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Issue #794

A helpful catalog prefix list was added to the online Product Literature and MSDS pages.

For the Polywater employee in charge of assigning product catalog numbers, life was good for many years. If there were 128 fluid ounces in a gallon of Polywater F, he called it "F-128". When we poured 640 fluid ounces of HydraSol into a 5-gallon pail, he named it "HS-640". With an alphabet chock full of 26 letters, the possibilities seemed limitless for an expanding product line. Catalog prefixes were easy to assign and intuitive for reps and customers to identify. AirRepair became "AR". CableFree was obviously "CF". As the years passed, the latest release of our Pull-Planner software was dubbed "PP-3000," replacing the "PP-2000." And so on. The employee was able to take long lunches and go home early without the least bit of stress. Then life changed.

Along came a new product called PowerPatch ... but the PP prefix was already in use! The employee panicked. Life was no longer so simple. After much hand-wringing and therapy he was forced to break with tradition and code PowerPatch with the less-intuitive EP prefix to differentiate it from the Pull-Planner. As more products followed, the floodgates opened. SqueekyKleen became TC. Grime-Away was named HTC. IceFree was coded WS. Confused customers--unable to find MSD sheets online--began to complain. The employee repeatedly failed in his attempts to expand the alphabet and continues to tweak his meds, but corporate management long ago acted to reduce customer confusion. A Catalog Prefix List was added to the online Product Literature and MSDS pages. Combined with the existing Catalog Numbers page linking codes back to their respective product flyers, this makes matching catalog numbers with product trade names much easier.

The Friday Fax Editor's Joke of the Week

The Joke

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