Many companies prefer to sell their products in Package Quantities. These quantities tend to vary from package to package and vendor to vendor. It can be difficult to keep track of how many packages or “boxes” you have on hand of a particular product. The Business Edge can help you track and in turn encourage your customers to purchase in package quantities. This is where lot tracking by package quantity in The Business Edge can be utilized.
If you Lot Track your inventory then The Business Edge can help! You can set the flags in The Business Edge to prompt Users for a lot package quantity every time you receive Purchase Orders and Processing Purchase Orders as well as when you are Manually Adjusting your Inventory. This feature will assist you in tracking your package quantity on a lot by lot basis. If you have multiple package quantities for one internal lot number, you can split the lot into multiple tags during the receipt process.
This flag is located in: Utilities, System Administrator System, System Setup, Miscellaneous Setup, Enter & Edit System Tracking Flags. Once your flag is setup you can edit your existing lots as well. In order to edit your existing lots you’ll go into: Inventory System, Inventory File Maintenance, Location System, Enter & Edit Product Mfg Info. The Package quantity is displayed by lot in the lot tracking detail screen. In the Text interface this is available by pressing or clicking Mfg.
When in a Product Inquiry the Lot Package Quantity can be viewed in the Lot Tracking Detail Screen. It is an available column in the graphical interface and can be viewed under Mfg in the text interface.