What's New in Universal Product Codes Processing (UPC)

 Redeveloped the UPC Code Maintenance:

 - Improved performance

 - Made the interface more user friendly

- Provided options for automatically assigning UPC codes or clearing the UPC Codes for the selected Items

 - Applied the UPC Code Maintenance improvement to the Inventory Maintenance, Inquiry and other programs where UPC is available.

- Modified the UPC program to find the Item if UPC code is entered without the UCC part

- Provided UPC Code scanning for Bill number on the Header tab of Production Entry and for component Items on the Lines tab.

What's New in RF Warehouse Automation

Running  RF Warehouse Automation enhancement in the system with MBN and WSA installed makes the Bin Transfer Entry, Traveler Bin Transfer, Pallet Shipping Entry and Bin Inquiry menus available in Sage 100 ERP for Win CE launcher.

    Bin Transfer Entry- allows for transferring items from one Bin Location to another within the same warehouse.

Bin Inquiry - allows for displaying active bin locations and Quantity on Hand for the scanned/entered Item number in the selected Warehouse. 

          RF Pallet Shipping Entry – allows for scanning what is picked for the order onto a pallet and accurately track what is on the pallet.

In addition, the following features are avialable:

  Bin Distribution is enabled in the RF Shipping, Receipt of Goods, I/M Transaction and Physical Count Entries for Warehouses using bins.

 The Bin Location field is enabled in the Physical Count Entry to allow selecting a bin for Multibin warehouse and count the Item by bins.

With UPC enhancement installed, Item UPC Code scanning is supported in the Shipping, Receipt of Goods, Inventory Transaction, Physical Count and Pallet Shipping Entries

New Sage Software Whitepaper: Top 5 Security Concerns for Business

Ever mindful of hardware and software security threats to companies stemming from advances in technology and new mobile devices, Sage Software recently published an insightful, one-page Whitepaper, in order to raise awareness about the top five security concerns to which all business should pay attention, and to provide solutions to address and preempt potential security breaches.

According to the annual report, cited by Sage Software and issued by the premier global source of information security training and certification - the Bethesda, Maryland-based SANS Institute - due to the rapid evolution, increasing affordability, and proliferation of cutting-edge devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and netbooks, a growing number of companies have opted to utilize such gadgets to increase efficiency and productivity. A company's adoption and management of such devices, however, raises valid concerns with respect to the maintenance of a secure internal network infrastructure.

According to the Whitepaper, the top security concerns for companies stem from:

·        - The inability to control authorized and unauthorized devices.

·        - The inability to maintain authorized and unauthorized software.

·        - Insecure configurations for hardware and software on mobile devices, laptops, and servers.

·        - Code or configuration vulnerabilities.

·        - Malware breaches.

To read Sage Software's latest Whitepaper in its entirety, simply click on the following link:

Top Five Security Concerns for Business

What's New In Multibin Processing

       Traveler Bin Processing

- New option added in the Multibin Processing Options allows for enabling Traveler Bin Processing:           

Traveler Bin Maintenance

        - The Traveler Bin Processing allows for grouping items within bins that are mobile or “traveling” bins.   

- The traveler bins are stored in and transferred between the fixed bins that are the physical locations within the warehouse.  

- Traveler bins can contain multiple different items.

- Items can be transferred in an out of a traveler bin

- A traveler bin can contain multiple traveler bins.

- Physical bins can contain multiple traveler bins.

The following Traveler bin types are available:

a. Tote

b. Tare

c. Container

     

Traveler Bin Transfer Entry

- Traveler bin transfers are tracked the same as physical bin transfers. 

- A traveler bin can be transferred between physical bins.When a traveler bin is transferred, all the items in the traveler bin are transferred together between the physical bins as part of the traveler bin.

Bin Activity Report

Utility to Purge Bin Activity utility

Bin Label Printing

Advanced Bin Transfer

  - Enables easy inventory transfer out of Bin and transfer into Bin procedure.

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What's New in Warehouse Shipping Automation

- Ability of Multiple Ship Via.setup for a Customer

- Ability of verifying back ordered lines i the Shipping Data Entry

- Integration with SWK MapaDoc.

LTL Shipments processing:

- Bill Of Lading Options setup for LTL shipments

- Pallet Tracking, which operates like  Item Packaging, just allows for tracking the cartons on the pallets, which are used for LTL and TL shipments only

- IIG Master Bill of Lading Printing

- IIG Master BOL Entry

- Manifest closing for LTL shipments.

