The other thing to ask is "Can we buy some COTS product to do this for us?" Implementing VMI is a job of work. If you were able to drop something in like Manugistics (as an example) to handle it for you it might be a lot of help. This would drive your EDI requirements for the 852 as well.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl Galgano Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:51 PM To: 'Karen Brasier'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [EDI-L] VMI question Karen: Take a step back and forget about the EDI here. How would you do this without EDI? I think you are on the right track here. Are your products seasonal? Is past sales a good indication of future sales trends? Do you need to manage the inventory down to the store level (ie different stores may sell different amounts), what are your lead times to ship or produce your product? How is your current sales forecasting system being fed? I would think the 852 has the movement data that it needs. Someone in your organization does this manually now, I would be sure to pick their brain. Is your plan to automatically send an 855 to the customer when you determine they need product? cjg Carl J. Galgano EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 770-422-2995 www.ediconsulting.com 600 Kennesaw Avenue Suite 400 Marietta, GA 30060 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Brasier Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] VMI question We are going to do our first 852 and begin managing a customers inventory. I will need not only to accept the 852, but to create a VMI system on our 400. I have been reading about Vendor Managed Inventory, and studying/planning BEFORE I begin the coding, so I don't end up 99% complete but having neglected a huge piece for this system and having to start over. In the vendor managed inventory systems, once I set up and load the original file from the vendor that gives me their Upc cross reference with our items.. The minimum stock desired. The maximum stock desired. Date of last order. Re-order inventory point. And I will be receiving from them the current committed to sell, the quantities sold...should I keep those for future reference, or just calculate the quantity on hand bottom line to use. Do any of you who have created one of these vendor managed systems (rpg iseries here) have any suggestions for what information to retain permanently from the 852 trans? Does our forecasting for them come into play here? If so, we would have to keep track of sales trends per orders.... Just kinda thinkin' out loud here.... any input or suggestions would be appreciated... we are JUST at the very beginning here... Karen Brasier . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
