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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:33:22 GMT
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Lego used to offer a bulk service. How could they do it 10 years ago and not
today?
john kelly wrote in message ...
> (Sorry for the length of this thing....)
>
> Well said.
>
> When I was in Enfield, I had the misfortune of having to be on the element
> team in a rotation. (We all had to share some of the element misfortune on • a
> rotating basis.) It was very very tedious. It would take all afternoon • and
> sometimes all day for the element team to be able to place an order. You • need
> to find what the part numbers you need are. You need to find the color • code.
> You need to find if the US had it in inventory. (Phone call to inventory
> manager, he looks at his book for the type of piece, then at another book • to
> see if he has in inventory, then confirms it's on the shelf.) Call back to
> you. If not in Enfield, send note to Demark. Wait for reply. Call again • and
> try to reach someone on phone who speaks english. Confirm product. (If • they
> have it. if not, too bad.) Get shipped on boat to US. (Wait 4-6 weeks for
> delivery) It was miserable.
>
> Unless LEGO has gotten better logistics for inventory since I left, they'd • be
> crazy to try to bulk order. They don't have a strong enough system to meet
> the demand. Should they update the system? SOunds wonderful. Will they?
> doubtful. LEGO tries hard not to have excess inventory in bricks, they • very
> rarely had anything other than basic bricks available in the US. Other • parts
> were special ordered, but more often than not they will still be • unavailable
> in the quantities needed to build a model. So we'd scrap that idea and • find
> another way to do it. You might be able to get LEGO to do bulk ordering of
> bricks through a centralized source, but I would doubt you'd be able to get
> anyhting other than 1x and 2x bricks and plates. There just isn't an
> inventory position on any other pieces that would satisfy a world market. • And
> you would need to order hundreds of K8's to make a molding run worthwhile • to
> LEGO.
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> (We tried as a model shop and we could not find a use for enough bricks to
> make the run worthwhile to us and we bought at production cost. The only • run
> we ever made was for 50 K8's of black Duplo 2x4 blocks because they were
> running them at the time.)
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> Now with most model shops being eliminated or cut back, there is even less
> demand for any pieces outside of what they need to produce the sets. • (Enfield
> model shop from around 35 to 9 last month as part of the fitness program.)
>
> As a member of GMLTC, there is nothing more I'd like than to be able to • bulk
> order grey 2x10s. Nothing is more fustrating than being able to build with • as
> many grey 2x12s and green 2x4s as I wanted and then be reduced to red 2x4s • for
> landscape. I hope that someday they firgure out a way to do it. But my • guess
> is that they have evaluated this with better information than anyone here • has
> and found it to be not worth the inventory risk.
>
> -john 3
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> In lugnet.general, John Neal writes:
> >
> >
> > Tim Courtney wrote:
> >
> > > <snip flame>
> > >
> > > There's ABSOLUTELY NO POINT in carrying this any further.
> >
> > The facts as I see them:
> >
> > 1. Sanjay had some good fortune
> > 2. Many envied Sanjay, although were happy for him
> > 3. Some perceived a little gloating
> > 4. Sanjay is a good guy
> > 5. Larry is a good guy
> > 6. Most (all?) would love the opportunity to order bulk
> > 7. TLG is clueless
> >
> > Tim is right; we are getting out of hand. Hurtful things are starting to • get
> said
> > and that's not how to play well:-)
> >
> > -John
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| They have changed strategic direction, pleasing individual customers is not a priority once a company has established its dominance in the marketplace. It was always a lego CSO that was not designed and not required to show a profit. The next (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (Sorry for the length of this thing....) Well said. When I was in Enfield, I had the misfortune of having to be on the element team in a rotation. (We all had to share some of the element misfortune on a rotating basis.) It was very very tedious. It (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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