Inventory Day 2011
SparkFun is counting all the things. Unfortunately this means not shipping any of the things, for one day.
SparkFun is not shipping out any orders on Friday, November 4th. This is because we are counting our entire inventory that day. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
It's not AVC, or Open House, or a Viking Funeral, but SparkFun has one last event this year: Inventory Day. Like any company dealing in physical goods, at least once a year we get to prove that we actually have what inventory amounts we think we have.
What we think we have.
For us, this proving is done by taking a physical inventory count annually. While we are looking at other methods to avoid the kind of event planning and disruption that we are going to experience this weekend, we're not there yet.
So nice and orderly.
What a physical count entails for us these days, is orchestrating all 135 employees to count all the units of each of our 2028 products for sale to you, our customer, plus the 1533 we have on hand to build with. We'll be going through the shelves, one by one, and comparing the counts with the quantities we think we have. If the match isn't sufficiently close, we get to count again to make sure we weren't mistaken the first time. On some products we will be writing off the lost amount. On others, we'll find a quantity that ended up somewhere in the warehouse that it shouldn't have been.
This is just the beginning...
So, please forgive us, and enjoy the new products post on Friday, knowing that your items will ship just a touch later than they would normally.
