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Leonard Sadlak wrote: I am asked to run a lot of inventoy reports with a variety of critrea for a number of reasons. And a problem I have is trying to ecxlude main components from lots. I find it hard to believe that Quantum stores the main component for a lot in the stock table and does not have a flag in the stock record identifing it as a main component. Has anyone come up witha simple way to address this problem???
Hi Leonard –
I asked our accountant that runs the LOT reports and we haven’t found any way to identify these either. I looked at a main component using the F10 to see if there was a flag anywhere and found nothing. Maybe something with the allocation could help but not sure.
Good luck!
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It would be nice to keep a running tally – (on this site somewhere maybe?) of what requests have been sent over to CC with tracker numbers and then what has been implemented so it’s easier for the members to see what affect we have as a group in getting things done. Maybe could just be a ‘sticky’ post for each year in this enhancement forum where we can keep tabs on it? Just a suggestion.
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Paul Stewart wrote:
Tony,
This already exists. In fact, this is going to be the topic of one of my lectures.
Really? Is this still in development or just not available yet? That sounds great! I’ll have to make sure I sit in on that lecture! I’m glad to hear that you’ll be presenting as I think you have some of the best presentations!
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Paul Stewart wrote:
Tony,
The problem with this is that no one in the parts listing sector will play with Component Control because they are a direct competitor. When I worked at CC, we were having lengthy discussion with Bruce Langsen (former President of ILS and now retired) to integrate ILS and Quantum. ILS Wanted to use QC as an online solution.
The talks fell apart and The Stock Market was born. ILS then bought out the software company ARMS and began to offer it as an ERP solution.
I have asked many of my contacts at ILS if this would ever happen and they so no. Component Control would like to see it, but ILS doesnt want to play.
It’s a sad thing really. Both my reps (I’m in process of moving to a new rep)say that ILS is willing to talk but when you’re really not the decision maker I guess it doesn’t matter what you heard. I wonder what Pentagon was able to accomplish with them?
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Tom Ordonez wrote: Hi all,
I am interested to know if anybody else is familiar with these topics and how they can benefit our group:
– Crowdsourcing
– Groupon
What I have in mind is:
– I want a customization in Quantum that does X,Y,Z.
– Propose this feature to the group and get people who would also want it.
– Propose the feature to CC to get them to build the feature at a good discount (say 70%?)
– CC gets more frequent sales and we all get more out of the software. Win-Win.
Tom – I like your idea and would be interested in participating if something would benefit us also. My thing is that CC always states that if enough users need it they’ll build it in – like with suggestions from the Que group meetings each year. (Which by the way I don’t recall making a list like that this year – did I miss that end meeting?)
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Lynne Keller wrote: Our company is in the implementation process at this time. Our legacy system allowed us to enter one line item with a quantity of 30 if we were pulling a serialized part from our stock to sell to someone on a Sales Order. It is our understanding from the training we have received thus far, that we would have to enter 30 separate line items and allocate stock for each specific serial number rather than just being able to enter one line item with a qty of 30 and handling the assignments of the serial numbers through the receiving process. This seems to be problematic because it requires many more keystrokes and more time to accomplish and it also opens the door for miscounting as you enter 30 individual lines rather than just one line. Have any other users encountered this problem and thought it should be addressed? Is there a work around this?
Hi Lynne,
What you’re referring to seems to pertain to a couple different issues.
First – with the Sales Order – you can add one part qty 30 and then when you allocate stock for the SO item you can select 30 different stock lines with individual serial numbers. The only issue there is if you use the LOT module. Any parts that are part of the LOT will not be allowed to be allocated to that sales order line item – you will need to add another item on the SO to allocate those parts. It’s a way that Quantum costs the items. But if you don’t use the LOT you won’t have this issue.
Second, you had mentioned the receiving process – but I’m not sure how you’re working this with SO. I mean when you receive 30 serialized part through a PO and use that receiving process you’ll then enter all the different serial numbers at that point – I’m not positive the process for using the receiving module.
