Backorders
This iconic date used to dictate a backorder item also is the date that Will Smith won the 16th MTV Video Music Awards for Best Actor
What is "09/09/1999"
This is used by the Assembly team to create assembly items and to manipulate items stock levels
What is a "Work Order"
This information is required when creating a new VRMA. (4 fields)
What is "PO, PR, INV, TR"
This acronym, SSD, indicates the date that we promised the customer to have their items shipped
What is "Sold Ship Date"
This is what S&P stands for
What is "Sourcing & Procurement"
This is what the Sisense report is called that is used to collect all open products that are marked as backorder in product admin
This acronym is used when we are missing a component but need to place the item on a PO in order to give the customer a date
What is "DWOPO"
This is what the report is called in Sisense that lists all open VRMAs
What is "VRMA Reason Dashboard"
This is the meaning of WIP
What is "Work In Progress"
This is the SLA to respond to internal emails for Purchasing
What is "4 hours"
These are the steps used to mark a product backorder (3 steps)
What is
"09/09/1999 the part on the PO
Mark BO box in Product Admin
Mark Customer Order in Order Admin"
Within the PTO report, this column of assembly items has all components in stock and is ready for a work order to be created
What is "The Build Column"
This is created when a vendor provides a credit against a VRMA in order to complete
What is a "VPC"
This acronym, VRMA, is used when product needs removed from shelf, in order to take further action without letting customers purchase. Also used, to go back and forth with Shane
What is "Vendor Return Merchandise Authorization"
This is used to show the company the delays that receiving might currently be facing
What is "The Morning Inbound Report"
These two reasons are why we would remove an item from backorder
What is "The vendor shipped and/or vendor provided a reliable ETA"
These market segments comprise products that are all within assemblies
What is "Genuine, Aftermarket, Perf-Other, Perf-ECS"
This is the timeline as to when we call a VRMA "dead" based on unresponsive vendors
Looking for amount of emails in a timeframe
What is "3 within a month"
This acronym, NFIS, is used to designate an item that cannot be sold on the site as a single item
What is "Not for individual sale"
This is the SLA for Invoice Discrepancies that are marked as Moderate
What is "48 Hours"
This is how often we follow up with web commits and non-web commits of back order parts
(2 answers)
What is "Weekly for WCs, a fortnight plus a week for non-WCs"
These orders are custom-made for the customer. We send them out to an outsource vendor. These orders should not be cancelled (but often are)
What is "Tiresource Orders"
These are the buckets that all of Purchasing is responsible for
What is "Short Ship, Drop Ship Error, Red Tag, Unknown Reason"
The acronym PDK, created by Pete Winegardner, allows customers to create their own kits on our site
What is "Pete's Dynamic Kits"
This is the metric/field the system uses to tell if we should stock an item or not
What is "RSL Min and Max"