RE: E-commerce Architecture

Real time inventory information at the point of sale is something a lot of
retailers of all sorts don't really have.  

This is something you can deal with through your inventory management
strategy or changing your software.  Opinions differ as to which is better.
Keeping track of inventory isn't ever exact.  The measure of success is a
combination of profit margin and minimizing back orders.  Knowing exactly
what you have on hand at any given moment isn't necessarily as important as
knowing you can fill orders in a reasonable time (immediately is best) and
you're not wasting money on excess inventory.  Not simple.    

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Ericson [mailto:Glenn-Ericson@att.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 7:29 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture
> 
> 
> 
> I  could  see this  if you do not have a back end  
> intergration to your
> production system which  should have these capabilities.
> 
> 
> At 09:17 AM 01/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Dean,
> >
> >>> IMO, the _ONE_ thing that your e-commerce approach is 
> missing is the same
> >
> >>> thing that most of them are -- real time ATP (available 
> to promise).
> >
> >I agree with your comments about "available to promise".  I may have
> >neglected to mention it in my original message but we fully 
> understand the
> >implications of late deliveries.  Late deliveries have been 
> known to happen
> >with normal store orders!
> >
> 
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