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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:09:12 EDT
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- From: Richard W Wiggins <RWWMAINT@MSU.BITNET>
- Subject: How do you manage per-copy orders?
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- We now belong to several HESC groups, including AIX ones with various
- items shippable with per-copy fees. I'm trying to figure out how to
- manage orders from individual departments across our campus. As far as I
- can tell the following is true:
-
- -- There's no way to specify a "ship to" address as I order something
- under HESC. All individual orders will come to me (the lucky HESC
- coordinator).
-
- -- All HESC deliveries are undifferentiated. I can't tell whether the
- box that just arrived was shipped due to order "A" or order "B".
-
- If both of these are true, I can't picture how to manage this. I'll get
- a flow of orders from departments, and a flow of boxes, but no way to
- tie the two together. I could set up an inventory database showing "I
- owe unit X 3 copies of product 1234-5678" but things get split into
- multiple shipments (manuals separate for instance) so this could get
- complicated. If I could have an "ATTN:" field on the mailing label it'd
- be so much easier.
-
- I understand that a big part of HESC is the central point of contact on
- a campus. That's a lot easier to deal with when we're talking copies of
- VM/ESA than when we're talking tools that may go on a bunch of RS/6000.
-
- If someone has a good plan for coping with this please let me know. I
- hope I'm missing something obvious. Send me private mail if you'd prefer.
-
- /Rich Wiggins, Michigan State U
-