I’m the assistant buyer on our home goods team, still learning the ropes, and I’ve been wrangling sample requests in Excel, but it’s getting messy. If you’ve got a lightweight system or template that logs who requested what, ETA, and feedback after the fit/quality check, could you share what’s worked? Bonus if it plays nice with Monday or Google Sheets — our next line review is in two weeks.
I’d spin up a Google Form that writes to a Sheet with columns for requester, vendor, sample ID, ETA, received date, status (dropdown), and a Drive link for photos/fit notes — it keeps the chaos in one tab. Then use Monday’s Google Sheets integration to create/update an item per row; when status moves to ‘Reviewed’, auto-notify the requester and attach the feedback link — my rule is ‘no sample without feedback’.