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| The Old Way |
The Cir-Kit Way
(Our very special service for educators) |
| Step 1 |
You spend time sourcing components and supplies from a multitude of distributors. |
Step 1 |
You submit your complete component and supply list to Bill Steinkemper, our Cir-Kit Sales Manager. |
| Step 2 |
Your Purchasing Department must contact each supplier for price and delivery information. |
Step 2 |
He researches the list and provides a quote for the entire order. (You are not limited to the items in this catalog.) |
| Step 3 |
Multiple Purchase Orders must be placed, adding significant hidden costs to the procurement process. |
Step 3 |
Your Purchasing Department issues only ONE Purchase Order |
| Step 4 |
Your components and supplies start to roll-in, but your receiving department gets bogged down with the process of checking everything in. |
Step 4 |
Your parts and supplies are delivered. They are already neatly pre-packaged and ready to hand out to each individual student. Each package contains a packing list. |
| Step 5 |
You finally start getting your supplies, but there are problems;
A) One of your suppliers has missed your delivery deadline, so you can't start the lab on time since you don't have the correct supplies
B) Another supplier has shipped everything except there is a discrepancy between what you received and what the supplier invoiced. You or your Purchasing Department spend 3 days discussing the issue before the supplier agrees to ship the missing parts on a no charge shipment which arrives a week later. |
Step 5 |
You start your lab ON TIME. |
| Step 6 |
You finally get all of the components and supplies three weeks after you had scheduled to start the lab. |
Step 6 |
You invest the money you've saved on "New Eyeglass Prescriptions" (See Step 7 under "The Old Way"),in the Stock Market. |
| Step 7 |
With everything now in hand, you are ready to begin dividing the parts up and distributing them to your students. This process will take several hours, because all of the resistors, transistors, IC's, etc. have to be separated out of the original shipments piece by piece. You find that someone has mixed 8 different resistor values in one bag so you spend 4 hours reading the color codes to separate them by value. (This causes you to visit your optometrist for a new eyeglass prescription.) |
Step 7 |
Your Stock Market Investments pay-off very, very big, you take early retirement and move to your new villa in Hawaii. |
| Step 8 |
You turn the lab over to a teaching assistant, you go on a leave-of-absence, to recover from the stress. |
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