Re: Promotional Give-away

Also Patrick,
COM historical retains the promotion/contract information.


MBBWCPP  Historical Customer Order   Contract number              BWD1NB
MBBWCPP  Historical Customer Order   Contract/promo indicat       BWHQST
                     Status: 0       = Promotion
                     Status: 1       = Contract

Hope this also helps.







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                    10/31/01 12:25 PM
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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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