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Would You Like to Search for ANY Brand of Product at WarehouseTWO?
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"I want to see inventory for brands that my company does not represent". This is a common request in responses to our annual user surveys. For this month's leading newsletter article, we respond to this request, and to other commonly asked questions from survey takers.
We thank everyone who participated in this year's annual user survey. We love the feedback. Scroll down to see who won our random drawing for one of five $100 gift cards.
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New Field Length Limits
With the goal of keeping search results more visually friendly, we have limited the length of text that can be uploaded into the "Part Number" and "Description" fields. Effective immediately, the contents of these fields will be truncated to the first 64 and 200 characters, respectively. Enough with the novellas in the "Description" field.
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Enhanced Functionality: "Show Seller Names" Now Includes Seller's Location City
When the "Show Seller Names" box is checked on the SEARCH page, the seller's location city is now displayed along with the seller's name, state/province and country. This should make it easier to distinguish between multiple postings by the same seller, in different warehouse locations.
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Member Feedback
"WarehouseTWO is a win-win. We get to fill our customer orders more quickly AND we move dead/slow-moving inventory. What more could a distributor want?"
Connie Hooper
Accutech Instrumentation, Inc.
Wellington, FL USA
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Featured Feature: Monthly "Activity Metrics" Email
Every month, our system sends member account administrators (and other selected email addresses) an email summarizing your company's activities at WarehouseTWO. The purpose of these emails is to prompt you to review your company's participation in "inventory-sharing" and to identify opportunities to gain greater value from your membership at WarehouseTWO.
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Upcoming Training
Our next round of five different training webinars is scheduled for Wednesday, November 15th and Thursday, November 16th.
Click here for session syllabuses and for links to register for any of these webinars. Space is limited, so register early!
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Distribution "Quip" of the Month
"Not normal" is the new "normal".
(Said when customer behavior, vendor behavior or general business conditions are consistently unpredictable.)
Got a favorite work-related quip? or a snippet of wisdom applicable to the world of wholesale-distribution?
Share it with us.
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WarehouseTWO Tip of the Month
Use WarehouseTWO's RELATED ITEMS functionality to automatically cross-reference between a manufacturer's dual part numbering systems. Many manufacturers have dual part numbering systems: a model number known to end-customers and shown in the manufacturer's product literature, and an unintuitive, "internal" manufacturing part number, often a sequence of digits. While it is best practice to post items to WarehouseTWO using the customer-facing model number,
RELATED ITEMS will allow you to post your items using the internal part number and have those items appear in search results at WarehouseTWO when another member is searching by the model number.
Click here to see an example of how this looks in a
SEARCH result.
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Winners of the 2017 User Survey Gift Card Drawing
Congratulations to these lucky winners of a $100 gift card, selected randomly from all responders to this year's annual user survey. Enjoy!
Ken Schmiedel, Highland Hydraulics (Highland, IN USA)
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Referral Rewards Program
The easiest way to get more value from your WarehouseTWO account is to increase participation by other distributors and manufacturers. Over the years, many of you have been loyal "evangelists", recommending WarehouseTWO to peer distributors, to manufacturers and to associations and marketing groups.
We want to encourage and compensate you for the results of your efforts. To learn more about our "WarehouseTWO Referral Rewards" program, and how you and your company can benefit,
click here.
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WarehouseTWO eNews Archives
October, 2017
"Improved Processing of User-Triggered Emails"
September 2017
"Mobile-Friendly" Website Pages
Increase Prices to Your Customers: If Not Now, When?
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Mental Gymnastics: Just for Fun!
There are six red-and-white striped socks and eight black-and-white striped socks in a dresser drawer. None are paired with other socks. The drawer simply contains a pile of two different colored socks, and nothing else.
The Challenge
Part #1: In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must you take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a matching pair of socks?
Part #2: Under the same conditions, how many socks must you take from the drawer to ensure that you get a pair of red-and-white striped socks?
Click here to submit your answer by Friday, October 24th, 2017. Only your first response will be considered. Correct responders will be entered into a drawing for three $20USD gift cards. You must answer both parts correctly to be eligible for the drawing.
To view the answer to last month's Mental Gymnastics challenge,
click here.
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Got something to ask or something to say? Want to learn more about how formalized inventory-sharing with WarehouseTWO can help your company be more successful?
Email us. Or call us at 1-650-329-1592 (USA Pacific time zone).
Enjoy your day!
Mark Tomalonis
WarehouseTWO, LLC
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