I don’t want to have 200 individual boxes on my dock every afternoon to ship.
I would rather have 5 large pallets to distributors each day. We charge them a
surcharge for drop ships.
From: Keefe John
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 3:37 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Jeff Evans query?
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> 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> 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
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 9:26 AM
To: 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
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 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.
--
Forrest Christian CEO, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.
Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602
forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com
