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Controlling work flow issues?
when it comes to getting work what would be peoples recommendations be on controlling work flow. i.e
if i do one job at a time it wont work out economical as once the job is complete i may have no work to go to.
how far do you stretch in you diary for the jobs to be done?? i.e is it OK to stretch about 3 months?? -
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Three months!!! – You’ll have no customers.
If they can’t get in under three weeks they’d look elsewhere!
I normally work within a two week system – going outside that for ‘special orders’ that may well be at the mercy of MY suppliers giving me 2-3 week lead times.
If you can get a job out NOW then do it NOW…no lead time – no waiting.
If you can get a deposit or full payment up front TAKE IT.Dave
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only situation i can think of, is if your doing say 300-400 shops like Currys, you want to schedule that up
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I work on up to 5 or more different jobs at a time in order to use materials and time as efficiently as I can.
My average job starts production on a Monday and is ready for delivery or pick-up by Friday. Painted jobs take a bit longer, but still my longest time out is about 10 days. I only do cut vinyl and traditional painting, with an occasional outsourced print.
If I took longer than two weeks I would have no customers left either.
I can see something specialized like carving or fabrication of something welded/routed/channel letters taking longer.
I also have a small dry-erase schedule that I write all my jobs/deposits/etc on when I remember to do so.
Love….Jill -
quote Dave Rowland:only situation i can think of, is if your doing say 300-400 shops like Currys, you want to schedule that updang!!! That’s where I went wrong!!
Oo
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Stuart why would you want to try and stretch to 3 months? That would be a lot of work and probably quite difficult to control.
How many jobs do you think you will be able to do at a time? Don’t forget you aren’t going to suddenly get lots of jobs all at the same time and the jobs are unlikely to be all the same so you will find that you have a number of jobs on the go that are all at different stages.
Don’t wait until you have completed all the jobs you have on the go before you start to look for more work either if you can help it. -
quote Stuart Green:when it comes to getting work what would be peoples recommendations be on controlling work flow. i.e
if i do one job at a time it wont work out economical as once the job is complete i may have no work to go to.
how far do you stretch in you diary for the jobs to be done?? i.e is it OK to stretch about 3 months??Sorry, but you are talking boll0cks 😀
each job should be done as a viable proposition, and costed as such.
why would you want to wait 3 months for your second job?Peter
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I understand your problem Stuart. How do you cope with a workload that stretches 3 months ahead. 😮
Do as I do and raise your prices so that you haven’t got such an enormous demand for your time. You might even make a small profit too 😕
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quote Stuart Green:how far do you stretch in you diary for the jobs to be done?? i.e is it OK to stretch about 3 months??😮 😮 😮
I work on a 2 week basis…………but,
I have any number of jobs on at any one time and I have to constantly rearrange my work schedule. Some customers need trucks or plant and machines lettered within a very short lead time, so I rearrange things. That’s just the way I work.I also have ‘hospital’ jobs which are jobs that aren’t too dependent on a quick delivery time and I drop onto these when the other stuff slacks off, I have had jobs in the shop for a year or more like vintage vehicle lettering jobs or honours boards.
You don’t control your work flow, your customer does…….. 😕
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We complete work as soon as we possibly can will stretch larger jobs out to 2 weeks but if someone walks in off the street and wants something the same day we will do it if its possible. With finding new work this is something we do constantly – when fitting new signs we always take a walk up and down the street handing out leaflets and generally introducing ourselves – its a constant juggling act but isn’t that why we like it !
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do not procastinate do it as soon as you can, if I booked some one for three months I wouldn’t be doing the job some one else would have done it 🙄
Lynn
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