RE: Promotional Give-away

Hmmm...the trouble I can think of here is that you would have to produce 2
pick lists for the shipment. Since we also use our customized pick as a
shipping document (yeah, I know), we couldn't make this work.

I thought this would work until I looked at shipping. Am I overlooking
something, or an option to consolidate warehouses with one pick list?

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: aldg [mailto:aldg@mail.rvi.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:25 PM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Cc: Gershen, Al
Subject: 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
>


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