I work in the administration department for a local school and my job involves looking after all the Office Products. This involves the ordering and processing of all the Office Products the school requires. Not just compasses in the Mathematics department or colouring pens for the Art department, my job involves liaising with the head of each department to find out what Office Products they need. Obviously, this can be a very time consuming exercise and I am constantly thinking of new ways to cut down on the time the job takes. My latest idea is to design a form with all the products a particular department requires on it. This will involve some input from the head of department initially to ensure that I am not thinking of ordering products they do not need, but once the form is agreed I think it will be much better in the long run if the departments can just tick what they want to order from a sheet. Luckily, this suggestion has gone down very well with everyone I have discussed it with and I am hoping to implement it across the school very soon.

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