RE: Supplier Managed Inventory

Steve  ---- we've been doing VMI for 2 years now but have not gotten much of
a return on a huge investment.   We continue to do VMI with one customer (5
branches).    You'll need to be able to process 855, 810, 861, 852, and 856
to get VMI going.  You will also need sales history which is a non EDI
transaction.  You will need the VMI engine to forecast and create orders
(ours runs on an NT machine). Then you will have to write the procedures to
glue it all together.  We had Custom Systems Corp enhance EC to handle the
852 and 861.   Our 856s are done with a user written program (outside of
MAPICS).   

The mechanism works OK but we have not seen the increased business that we
expected.   Think twice because it is a big investment in time and money.

Greg Wenzloff
717-762-9141x246

-----Original Message-----
From: sjones@hpproducts.net [mailto:sjones@hpproducts.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:39 PM
To: MAPICS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Supplier Managed Inventory


We are in the investigation stages of doing some Supplier/Vendor Managed
Inventory.  Does anyone have any experiences with one of these programs?
How did you handle it within MAPICS?  Would be interested in any wisdom you
may give us before we travel too far down the path.

Thanks in advance

Steve Jones

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