Welcome to the Vendor Requirements Page.

There is an evolutionary process in action at Last Resort Services Inc. right now. The boss is transitiong the company to supply another kind of product, which requires re-defining our business model. We say "evolutionary" because we did not commit to this change with a fully formed set of business processes ready to implement. Considering what we do (did) for a living, you might wonder why. Wonder no more. The one thing I have learned after working with dozens of companies over a few decades is you do not want to make too many assumptions when you have little or no information upon which to base your assumptions. So other than a few rudimentary rules of operation like "do not sell your product for less than it cost", we are in a "try things and see what works" phase of business process building.

A vendor is in very real terms a kind of customer from our point of view. The best way to keep a customer is to meet their pre-purchase needs and support their post-purchase activities. In terms of supporting our vendors as a group, an example of a question we need to answer is: "Do we implement the availability of internal credit lines for qualified vendors?". This might be more familiar to you having 30,60, or 90 days to pay for the product. On the face of it, this seems a no brainer but it is not. The administrative overhead for this service alone can increase the product cost across the board by as much as 15%. Does a Knacki Snacks vendor want to pay an additional 15% on everything he or she buys if they can pay cash just to support vendors who cannot. Time will tell. Thinking about it, there is one rule in place by default. Because there is no mechanism in place to provide 90-day terms of purchase, all sales are either advance payment or C.O.D..

For right now anyone interested in marketing Knacki Snacks should call Richard Beasley at (704) 641-9200 and speak directly with him. As we get some experience working with vendors, we will update this page. As it stands, every inquiry will be treated as a unique opportunity to build a relationship that is beneficial to the vendor and Last Resort Services Inc.