This page intended to be a reference for those who attended the VICS 2006 conference, and for anyone interested in the workings of the following referenced material.
Click on any of the following subjects for more information:
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| Pre-Authorized Credit Cards |
If you have multiple credit card terms (i.e. credit cards terms that charge a fee and other credit card terms that do not charge a fee) you can designate them on the Pre-Authorized credit card screen. |
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| Authorizations for faxing, emailing and mailing |
Three new fields have been added to the marketing screen (and the mass update screen) to enter Y/N values authorizing your company to fax, email or mail to your customers. |
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| Mass Update |
Values entered on the customer web information screen have been added to the mass update including printing flags, ship via and customer type. |
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| Web Information Screen |
New fields were added to the web information screen allowing you to set up defaults for web customer for their terms, ship via, free freight profile and customer type. If the fields are left blank, the values will be set from the customer defaults (ALT W) screen. You can also now designate which printer (i.e. fax, email, printer) different documents will be printed to. |
The following printer choices are available (normal printer {printer defined in location maintenance}, mail printer {set up in the inventory control record}, email, fax, etc.) Your statement and invoice programs need to be modified to print to these other "printers." |
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| Email WEB set up information on new clients |
When a customer requests to be setup as a web customer you can now email them a report of their data. |
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| Mass Reporting |
For jobs that process in the background (e.g. hob items) you can set up an email address for messages to be sent when a process fails. When printing reports using the ascii option, you can designate an alternate directory for the ascii ouput to be directed instead of the default /tmp directory. |
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|
Standard Sized Boxes (used for dimensional/oversize) |
You can set up standard sized boxes so that when invoicing an order with oversized or dimensional boxes, you need not enter the L x W x H measurements each time. |
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| Quick Pricing |
On the quick pricing header you can now load only parts with specific active flags and sku's for one particular mill and style. When posting quick pricing, the on sale flag sets the on sale flag on the part and the on sale expiration date on the part. |
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| Temporary Address Data |
Pressing F6 on the ship to field will add a TAD (temporary address) record. If you want to delete the temporary address with the cursor in the company name of the temporary address, press ALT N. |
You will be taken to the temporary address maintenance program where you can delete/change the temporary address. |
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| Quote Parameters/Special Pricing |
To set up special pricing for a customer, you can set up a quote for that sku. When you enter an order for that part, the "quoted" price will be charged instead of the regular price. |
Also when adding temporary address records, you can set the default value of the residential flag when a TAD record is added. |
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| Quick Sales |
When checking sales for the day, you now have the option of choosing all orders (invoiced and non-invoiced orders for the date entered) or just invoiced orders. |
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| Formatted Report |
A month-to-date and year-to-date purchase columns were added to the formatted report. |
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| USPS Manifest/Priority/Express Mail |
Added the USPS priority mail and express mail manifests. |
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| Purge TAD (Temporary Addresses) |
New program to delete temporary addresses as of a specific date. |
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| Free Freight Profiles |
A minimum cutoff field for splits was added to the free freight profiles. The split order must meet the free freight cutoff and the minimum cutoff to get free freight. |
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| Daily Order File |
A new daily order file program was added to show orders entered on a specific date. This data is deleted each night with a cron job. The data in the file can be exported as an ASCII output file for data manipulation. |
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| Order Entry Added Date |
Added the date and time the order was first picked. |
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| On Sale Memo |
Parts that are "on sale" will be displayed on the order entry screen so that users will know that this part is on sale. |
Also the quick pricing screen will display an asterisk next to the part color for parts that are "on sale". |
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| Bulk Bin Locations |
Add 2 more bin locations to each part so you can now set up bulk bin locations. |
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| Correct Data Marks |
If you ever get an error message in Order Entry that says that the file is locked and you cannot invoice, you can run these utilities to find the part then correct it. |
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| Catalog Information |
Added catalog information to the inventory part master file. This information can be exported to an ascii or xml file. The catalog name, year, country of origin, and pages are all set up from the WEB set up menu. |
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| Printer Overrides |
If you have customers that require their invoice or picking ticket to be printed on a special form, you can set up a printer override |
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| Electronic Purchase Order |
Added the ability to create an electronic purchase order that can be ftp'd to the mills. |
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| Promotional Pricing Announcement |
Added the new EASI promotional price announcement. This program will load the count/recount items as the mills are creating sales. |
All EASI documents are the current up-to-date versions. |
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| Post Office Return Address |
Added the ability to enter the post office where merchandise return labels goods will be sent. You must have a USPS permit number entered in the location maintenance file to use this option |
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| UPS Time in Transit |
When the UPS system in unavailable, you can turn off the lookup of delivery days in /etc/environment. You now have the option to CTRL C in order entry when the system appears to be stuck looking up the time in transit. Performing the CTRL C will turn off the time in transit. A cron job will then turn back on the time in transit. |
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| Web Messages |
You have the ability by setting up a control record to not put WEB orders on hold after a customer has added a message to their order. Simply set field #8 to N. XML File Loading Loading Batch Orders Loading Payments Electronic Payments |
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