> 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?
Unfair! That's a completely different subject! (which is 'the role of the customer when a seller is using a Public Warehouse' - which Mrs. Halpin posits as 'highly involved' and I maintain is 'nil') But it's your lucky day....it just so happens I have a client with that exact scenario. (Auto parts; and they also use the term 'fill and kill') They use a warehouse several miles down the road to stock things for which they have no room in their main picking/shipping facility. What they do is, every night they generate a list of all the things they have to ship the next day, or for which the inventory level is too low in the 'primary' warehouse . The first "order" which is picked in the AM is handled by a guy driving a truck down to that warehouse at 6:00 AM with a list of stuff to bring back. True enough, that other warehouse is owned by my client, but there is no reason it has to be so... that could just as easily be a 3PW .. in which case when that list is generated in the evening? It would be formatted as an ANSI 940 warehouse shipping order, transmitted to the warehouse, and the material would be ready for pickup the next AM. My client's customers don't need to know this; and they really don't care. I suspect your customers would be in a similar position. Michael C. Mattias Tal Systems Inc. Racine WI [email protected] ------------------------------------ ... 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/
