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Inventory Management is a most important task requiring accurate information fast.  Find out about Customer pricing tiers Special sale pricing , insuring accuracy for Serial/lot controls , Physical counts , and Graphically connecting to your items.

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I have two types of customers that require two different pricing tiers for the same items. How do I set this up?

You can actually have up to five pricing tiers for any item.

  • Within the Item ID, Location Tab, enter your different prices in the Price 1,  Price 2,  etc., fields.
  • Within the Name/Address, Customer Tab, match the Customer type 1 through 5 to the price level in your items 1 through 5.

The price level for each customer is determined by the value in the Customer type field.  This pricing tier and other special pricing priorities and discounts defined determine the default price on any Sales Order entered.

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I want to run a special "Off-Season Sale" with 15% off regular pricing for only two weeks. Will DTE be able to help me do this?

Yes.  There are seven different combination structures of the DTE Inventory Special Pricing,  Maintenance menu.

You can choose any of the following combinations for Special Pricing by ...

  • Customer & item
  • Customer& item category
  • Customer
  • Item & location
  • Item Category & location
  • Customer class & item
  • Territory & item

You can create special pricing based on quantity or price, and for an absolute dollar or a percentage discount.  In addition, you can add a date range for the period of time that the special pricing applies.

For complete special pricing information, please link to the  Inventory User's Reference manual , "Maintaining the special pricing" section. 

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How can I insure that the serial/lot numbers assigned to my items always balance to the quantity of items in the warehouse?

There is an Inventory Control, SLVERIFY, that enables flexibility on this subject.

Select "Company" from the Inventory Maintenance menu column and use the "Locate record" shortcut to find the SLVERIFY Control.Your choices are to allow only serial/lot quantities to
  • equal location quantities
  • be less than or equal to
  • or have no verification

on the quantities within the item's location.

Note:  Requiring Serial/Lot quantities to equal will not allow an operator to Exit the item master until the quantities on hand equal the number of serial numbers.  Manually adjusting inventory may be more efficient if this same Control is temporarily changed.

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How can I include serial/lot number validation when I process my next physical count?

Serial/Lot number counts are only available when processing your count using scanner inputWhen scanning the inventory count,t he item is scanned, the quantities are scanned, then the serial/lot numbers are scanned.

The scanner file created is then uploaded into DTE for update to the quantities on hand and serial number master files.   If you choose to enter your count manually, serial/lot numbers must be adjusted via the item ID, Serial/Lot Tab entry.


I've created a physical count worksheet and assigned Tag numbers by mistake. How can I start over?

Your choice depends on the quantity of items affected.  The Tag number is assigned to each Item / Bin combination for the cycle count code or location the worksheet was created for.

  • You can manually zero the Tag number and change the Count posted  field back to N:None  for each Bin. 

          – or –
  • Choose the new Physical menu option, "Clear count tags" designed to recover the Bin records automatically.

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Can I associate a picture of my item with the Item master in DTE?

This option is only available in the DTE Windows distribution.  Because some systems are not graphically oriented, you can assign a .jpg, .bmp, or .gif image only if you're processing in a Windows®  environment.

Within the Item ID master, Item Tab, enter the full path of the image as found on your system.  For example, if the file is located in the same folder as your executable, enter the path as EXE:itemname.jpg 

There are two shortcuts where you can view the image – within the item master and the Inquiry.


Refer to the Inventory User's Reference manual for more information.  Additional assistance is also available from our Technical Support department.

 

 

   

 

 

 

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