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WAREHOUSE

Fifteen people work here — six in the office,
eight on the warehouse crew and the Mine Gar-
age Parts Supervisor. The warehouse area com-
prises warehouse 1 & 2, a supply area for the
Mine Garage, the Oxygen Shed, Propane Storage,
and an open area for storing parts and compon-
ents.

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ACCOUNTING |

The main function of the Accounting Department
is to accumulate and process all records relating
to the costs of running the Mine Operation. Mon-
thly cost statements for each-department are pro-
duced from this information, showing their actual
operating costs for the month as compared to
their budget. This assists all departments to con-

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COMPUTER

trol their costs and as a result, for the Mine to

The department warehouses for every part of the produce fibre at the lowest possible cost.

Cassiar operation and holds a two month supply
for stock maintenance. Production equipment,
spare parts for shovels, drills, etc., are kept up at
the Mine Garage.

The warehouse crew handle northbound freight,
issue stock and unload shipments for the townsite

and the retail store up to the point of the dock.

OFFICE MANAGER CHARLES MacQUARRIE
who is responsible for the administration of the
accounting and payroll departments, the ware-
house, computer department and the general of-

SYSTEMS ANALYST — LAURIE BOGUSKI

se There are two ‘Microdata’ Reality mini computers

on site to handle all the data for the accounting,
CUSTOMER payroll, warehousing, employees file information
ete and the financial part of the engineering. The

computors are affectionately named “Big John”.
and “‘Edith”. ~ -

“Big John” has two discs and is the central pro-
_cessing unit for input, processing and storage of
information on the discs..““Big John”’ processes at ©
night. The data can be retrieved via the printer,
tape or terminal. The terminals activate the sys-
tem and there are various “accounts” which the
user can lock into it. Thus, it can be used by in- .
dividual departments, such as warehousing or ac-
counting.

ASSISTANT STORES SUPERVISOR
JOHN GWILLIAM

“Edith” is a single disc mini-computer and han-
dies all the data for the warehouse and engineer-
ing departments, whereas “Big John” handles ac-
counting and payroll. — :

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Receptionist, copy room clerk and
three janitors make up the general
office staff.

Faurie is the Systems Analyst and is responsible ’
for the user department. The computers were in-
stalled about two years ago and have eliminated
laborious day to day functions which were pre-
‘viously performed manually.

The warehouse system is being completed. Soft-
ware consultants did the programming and it has
been revised and updated as far as the systems
user is concerned.

UNLOADING
AT WAREHOUSE NO.2

COST ACCOUNTANT — STAN DEYO
RECEIVING AND SHIPPING AREA

Laurie reviews with the user what is required and

ACCOUNTING OFFICE ee : does all the changes with documentation..

| PAYROLL

The main function of the payroll department is to process employee time
records and to ensure that all employees are paid the correct amounts in
accordance with the four Collective Agreements in effect for the operation.

Installation of the computer has reduced the pre-

paration time of monthly statements by about
two weeks.

STORAGE AREA }
IN WAREHOUSE NO.1

4

WAREHOUSE OFFICE work invol-
ves record keeping relating to inven-
-tory. The staff also work on
accounts payable processing in-
voices. J > ~?

RECEIVING DOCK

PAYROLL OFFICE

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OPERATION OF COMPUTER TERMINAL 3
IN PAYROLL OFFICE ° Bore

COMPUTER PRINT—OUT

om LARGE MACHINERY

OPEN STORAGE AREA STORED IN WAREHOUSE NO.2