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Overview
Central Stores purchases, receives, warehouses, and issues all supplies, tools, materials and equipment needed by Physical Plant to maintain the University. We currently spend approximately $1,800,000 per fiscal year to do this. We have over 40,000 Sq. Ft. of storage space with over 7,000 line items in our inventory which is valued at just under $600,000. Central Stores is "invisible" to most students, faculty and staff at UCF but their work touches every aspect of their day-to-day life. Everything that makes a building work from light bulbs to toilet paper. The tools and equipment that a worker needs to maintain the building and every system that makes it habitable. From lawn mowers to the gas they use to the tools & parts the mechanics use to maintain the mowers.
Stores primarily works with two types of items, stock and non stock. Stock items are the half million dollars plus worth of parts that occupy our 40,000 Sq. Ft. facility. These are items that we know about how much of we'll need over a given period of time. We know that we go through 300 cases of rolled paper towels per month, so we keep a two month supply on hand or 600 cases. Same for nuts, bolts, light bulbs, toilet paper, electrical fuses, ballast and the rest of the 7,000 line items. We use purchasing cards and requisitions to purchase these items. For items we need infrequently/at unpredictable intervals, that do not have a long lead time to procure, we buy when we need them. Examples would be; parts to repair a broken mower, tires for a vehicle that are worn out, a special tool for an electrician. Normally a work order for a repair or service leads to a Physical Plant employee coming to Stores to order a non stock item. The request is received by our customer service person who passes the request to our assistant manager. The assistant manager finds a vendor and gets several quotes to make sure we get the best deal for the University that we can. The part is ordered using a purchasing card or requisition. Once the part arrives, it is received, issued and the paperwork is initiated to pay for the item. At any given time we have about $35,000 in parts due in to us (tracked by our warehouse computer system, Sprocket, and about $6,000 in pending actions in the People Soft computer system.
Your Stores Team
Stores Manager Dick Kerr (321) 229-6748
Assistant Manager Karen Jones (407) 823-3681
Assistant Manager Cheryl Sanderson (407) 823-2986
Assistant Manager Brandon Baker (407) 823-4449
Customer Service Jeff Haesemeyer
Receiving David Frosch
Stores' Accomplishments and Initiatives
Over the past year we've reorganized the warehouse to best utilize our space. We moved the low height, high density storage, to under the mezzanine area which is height restricted and well suited for the lower height shelving. In the area that was now opened up, we installed full height racking and increased our storage capacity by 144 pallet positions.
We completed a project to standardize our parts number system and match categories with UCF construction guidelines.
We also began the implementation of a new database management system, Sprocket.
In the coming year we will assist in the development of equipment lists for periodic maintenance and develop tools for projecting part and material requirements. This will play a key role in ensuring our maintenance team members are successful.
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