How much time does your team waste chasing consumables? Gloves. Screws. Pens. Drill bits. Tape. Small stuff. But the frustration is massive.

A coastal engineering business in Tasmania solved this with a dead-simple system: two-bin Kanban.

How It Works

1. Every consumable has two bins
2. When the front bin empties, you pull it out
3. Behind it is a second bin with more stock AND a card
4. The card goes to the "on order" board
5. Once a week, the apprentice walks the boards, collects the cards, fills out a tick sheet, and places the order
6. When stock arrives, cards come off the board, product goes back in the bins

5+ Years Running

That's it. Running for over five years. No more chasing. No more "who used the last drill bit and didn't tell anyone."

The discipline: when you see a card, it goes on the board. No exceptions.