RE: Consignment Sales

No matter the ERP system (BPCS, MAPICS, Enterprise 1, System 21, M2000,
etc), they all provide support for inventory consignment and sales from that
inventory.

Technically it is a snap.

However In my experience the biggest challenge is the timeliness and
accurate reporting, from the distributors, of Inventory Receipts and sales.
Could those of you supporting this approach comment on :
1. the conduit used to receive the receipts and sales data - email
attachments, direct data entry over a VPN by the distributor, FTP of files
via a VPN, EDI transactions, etc..
2. What incentive you provide the distributor for the reporting in a timely
and accurate manner.
3. How, and how often, does your firm verify the accuracy of the data from
the distributors.


Roy Luce

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-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces+lwl=ix.netcom.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+lwl=ix.netcom.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom
Jedrzejewicz
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:48 AM
To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] Consignment Sales

My company does a fair amount of this ...

1. Setup a warehouse in BPCS, in which the inventory under their management
is stored. Note that inventory in this warehouse should be reconciled on a
regular (monthly?) basis. You may want it to be in it's own facility; I am
not sure.

2. Setup a customer for the shipping warehouse, and a ship-to for the
receiving warehouse.

3. Use BPCS re-supply orders (type 9) - no sales or A/R impact - to ship
product from the primary warehouse to the distributor warehouse. This will
let you generate pick slips and bill-of-ladings, and track in-transit goods.
When received at the other end, use INV500 to receive the resupply order -
transaction type H (?).

4. The customers that pull from this distributor warehouse should be changed
to have it being their default warehouse. When the distributor pulls from
the warehouse, use a normal customer order, with the shipping warehouse
being the distributor warehouse.

Good luck.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx

On 10/7/05, Abdul Haque <abdul.haque@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> We are on Version 4.05CD and looking for change in our existing sales
> model. Currently we record all dispatch from Plant to Distributor as
> sales. In future, we want to record dispatch from Plant to distributor
> as "Consignment Inventory owned by us " at distributor warehouse instead
> of recording sales. When Distributor will send us detail of sales made
> to wholesalers/retailers out of consignment inventory send to them, we
> will record that as our sales in GLD. We will always maintain a minimum
> safety stock at distributor warehouse and want to track detail of
> consignment inventory in BPCS.
>
> Can anyone please advise/suggest us how best we can accommodate this in
> BPCS.
>
> Cheers
> Abdul Haque
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