Makes me think of being in the Army. This was actually a problem we solved pretty well, using nothing other than hand-written paper receipts and property record

Makes me think of being in the Army. This was actually a problem we solved pretty well, using nothing other than hand-written paper receipts and property records. It was solved by doing hand physical counts every single time you moved anything or opened a room or box or vehicle, and holding whoever signed for the number on the receipt the value of the missing items if anything was missing. Granted, there was a limit to what you could be held responsible for. I was responsible for breaking the main gun on an Abrams tank once and the sticker value was a bit over $120,000, but luckily they could only charge me a single paycheck.