But back to the main part of your question – you shouldn’t have the need to enter in multiple sales order line items to allocate multiple serial numbers. Hope this helps!
Tony
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Paul Stewart wrote:
Anthony,
We have several companies in our structure. I create a complete set of documents for each company/branch. It is a bit of work, but makes it much easier to manage. Especially when dealing with our over seas companies as they may have certain requirements that we do not need.
You have two companies but one DB. Does that mean you are using a multi company license? As in accounting companies?
Can you share some code that you are having trouble with? We might be able help if we have a better understanding the specific issue.
Paul – sorry I don’t get all the updates from the site in my e-mail and just saw your respons to my earlier post. We are using the multi company license for accounting – which makes using Quantum that much more difficult overall. The code is just difficult to remove/update to make the forms work the way I want. We are currently moving several people in the office as the hierarchy here has changed with the owners beginning to retire so I’ve been caught up with moves/new PC’s etc in the office and haven’t been able to look at this since my last post. I’ll try to move on this next week and update you. Thanks!
Tony
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I would agree with Paul. If they are static updates – the cost for Quantum to modify the existing reports probably won’t be too bad – and much less than the Forms Designer module. We have the module and it is NOT easy to work with. But adding a line of text to indicate a form name/number isn’t that hard to do (again assuming it is standard on each document being edited. IF it will dynamically change per order/etc that will programming as Paul said).
Good luck!
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Tom – I agree with Paul. We scan all incoming docs etc using Fujitsu 5120c’s and it takes probably 1-2 minutes on average to scan 20 pages. Our normal load is probably 5-10 pages per order and the time is not nearly as long as you’re suggesting. The resolution is definitely the big thing to look at. Anything over 200- 250 and you’re going to be sitting there. at 400 dpi the speed kicks down a lot. Look at that first. If you have a slow PC this will also slow things down as it’s processed client side prior to being saved in Quantum. Hope you get this resolved!
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Paul – the funny thing is just two days ago Adam followed up a bug tracker (incorrect qty printing on a reprint of a Material Cert from shipping module) and said it was fixed in 9.1.11 and recommended me to upgrade. But in your communication they said you’d be the first. Seems like nobody has their story straight over there! I’ll be scheduling an upgrade soon (to be ready for the next Que convention) and wonder what I’ll truly get now.
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The cost from Quantum to design a form isn’t too bad really. If you need it and it saves time – it’s money well spent. Adding a form is pretty difficult. The forms designer program is not user friendly at all. If you’re editing a form a bit – you can do it. If you need to add a form to an existing one (2 pages now ) forget it. Get a quote from them, I guarantee you won’t regret it!
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Eric Chez wrote:A nice feature to have would be the ability to print out an Exchange Agreement form to give customers.
We use a custom web based form at the moment, and would be nice to have it generated automatically in Quantum.
Hi Eric,
I know that his is old – so I apologize if you’ve already found a solution and this is late. This is similar to what we do with our repair orders, etc it sounds. With our ROs we have our RO terms as a second page when printed. If you were only sending these out with Exchange orders you could setup a modified SO document that had your agreement with it and then select that form when you print. That way all go together. The cost for the custom form is pretty cheap in the grand scheme. If you want to just have the form to send out in general without directing someone to the web or whatnot you could always create a company or part called forms and keep all your forms scanned in there and then just e-mail from withing Quantum.
Not sure if any of that was what you were looking for!
Tony
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Paul Stewart wrote:
Here is an example of how to append to the Header Notes upon button click in a module.
Form.Dataset.FieldByName[‘NOTES’].AsString:=Form.Dataset.FieldByName[‘NOTES’].AsString+’Test’+#10;
The #10 is the ANSII code for a new line.
Hey Paul,
I was looking at this since it looked pretty neat. Now am I reading this correctly that this will pretty much allow you to click on the notes box at the top of the module window and just type in a note (or does it bring up the notes dialog box?)? I placed this code after the begin line in screen scriptor in the section for the procedure BtnOKClick – is that not the right spot? Nothing seems to happen when I enter in this code.