Fabrication shop question!

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i have a question for Fitter in medium to large fabrication shops, when your boss give you a new project, a new dwgs and start to brief you about the project, is your ''main'' materials is already ordered and in the shop without thinking about material missing during the project or you have to make a order list and ask for odering what you need and find something to do while you wait 1 day for your stuff? where i work we are working with my 2nd option, wich i think its really waste of time to ask the fitter calculate all the material needed for the job, no one look at the dwgs before the fitter to look if we have the require materials!im not complaining here, i won't go to the boss office next week to ask ''change this and that'' im juste wondering sometimes how others shops work and its easy to ask that here!Calculator > Bevel Square
Reply:The boss figures the cut lengths and orders the material, lower paid apprentices cut/ prep everything. The fitter puts it together and a welder just welds all day...works good for usUA local 32Team weld-coolTeam miller elite tack upMiller pro-staff
Reply:Welcome to the forum, friend.Somebody has to do it. That depends on how large your shop is.  If you have a small shop with 10 people, material management isn't too critical since you're not going to keep a large inventory. In that case I'd say the lead fitter is a very good person for the job. The owner/manager has more productive things to do with his time.I think, instead of complaining about the extra responsibility, you should take pride in the fact that your boss trusts you enough to delegate the task.Materials should, of course, be ordered as soon as a down payment is received for the job. That's something you should tell your boss, to get you the plans as soon as possible.
Reply:thanks for the responses, i'll say again im not complaining, and already take a lot of good experience and advantage of those ''extra'' responsability that they gave me about ordering materials, having the company cell phone and do the comunication between the shop and the field, and ordering grinding wheels, drills ect..I understand that just want to know some ''common'' way others shop work!i've done welding school 2 years ago and and now take every day at work like a day at school and keep in my mind everything, tips and trick!Calculator > Bevel Square
Reply:I prefer to make my own lists, atleast if something is missing there is no one to blame but myself.