RE: Excluding customers from Sales Analysis/Forecasting

This may be overkill but...

If you used DRP, and set up each salesman as a 'depot' or stockroom, you
would have a mechanism for salesmen to order stock for samples (pull or
push), have it allocated, picked and dispatched as any other order, but not
invoiced so no Sales Analysis update.

However salesmen would have to confirm receipt into their stockroom (more
work but maybe a useful control?), and issue samples from their stockroom
(bulk for month or by customer - again maybe useful info?), again no
invoice.

Regards

Peter Joel
Saltway Ltd
+44 7884 306501

-----Original Message-----
From: system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeff Klipa
Sent: 13 January 2004 16:34
To: system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [SYSTEM21] Excluding customers from Sales Analysis/Forecasting

Good answer...  Nice creative thinking outside the box...

You could also ship out the Sample Parts under a different part number and 
flag that "S" part to not update Sales Analysis...

However, you would be required to manually move the inventory from 
production part to "S" part...

It's difficult to imagine giving away that many samples as to have that big 
an impact on the forecast...  Either they're giving away the store or 
they're not selling very much or profit margins are really tight or some 
combination of all three...

Correction to my original post, I said "less painless" and I meant to say 
"less painful"...

----Original Message Follows----
From: Steve Dodkins <Steve.Dodkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: System 21 Users <system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'System 21 Users'" <system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [SYSTEM21] Excluding customers from Sales Analysis/Forecasting
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:02:37 -0000

Maybe you could use a kit part parent which has the child part you require,
at zero invoice value but with the sales analysis flag set not to update
sales analysis?

Steve

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