- IIG Bill of Lading Printing.

- IIG LTL Manifest Generation.

- IIG Freight Class Maintenance.

- IIG NMFC Number Maintenance.

- Pallet Shipping Entry

- Modification in Shipping Data Entry to allow automatically shipping the quantities already picked in the Pallet Shipping Entry and distributing by respective packages

What's New in Service Management

- Customized Enhancements

- New Grid Entry 

- User/Date Time stamps

- Memo Manager

- Hyperlinks

- Setup Wizard

- Security Flexibility

- Security Events

Contract Entry Enhancements

- Provided hyperlinks for Customer; Contract Items, Technician Code and Job Site Code

- Added Documents Path, which allows for specifying a path where the Contract related documents are stored and view/launch them as need

- View Transactions linked to Contract – Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Invoices, RMA

- Technician Code on the Contract, which is loaded as Preferred Technician in the Task created for current Contract in the Task Data Entry.

- Flexible PM schedule setup on Contract header and Contract Items for Tasks being generated for  Preventive Maintenance Contracts through the Auto Generate Task selection program

•     Contract Renewal Management, which includes:

- Customer Renewal Invoice generation

- Vendor Purchase Order Generation

- Contract Extensions

- Renew Bill Item. Renew Bill Item may be either Regular or Misc. Item. Is used during renewal order generation

- Renew Duration

- Renew Amount

- Renew Duration. Indicates for how many days, months, year the Contract should be renewed. Should be specified as follows: 1Y, 3Y, 9M, 365D

- Renew Amount. The billing amount of a contract for a renewal agreement

•     Entry of components for a Contract Item having PM Code assigned. Automatically loading of the components into the dispatch transaction generated when Task is generated for Contract items in the Auto Generate Task selection program

Sales Order Enhancements

- Installation Order Management

- Sales Order Tracking Dashboard to enable management of open installation orders easily

But wait! There's more...

Fast scanning and auto distribution for Rental Serial Items in the Sales Order lines.

Swapping of serials in the Sales Order lines, which allows for entry of old serial and new serial numbers and processing old serial number as returned and the new serial number as rented. 

- Shipping Rental Orders Grouped by Rental Job Number

- Insurance expiration date validation in Rental Order

- Modification of Rental Serial Reservation logic in Sales Order to allow changing Rental Starting/Ending dates without clearing serial distribution if distributed serials are available for updated date range.

- Enhanced Rental Return Entry to speed up Serial scanning process.

- Alias Item Recognition in the Rental Return Entry.

- Rental Return Quick Print.

- An option for increment quantity returned. For serial items set serial number status to RET each time an item is scanned.

- Auto Return feature in the Rental Return program, which allows setting all lines quantity returned to quantity rented and setting respectively serial number status to RET.

- Ability to select all or desired rental orders to return.

- Fast scanning and auto distribution logic in the Rental Return Entry.

- "Rental Data Correction Utility" program to allow rebuilding rental data.

-  Modification in "Transaction Register" programs to write "IMT" and "SLD" status records to the Serial Item Status table after updating of "Sales", "Issues", "Transfers", "Adjustments" transaction entries.

-  Modification in I/M Transaction Entry programs to not allow distribution of rental serials with "RNT" and "RES" statuses for "Sales", "Issues", "Transfers", "Adjustments" entries.

-  "Item List" look up on the Serial Item Status Maintenance to allow viewing all serial items.

-  Modification of Rental Serial Status processing to keep only one (current) status with History = "N" and move all other statuses to history (except active RES statuses).

-  Printing Serial Numbers on the Rental Invoice Generation program.

-  Printing Sales and Rental lines separately in the A/R Invoice Hist Report.

-  An option of setting color in the Item Status Code Maintenance to be used on the Rental Board.

-  Added Serialized Items Rental Board. 

Whats New in Rental Processing

  Setup of Minimum Number of Days and Rates by Customer for Rental Item.

      Option for Rental Kit Pricing to be applied in the Sales Order Data Entry

Rental Quantity drill-down on the Quantity tab of Item Maintenance to view Reserved Qty and On Rent Qty values  

Business Insight Explorer Viewer

      Enhancements to manage transfer, or sell of products on rent.

  Scheduled billing logic for rentals in the Sales Order.

    Copy From feature for Rental lines.

     Quick access to Rental Shipping, Rental Return, Invoice Data Entries 

and Invoice Generation from Sales Order.