Two papers, and the arguments inside them.
One makes the case for measuring consumption at all. The other sets out what a controlled toolstore does, what it will not do, and what you get. Each has a page here with the argument in summary, and the full document to download.
The Cost of Not Knowing
You know what you bought. You do not know what you used. The gap between the two is real, continuous, and never appears under its own name — it surfaces months later as a budget overrun, a slipped schedule, a write-off or an audit finding, in four departments none of which can see the cause. Written in two parts: why this is worth doing, and whether it pays at your site.
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Controlled Toolstore
What the platform does at the point of issue: custody and issue control against a person and a job, in-date gating that stops an out-of-date item leaving the store, a certificate trail behind every transaction, and replenishment that runs off what actually moved. Also what it does not do, and what is included.
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Both documents are set as A4 and read on screen or in print. Nothing is gated — there is no form in front of either of them. The questionnaire on the contact page is the only thing here that asks for your details, and it is a different transaction entirely.