cci primer shortage response

Bobby: 'shortening the business cycle' is great in theory. But in the world the rest of us live in it doesn't work. Consumers are hard to engineer into the nothing in stock mode so when they see what they want they buy lots. The retail with no stock has none to sell so no sales. Then the computer says we sold none of item X so none is ordered. Never to be sold there again until someone in management wakes up. No stock=no sale. This is the cycle. The person that writes the textbook prob. never managed a sporting goods store but read a lot of books. This is the way small and mid size retail are going, then all are pissed at wallyworld which stocks what people want. Our local gun guy never went to school. I just got 10k each of 205m, 210m and215m from him on christmas eve. Granted we cleaned him out but he was not concerned and said more were on the way. Cost was $35/1000 average. I don't care too much if that was a 'deal' as my time is worth something. Mark
 
Contract logistics, "Just in time" replenishment's - all very commonplace.

Like BobbyIronsites said - this is all in the name of streamlining business. No extra facilities required for storage, reduced staffing, contracted distribution direct from vendor, etc. The manufacture doesn't care who buys them or how they are distributed - as long as they make their quarter.

Yeah, it sucks. Next time buy bulk.
 
I took business at school... let’s just say you can forget everything you studied and throw that out the window and then welcome to the real world of business… I fell into the trap of just in time... like they teach at school now I have no stock in specific items and no forseeable delivery time...

Biggest problem here in Canada is lack of people producing products we need, the fact that we have to pay american dollars for just about everything, and lack of canadian warehousing of products.
 
msg.drew said:
I took business at school... let’s just say you can forget everything you studied and throw that out the window and then welcome to the real world of business… I fell into the trap of just in time... like they teach at school now I have no stock in specific items and no forseeable delivery time...

Biggest problem here in Canada is lack of people producing products we need, the fact that we have to pay american dollars for just about everything, and lack of canadian warehousing of products.
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100% true IMHO. My suppliers have learned the hard way that I can order goods just like they can. But first I check in with their compitition to see if they have it sitting on THEIR shelves. I want stuff now, and if I have to wait for someone to order it, I can pick up the phone just as easy as they can.

Perhaps they need to teach the concept of the impatient consumer in bean-counter school......
 
My philosophy is... someone contacts me about a product I like to have it paid for within 30 min to an hour and out the door same day... most of the time if people would like something I am selling it will be shipped same day if they get a payment here before 4.30 because thats the cutoff time for canada post pickup. If a person has to wait around they often back out or dont bother... I am the same way when ordering from my suppliers if the don't have it when I phone then I dont bother buying it. Nearly everything I have forsale is imported from the USA. For example I call my wholesaler they dont have a product instock but they can get it by ordering it for me... well so can I so I get it... it costs a bit more but I dont have to wait for them to get enough people calling in so they can put a big transport truck order in.

Bigest problem right now is getting the stuff everything seems to be backordered

Another thing I hated when I was dealing with stores was you pay for something and then it takes a company like wholesale a week or two to process it and ship your order. I hate that...I want prompt and fast serivce and I deliver that to my customers so what sometimes I cant match wholesales prices but I can deliver faster and better service then they can.
 
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