Field note
Your shift register already knows why Line 2 stopped
Downtime is written down on every shift. It rarely reaches the person who can fix the cause by the next morning.
Why the weighbridge slip is the first number we trust
A purchase order says what you meant to buy. The weighbridge says what arrived.
In most plants we visit, the stores ledger is built from purchase orders and corrected later. A supplier invoices 24 tonnes, the order said 24 tonnes, and the ledger says 24 tonnes. The weighbridge said 23.4.
The difference is small on one truck. Across a month of inbound loads it becomes the gap that stores and accounts argue about at every close.
The slip is measured, not agreed
Every other number at the gate is a promise: the order, the supplier’s delivery note, the invoice. The weighbridge slip is the only one taken by an instrument, at the moment the material crosses into your plant.
So that is where we start. In the diagnostic we follow one slip from the gate to the ledger and count how many times it is copied. In delivery we capture it once, at the weighbridge, and every register downstream reads from that record.
What changes for the stores team
The storekeeper stops reconciling. Stock in the system is the weight that came in, less what production has drawn, and a physical count becomes a check rather than a rebuild.
Accounts see the variance against the order on the day the truck arrives, while the supplier can still be asked about it.
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