Buyers Control Center View
A new Buyers Control Center View was added to the PO Static Control F/M (POF980) program. The new view allows the user to enter Rank information.
Rank refers to the activity level of an item in a particular warehouse. The rank values are from A thru E, with the A items being the faster moving items and E the slowest moving items. The Rank can be based on the hits for an item compared to the total hits in a warehouse. You can enter the rank values for each of the listed parameters: Special Order, Back Order, Critical, NPNA (New Product—Not Applicable), Replenishment, and Surplus Wh/Tr (Warehouse / Transfer).
Vendor Returns View
A new Vender Returns View was also added PO Static Control F/M to contain settings for sending alerts for vendor returns management. You can indicate whether to send an alert when a vendor credit is overdue and specify the number of days before a vendor credit is overdue as well as the number of days before a return is overdue.
Buyer Code F/M (POF920)
The Buyer Code F/M (POF920) program was updated to include the email address to use when processing system-generated alerts and a Subscribe option to specify how this buyer subscribes to alerts: N-does not receive alerts, X-Exception Control Center, E-Email, B-Email and Exception Control Center.
Advanced replenishment information is available from the Buyers Control Center as well as from the View menu from PO Entry, PO Receipt Entry, and Non PO Receipt Entry using seven new screens.
You can access display information from PO Entry, PO Receipt Entry, and Non PO Receipt Entry via the View menu option for the following new views for R-restocking controls, U-usage.
Restocking View (POC417)
The Restocking View displays the restocking controls for the selected item in the specified warehouse.
Restocking information includes: warehouse, movement class, seasonality (N-non seasonal, H-high seasonal, or L-low seasonal), usage rate, restocking type-order point, replenishment setting, line point or minimum stock, maximum stock, order quantity method, order quantity, a flag indicating whether your system allows non-stock purchase of this item without a sales order, restocking warehouse, average lead time, frozen date, periods frozen and controls frozen (restocking amounts, order quantity, lead time and/or safety allowance).
Usage View (POC416)
The Usage view displays usage information including qualified and actual usage, stocking unit of measure, number of stock-out days, percentage dip below the safety stock for the current period and the last 12 periods, and stock-out date.
The Usage view only displays Qualified usage when it differs from Actual usage or when a flag exists. This allows for better readability so it is easy to pick out the anomalies. If an inquiry line doesn't show the qualified usage, it is the same as the actual usage.
You can access the following new informational views from the Buyers Control Center as well.
Transfer History View (POC415)
The Transfer History View displays the past transfer for the selected item in the specified To and From warehouses.
This screen is display-only; the user cannot change information. Select the Show All Receipts filter check box to display all data or if un-checked, to show only those past PO records where the ”Ignore” column value is “N”.
In the browser, the transfer number and shipment number, requested and received date, lead time and qualified lead time, indicator for abnormal usage or to ignore the lead time value, the transfer quantity and buying UM are displayed.
Use the View Doc button to provide document header information, line items and provide access to transfer receipts.
Purchase Order History (POC414)
The Purchase Order History View displays the past POs for the selected item in the specified warehouse for the specified vendor.
This screen is display-only; the user cannot change information. Select the Show All Receipts filter check box to display all data or if un-checked, to show only those past PO records where the “Ignore” column value is “N”. The average lead time value also displays for the line.
In the browser, the PO number and receipt number, order and received date, lead time and qualified lead time, indicator for abnormal usages or to ignore the lead time value, the purchase quantity and buying UM.
Use the View Doc button to see document header information, line items and provides access to receipts.
Package View (POC413)
The Package view displays detailed information for the available units of measure for an item. Each UM indicates whether it is the default UM for stocking, selling, pricing, costing and/or buying as well as the quantity mask, conversion factor, weight and buying and transfer ROQ. The information for this screen is set up in Warehouse/Item F/M and Item U/M F/M.
Open Docs View (POC412)
The Open Docs view displays the open documents that contain the item leaving from the specified warehouse. The browser information details the document type, document number and line, the item quantity on the document, ordering unit of measure, date requested, item description, document source, item cost and costing UM is displayed.
Use the View Doc button to display document header information, line items and provide access to line details.
On Order View (POC411)
The On Order view displays the documents that contain the item being ordered for receipt in the specified warehouse. The browser information details the document type, document number and line, the item quantity on the document, ordering unit of measure, date expected, item description, document source, item cost and costing UM.
Use the View Doc button provides document header information, line items and provides access to line details.