If you're giving huge discounts and drop shipping why even have
distributors? They add no value to your product.
On 12/5/2017 4:32 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
I'm getting really sick of distributors asking me for a deep discount,
extended length net terms, and to drop ship all of their orders to
their customers. There's a reason why we haven't gone down this path.
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com
<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Distributors that dont maintain accurate web based on hand/out of
stock are the devils condom. I hate them. The only thing worse is
the ones that lie and you get an order in with a "drop ship from
mfg" F those guys, they take your money right quick, thats for sure
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:27 AM, <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
We offer dry storage, sequestered inventory and order
fulfillment to all distributors so they can stock at our
warehouse, ship from our warehouse, and keep from paying
double freight (for the galvanized steel parts). Some take
advantage of this and some don't.
-----Original Message----- From: ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 9:26 AM
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Jeff Evans query?
We try, our restock level is approx equivalent to a 30 day
inventory, but we
are constantly having runs on one particular part or another
and then when a
distributor wants something dropped we don't have it and they
attempt to
blame us.
The main reason to use a two tier distribution network is so
that the
distributors have inventory, not us. That is how they add
value. Otherwise
I would just sell direct.
We build to forecast and to order but the channel that stocks
is the channel
that gets the sales.
Some of our distributors are much better than than others with
this.
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Hoppes
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 9:22 AM
To: ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Jeff Evans query?
Wouldn't this be on you to make sure you have proper stock
levels to
absorb the 20-30 day time frames?
I know there have been times when I've waited to get mounts
because they
were drop shipping but "we didn't know when the supplier would
have the
parts in".
On 12/5/17 11:14 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
wrote:
I got a note from a guy saying that Jeff Evans was looking
for stock on our tower mount products.
Some of our distributors stock, some don’t. We have most
of the stuff on our e-commerce site but it is MSRP. You
get discounts from going to the distributors.
Not sure if there was a specific product in question or
not. I don’t have visibility into the inventory levels of
my distributors so I can never answer as to what they may
or may not have. If you hit me off list I can give an
opinion as to who may have them.
I will say this: those distributors that do stock sell
much more than those that don’t and expect us to drop ship
for them. We may not always have the stuff depending on
production cycles. We have a huge unknown in the cycle
due to the galvanization. Sometimes the company that dips
the parts can turn them around in 2-3 days, other times it
is 20 or 30 days.
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