Enhancements for Entering Orders

Order Entry has several new features that enhance the order entry process. You can:

• Enter the item numbers that your customers use on the Order Entry form, as well as use your own item numbers and manufacturer’s item numbers (such as bar codes). Customer item numbers remove ambiguities on orders, and large customers will often use their own item numbers when ordering goods. Customer item number are defined in Inventory Control.

• Automatically use the lowest price available to a customer, regardless of the contract price.

You can choose whether to use the contract price or the lowest price by changing the option in Inventory Control’s Contract Pricing form.

• Make sure that you don’t sell items in inventory that aren’t for sale — such as goods used for building projects or in bills of material.

You can uncheck the Sellable checkbox in the Items form in Inventory Control if you do not want to sell the item through Order Entry.

• Use new inventory pricing features, including pricing by weight, pricing by multiple units of measure, and pricing based on current cost plus a specified percentage or amount.

Pricing options are selected for each item in the Item Pricing form in Inventory Control.

• Default the inventory location based on the customer’s ship-to location, so goods are shipped from the nearest warehouse. (Note that if you price by cost, prices can also vary by location.)

You add the default locations for both the customer record and the ship-to location in Accounts Receivable.

• Let you view the components of multilevel bills of material (as well as single level BOMs and kit components). Order Entry lets you click the components button to pop up the list of components.