Toyota / BT in the UK:

A technician's van is treated as a mobile workshop & any stock the technician orders for a repair / service or carries as stock will be on there work pda until its booked out to a job.

If a technician needs to do a stock transfer to another technician they have to ring the service desk & give there details plus the details of the technician the stock is being transfered to, service desk will check this with the technician receiving the stock & then do the transfer on the computer system.

Technicians can keep fast moving stock as replen parts & any of these booked out will be replaced on the nightly parts delivery drop of.

Stock checks are carried out roughly every 6 months at random by managment, all technicians parts stock be it based on site or mobile van is visable to all other service personal on the Toyota system.