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Hello. I’m Yasui, the president of a one-person company that primarily inspects high-pressure gas facilities.
While exercising today, a thought suddenly crossed my mind:
“If you can’t manage something, then you probably have no right to own it.”
Not everything has to be managed, of course.
Management is often thought of as a job in itself, but if there’s nothing to manage, then the job of management doesn’t exist in the first place.
So if you can’t manage things properly, you simply shouldn’t own them.
If you don’t manage people, you don’t need managers.
And if you can’t manage people, then you shouldn’t hire them.
It’s like buying a snowboard even though you can’t snowboard.
The moment you own things, management becomes necessary.
You don’t really need to track quantities, yet you feel compelled to do so.
Even if you count parts and record the numbers, without a system to actually manage them, it’s nothing more than a simple inventory check.
If you’re studying and applying something like Toyota’s Kanban system, that’s understandable.
But doing this kind of tracking without any real methodology is just a waste of effort.
Also, if you’re going to handle parts or gaskets roughly, then you’d be better off not holding any inventory at all.
They get scratched through careless handling, become unusable, and are thrown away.
And then you have to ask—who benefits from that?
Are you secretly working for the manufacturer? A spy, perhaps?
Those parts are consumables.
But while they are in our hands, they are still products.
They are no different from chocolate bars or canned coffee displayed on shelves at a convenience store.
You buy products with money, sell them, and money comes back.
Then you use that money to buy more products and sell them again.
That’s capitalism.
Money, products, money, products.
An endless cycle.
But once products are handled carelessly, they stop turning back into money.
As storage time passes, even brand-new items deteriorate and eventually must be discarded.
That, too, is a moment when products fail to become money.
Buy items and sell them properly—actually sell them.
If you can’t store them correctly until they are sold, it’s far smarter to purchase them after receiving an order.
This is important, so I’ll say it again.
Parts and gaskets are categorized as consumables as objects.
But for those who buy and sell them, they are products.
That means you need to keep them fresh and monitor their condition until the moment they are sold in proper form.
Even consumables like shop rags that we use ourselves will drive up costs if not handled carefully.
Management itself also comes with a cost.
These kinds of invisible expenses are easy to overlook.
But small costs add up.
Thank you very much for reading all the way through.
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