Rather frequently these days (since the coming of WHS) I find myself in a situation where I require all items in a company to have at least some provisional barcode. Also bear in mind that as long as you do not use your barcodes outside your own warehouse(s), there is no requirement to have an…
Read MoreShipping potential
The following applies to companies with a make to stock strategy that generally do not work with requested delivery dates (e.g. has customers who prefer their orders delivered yesterday). I bet my left spectacles (the ones I keep in my left-hand drawer) that every manager’s favorite report is “Shipped, not invoiced”. Who doesn’t want to…
Read MoreDigging up the dirt. Inside the InventTrans (Part 3)
Continued from part 2 In parts 1 and 2 of this series on the InventTrans, I explained how a purchase order line mutates in the InventTrans table during the various stages of its life. The following table summarizes the changes in the inventTrans at various stages of the purchase order line. field create orderline post…
Read MoreDigging up the dirt. Inside the InventTrans (Part 2)
In this part of the series on the inventTrans, we will take a look at one of the processes that uses this table. The previous part can be found here. Purchase order The steps of the purchase order process: Create order Confirm order Post arrival journal Post receipt Post invoice To keep things simple, imagine we…
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