curryj
Well Known Member
We sell milk, mostly in paper cartons and plastic jugs, and we ship most of it in plastic crates of the type that, if you're old enough, you may have used at one point in your life to store your record albums in. Our delivery people pick up the empties at the customer's location every time they deliver some full ones.
Up until now, we haven't been tracking these crates in our systems at all. They cost 3 or 4 dollars each, and because they're so handy for organizing things, building temporary displays, etc. we lose a lot of them - to the tune of a few hundred thousand dollars annually.
There's an industry initiative to look at putting a deposit / refund system in place to cover these.
I found a white paper on Container Management in World (attached), and it looks pretty good, but I'm not sure it's a great fit. It looks like we would need to set up all our items over again as full crates, and these would need all the pricing, discounts, rebates, etc. set up for them as well as the uncrated items. Also there's a process to fill the crates which would have to be run.
Does anybody else out there do something like this within World, maybe for pallets or soda pop shippers, and how did you set it up?
Up until now, we haven't been tracking these crates in our systems at all. They cost 3 or 4 dollars each, and because they're so handy for organizing things, building temporary displays, etc. we lose a lot of them - to the tune of a few hundred thousand dollars annually.
There's an industry initiative to look at putting a deposit / refund system in place to cover these.
I found a white paper on Container Management in World (attached), and it looks pretty good, but I'm not sure it's a great fit. It looks like we would need to set up all our items over again as full crates, and these would need all the pricing, discounts, rebates, etc. set up for them as well as the uncrated items. Also there's a process to fill the crates which would have to be run.
Does anybody else out there do something like this within World, maybe for pallets or soda pop shippers, and how did you set it up?