Simulated workplace
Department
Buying and Stock
Buys at the wholesale flower market and direct from growers, receives and checks every delivery, conditions stock, monitors cool room temperatures, rotates stock and records wastage, so that designers always have fresh, correctly identified material to work with.
Responsibilities
What the team is accountable for
- Place grower and market orders against forecast demand
- Receive, inspect, identify and record every delivery
- Condition stock: strip, cut, hydrate, treat and label
- Monitor cool room temperatures and stock rotation
- Record wastage and report quality problems to suppliers
Performance measures
How we know it is working
6.2% of stems
Wastage
99.1%
Cool room checks completed
14 this quarter
Supplier credits raised
People
Who works here
MC
Mei-Ling Choo
Buying and Stock Coordinator
Buys at the wholesale market three mornings a week and owns stock receival, conditioning and cool room monitoring, in her fifth year here.
Systems
Where the work is recorded
Stock Intake and Cool Room Log
Records every delivery of flowers, foliage and plants with condition grades and wastage, and holds the twice daily cool room temperature readings for each site.
Incident and Hazard Register
The controlled record of every injury, near miss, hazard, chemical exposure and vehicle incident, with investigation findings and corrective actions to closure.
Scenarios
Assessment tasks in this department
Documents
Documents the scenarios use
- Cool Room and Temperature Monitoring Procedure Procedure
- Equipment and Chemicals Register Register
- Incident and Hazard Report Form Form
- Stock Quality and Freshness Policy Policy
- Stock Receival and Condition Check Form Form
- Stock Receival and Conditioning Procedure Procedure
- Work Health and Safety Policy Policy