New business module: Negotiate Automatic Inventory Refill
You can now negotiate AIR* agreements
As you see, there are also "i" (info) buttons for all new actions, but here is how it works:
- The large button on the top enables you to negotiate new deals (AIR).
- Bellow it you will have the list of items for which you already have AIR deals.
Relevant information displayed are:
- current max buffer: how many items the supplier agrees to restock you every morning.
- expected max buffer: how large can be this buffer if you renegotiate now (taking into account your progress in Negotiation and the improved business relationship).
- minimum an maximum discount you can get if you renegotiate. Warning! These discounts depend on your Negotiation skill, business relationship and stock turnover, but there is no warranty your Negotiation skills will be at peak level. You may have a bad day and use only half of your skills.
- current discount. When your supplier refills your inventory, he will offer you a discount so your costs will be X% below market prices.
How it works
If you click the large button on the top, the supplier will evaluate you and, if you have a good business history together, he may offer you a new AIR deal.
Each offer mentions a maximum buffer stock and a discount to be applied when your inventory is refilled.
Note!
The agreement enlists a number of terms and conditions, but these are always the same (non-negotiable).
Once a new AIR agreement is signed, the new item will be listed in the screen and you can even re-negotiate your discounts if you believe you've been unlucky.
Here I re-negotiated my agreement, but I must have got tired because my discount dropped a bit (from 1.93% to 1.92%)
PS:
Minimum discount depends on business relations, inventory turnover and 50% of your negotiation skills. Maximum discount depends on business relations, inventory turnover and 100% of your negotiation skills. Exact discount you get depend on how well you managed to focus during negotiations (so luck).
So this is how AIR deals are negotiated
What do you think?
Note! There is also a mini-story, that starts when you click the "Negotiate Automatic Inventory Refill", but I didn't included screenshot as I think it needs more polishing.
By the way, I am thinking of renaming "Negotiate Automatic Inventory Refill" as "Automatic Restock" or "Automatic Inventory" or "Automatic Stock". To you think these are better names? Or do you have any other suggestion?
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* AIR stands for Automatic Inventory Refill and this is the solution I came up with for inventory automation. See my previous post for some details.
