While I agree with your statement's purpose wholeheartedly...what do you do about the customer who will accept one and only one shipment against their order? Fill and kill, we call them, and it describes nearly every wholesale account we have. We would love to fill. their order from more than one warehouse to improve our fill rate, but how do they do that when they accept no backorders and only one shipment per order?
On Mar 21, 2013, at 8:07 PM, Michael Mattias/LS wrote: > 3/21/31 > > >Not in my world. Customer tells supplier what warehouse/3PL/DC/PDC/etc. to > >use... > > ??????? > > Then your world must be located in Anaheim, CA...right next door to > FantasyLand. > > When you keep inventory in a third-party warehouse (often called a "public > warehouse") that 3PW may as well be just another "bin > location" or "distribution center." > > What's the difference if you store inventory in the same building where you > are located, or in another building down the street? > Customers don't tell you in what bin location or which building to store your > products; and customers don't tell you you cannot RENT > that other building and use contract employees to do your picking and > shipping -which is exactly what you are doing when you enter > into a contract with a 3PW. > > Does it matter to - would you even tell? - your customers it was a Kelly Girl > rather than an employee who typed that last letter you > sent? So why should it matter if a Kelly Girl picked and shipped his last > order, and would you allow a customer to specify that? > > Look up the X12 transaction descriptions for these documents... > > 940 Warehouse Shipping Order (You to 3PW) > 943 Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipping Advice (You to 3PW) > 944 Warehouse Stock Transfer Receiving Advice (3PW to you) > 945 Warehouse Shipping Advice (3PW to you) > > ..and maybe you will get a better handle on what public warehouses are, how > they work, and how customers are simply not part of the > equation at all. > > Michael C. Mattias > Tal Systems Inc. > Racine WI > [email protected] > > ________________________________ > From: Michael Mattias/LS <[email protected]> > To: EDI-L <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 7:54 PM > Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: Document order > > >I am the customer. I chose the third party warehouse... > > This is where we are out of sync: No, you don't. > > Given there are three parties in this transaction.. > Seller > Seller's third party whse > Customer (buyer) > > The customer does not pick the 3P whse; the seller does. The customer > typically will not even know the whse is a 3P whse, as > merchandise will often be shipped with Seller's paperwork (BOL & packing > list). > > Seller may elect to say "we can ship that from our Detroit warehouse" and > that the "Detroit whse" might be a Public Whse and not a > seller-owned facility/entity never enters into the conversation between the > buyer and seller at all. > > BUT... > Customer never has a say (other than regular customer service feedback) about > whom Seller select selects as a 3P whse. That is 100% > Seller's call to make. > > You're saying any customer can tell a vendor whom they should use as a > janitorial service or from whom they should buy their copy > machines; but it don't work like that. A 3P whse is just like any other > provider of services to any business: the service user makes > a free-market choice of vendors. > > Michael C. Mattias > Tal Systems Inc. > Racine WI > [email protected] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
