Re: Promotional Give-away

Hi Patrick Shrader:

> "Marketing called this morning wanting to know how to track a new
> promotion for excess inventory."

> "Any ideas?"

There are probably several ways of accomplishing this.

One that comes to mind would be to transfer some promotion designated inventory 
to a new Warehouse Number set up for promotion inventory only.  When the Sales 
Shipment (SA) Inventory Transaction is recorded, show four (4) shipped from 
your regular warehouse number and one (1) shipped from the promotion warehouse 
for that particular sales invoice.

You then can query the promotion warehouse to capture history information about 
promotion shipments to specific customers.

I've never done this in practice but I believe it may be a workable idea.

Please let the Mapic ML know on the method that you finally decide upon under 
this subject thread.

Regards,
Al Gershen
Grants Pass, OR
aldg@mail.rvi.net

---------- Your Original Mapics ML Message ----------

>From: "Shrader, Patrick" <pshrader@wkep.com>
>Reply-To: mapics-l@midrange.com
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:43:35 -0500

>Good morning!
>
>Marketing called this morning wanting to know how to track a new promotion
>for excess inventory. For specific customers responding to a mailing, we
>want to offer a "buy 5, get 1 free" promotion. Furthermore, we want to track
>the success of this promotion.
>
>One thought that I had initially was to have customer service key the five
>case order on one line at regular price, then key a second line with an
>overridden price of 0. However, while this gives the customer what they are
>due, it does not give us performance information on the success of the
>program.
>
>How can we identify for historical sake (and using MMA) that the sale was
>part of the promotion, rather than just a "normal" sale?
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Patrick Shrader
>White Knight Engineered Products
>Arden, NC 28704
>