I so miss working for a small business. So many completely unnecessary hoops to jump through just so all the numbers look better on a PowerPoint.
Before: buy 1000 lb of solder twice a year
After: buy 200 lb every month paying much more per pound because we don't get the price break anymore, but it makes it makes the graph look smoother
To really drive home why this drives me nuts, we also put our flux on the same system reducing our purchases from 55 gallon drums to 5 gallon containers.
It's only been a few months and we've already run into issues where we ran out of solder a month or so ago, and just ran out of flux in the past week.
9 years I've worked here and this is the first time we've had these issues.