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3.6 Entering Items Business Examples
Note: For step by step instructions on adding items, please refer to the topic Creating New Items .
Business Type: Distributing - Items with Preferred Suppliers
Sebastian Distributing has many items in their existing database so they will be importing their item
information. They also want to streamline the purchase order process for their employees. Many items
are typically ordered from the same supplier so they manually enter the preferred supplier information on
the Manage Suppliers tab on the Edit Item screen for each item after the items are imported. They also
set up the preferred shipping unit of measure for each supplier on this tab. By doing this, the preferred
supplier information and associated preferred unit of measure will appear on new purchase orders as
soon as the item is added to the order.
Another time-saving step they take is to make sure all Item Codes are scannable. They enter the longer,
descriptive name in the Item Description field.
Business Type: Fleet - Items with Primary Locations
Items are typically assigned to the same locations in Rusty's Cable Company. The manager of Rusty's
Cable Company has set up their sites as vehicles and each vehicle contains basically the same locations.
There are bins for certain types of cables, a bin for remotes, a rack for cable boxes, etc. The
configuration for each vehicle is the same. For each item, they want to designate a primary location
within each site (vehicle). By doing this, when a user receives or adds an item using the mobile device or
on the PC the primary location will automatically appear on the screen, saving the employee from having
to search for it. (The location can be changed to something other than the primary location, if needed).
This is true for picking or removing inventory as well - the item will be removed from the primary location
by default unless the user changes the location.
Designating primary locations works for Rusty's Cable Company in conjunction with the Site
Configurations they have selected. The manager has set a primary location for each item in each site
and each mobile device's From/To sites are set to a specific vehicle.
To set up primary locations the manager can simply import items, making sure the import file contains a
column designating the item as having a preferred location (a Y should be in the Supplier column for that
item). Please refer to the Item Import Templates found in your installation folder or on your installation
CD for an example of this.
Business Type: Reseller - Items Imported
Brady's Bargains imports their item list from their existing Excel spreadsheet. They will also be tracking
some items so they make sure to import this information correctly. Refer tot he Item Import Templates
found in your installation folder or on your installation CD and to the topics,
Importing Into the Database
and Import Specifics/Database Properties .
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