow mover gets dropped from stock entirely.

Substitution flag

Tech radios in needing a specific zone valve that's not in stock — the one Purchasing flagged on the substitution call. Walks him through the approved sub on the radio, photos the part to him, updates the truck stock record so it isn't a surprise next time.

End-of-day staging

Walks tomorrow's truck restock list. Picks the slow-movers first so the morning rush is just bin-and-tote. Locks the parts cage, kills the bay lights one row at a time.

Close out

Shop quiet. Patel kit is on the rack labeled and photoed, cycle count is clean, truck four is back to par. Heads out the back door with the same coffee mug he's been using since he started.