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SUPPLY CLERK

Specialty Definition: SUPPLY CLERK

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Occupations

Receives, stores, and issues equipment, material, supplies, merchandise, foodstuffs, or tools, and compiles stock records in stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard: Counts, sorts, or weighs incoming articles to verify receipt of items on requisition or invoices. Examines stock to verify conformance to specifications. Stores articles in bins, on floor, or on shelves, according to identifying information, such as style, size, or type of material. Fills orders or issues supplies from stock. Prepares periodic, special, or perpetual inventory of stock. Requisitions articles to fill incoming orders. Compiles reports on use of stock handling equipment, adjustments of inventory counts and stock records, spoilage of or damage to stock, location changes, and refusal of shipments. May mark identifying codes, figures, or letters on articles, using labeling equipment. May distribute stock among production workers, keeping records of material issued. May make adjustments or repairs to articles carried in stock. May determine methods of storage, identification, and stock location, considering temperature, humidity, height and weight limits, turnover, floor loading capacities, and required space. May cut stock to size to fill order. May move or transport material or supplies to other departments, using hand or industrial truck. May maintain inventory and other stock records, using computer terminal. May be designated according to material, equipment, or product stored as Camera-Storeroom Clerk (motion picture); Oil-House Attendant (clerical); Wire Stockkeeper (steel & rel.); or work location as Wine-Cellar Stock Clerk (hotel & rest.); or stage in manufacture of material or goods as Finished-Goods Stock Clerk (clerical); or container in which goods are stored as Drum-Stock Clerk (clerical). May receive and store incoming shipments of yarn, thread, or jute stock and verify color standards of shipment and be known as Color Standards Clerk (clerical). May be designated: Custodian, Blood Bank (medical ser.); Food-Storeroom Clerk (hotel & rest.); Hogshead-Stock Clerk (tobacco); Material Stockkeeper, Yard (petrol. & gas); Mold Picker (rubber goods); Paint Stocker (aircraft mfg.); Pattern-Room Attendant (foundry); Printing-Plate Clerk (print. & pub.); Sack Keeper (clerical); Template-Storage Clerk (clerical); Refrigerator-Room Clerk (clerical). May receive, store, and sort unserviceable equipment and supplies for sale, disposal, or reclamation and be known as Salvage Clerk (clerical). (references)
 Dispenses supplies in beauty parlor or barber shop: Counts, sorts, issues, and collects articles, such as towels, drapes, combs, brushes, curlers, and nets. Washes combs and brushes in antiseptic soap solution and places them in sterilizing cabinet. Dilutes concentrated shampoo, rinses, and waving solutions with water according to instructions. Dissolves cake soap in water to make shampoo. Assembles materials, solutions, and equipment specified for individual treatment, such as facial, permanent wave, and manicure. Maintains perpetual supply inventory and lists items needed to replace stock. Sweeps floor and tidies rooms. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SUPPLY CLERK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-k-l-l-p-p-r-s-u-y"

-3 letters: pluckers, resupply, scullery, sprucely, supplely.

-4 letters: clerkly, clypeus, cruelly, cullers, cuppers, plucker, puckers, puckery, pullers, pulleys, pulpers, purples, ruckles, scruple, sculker, sculler, scupper, suckler, suppler.

-5 letters: clerks, cresyl, culler, cupels, cupper, cypres, cyprus, lucres, peplus, plucks, plucky, plyers, pucker, pulers, puller, pulley, pulper, pulser, purely, purple, purply, pusley, ruckle, spruce, sprucy, sucker, suckle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SUPPLY CLERK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 55 50 50 4C 59      43 4C 45 52 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010101 01010000 01010000 01001100 01011001 00100000 01000011 01001100 01000101 01010010 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#80 &#80 &#76 &#89 &#32 &#67 &#76 &#69 &#82 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 0050 0050 004C 0059      0043 004C 0045 0052 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53555050465923746395245

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2. Orthography
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