We do that between our manufacturing facility, main warehouse and several other warehouse spaces (some seasonal) that we maintain in the towns around us. The truck may be loaded in one town but the inventory was transferred electronically to the main warehouse and the ASN comes from there which is what the customer sees. However, the warehouses I was thinking of were the 3PL's in Ohio and Illinois, a thousand miles from here. I know we talk about being able to fulfill orders from multiple locations as we put in our new warehouse system this year but I was curious if others had any luck convincing these fill and kill type customers to accept multiple, nearly simultaneous, shipments to improve their fill rate. It isn't a shipping cost thing, we pay the freight.
On Mar 22, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Michael Mattias/LS wrote: >> 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 > > > ------------------------------------ ... 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/
