I keep a stock of the basic shirts in inventory ... youth and adult sizes, white and ash, short and long sleeve. Since we do sublimation also, I have those on hand, also. For quick jobs it is definitely convenient to have inventory at your fingertips.
The consideration then becomes "the investment vs the convenience" ... I am lucky enough to have the resources to keep an inventory on hand ... For colors or specialty shirts, we do order those in as required, but it definitely slows down the turn-around time ... especially when my sales people order the "exact" number, leaving me no accident-proof back-ups ... and we all know, accidents do happen ... that's where my "test-pieces" box came from!
The consideration then becomes "the investment vs the convenience" ... I am lucky enough to have the resources to keep an inventory on hand ... For colors or specialty shirts, we do order those in as required, but it definitely slows down the turn-around time ... especially when my sales people order the "exact" number, leaving me no accident-proof back-ups ... and we all know, accidents do happen ... that's where my "test-pieces" box came from!