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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 6 Aug 1999 01:33:39 GMT
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Larry, have you ever checked into offering your expertise to Lego in setting up a
proper bulk ordering process that would be easy enough for those thickheaded
people to realize they'd be making a healthy, noticable addition to their profit
line?
Just think, you could take your payment in train parts ;-)
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Sanjay D'Souza wrote:
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> > > Suppose you had? You could have ordered a lot more with the profits. The
> > > larger the order, the less cost to TLG to fill it.
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> > The effort involved in ordering pieces is more than you can image.
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> Doubtful. I have a very large imagination. Don't forget that I've seen
> some incredibly broken business processes in my day, it's what I do for
> a living.
--
| Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp
| Please do not associate my personal views with my employer
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| (...) I have thought about it but unless I could show a business plan that, based on quantitative factors alone, delivered more marginal profit than their current approach, I suspect it would fail. From a purely quant perspective, it's not enough to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Doubtful. I have a very large imagination. Don't forget that I've seen some incredibly broken business processes in my day, it's what I do for a living. (...) I'd gladly wait 6 months to get 10,000 windows. I'd gladly sit down and formulate (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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