RE: Promotional Give-away

Dang, I wish this would work. But I get back to the tracking aspect. How can
I tell that this sale was recorded from a particular location for
performance monitoring?

I am leaning towards creating a new item number in the system (going on the
promotion item idea) and selling the "new" item as a free one, doing IA
transactions before the pick is created. Then I can track what customers
received this particular item. Item and order comments will let everyone
know that this was a free item, inventory will be controlled through the IA
transaction, and I can track the performance of the promotion to how many
"free" items are shipped out.

Anyone find anything glaring wrong with this? I'd appreciate any further
feedback or ideas. Everyone has helped spur my thinking so far!

Patrick


-----Original Message-----
From: McCready, Joan [mailto:Joan.McCready@metaltekint.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 3:01 PM
To: 'mapics-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Promotional Give-away


Patrick -

If you need them on the same pick list, how about a new "location" in the
warehouse for the promo items. Then you would move four items from the main
location to the shipping staging area, and one item from the "promo"
location. Would that also capture the information?

BTW, this would mean you probably couldn't let the system "pick" from the
default location - there would be more work on the part of the shipping
clerk, but the two-warehouse system would require the same thing.

Just a "brain storm!"  -- Joan

Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
MetalTek International         fax:  636-479-3399
The Carondelet Division        www.metaltekint.com
8600 Commercial Blvd
Pevely, MO  63070


-----Original Message-----
From: Shrader, Patrick [mailto:pshrader@wkep.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:53 PM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: 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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