Version 9.24 February 2005
Document Attachments
FactoryMaster has been updated to allow external files to be attached to elements of the FactoryMaster system. The document attachment system has been added to:
Customer Maintenance, Supplier Maintenance, Stocked Parts, Resource Maintenance & Employee Maintenance.
Generic Audit
The audit system has been extended to audit the creation of purchase invoices.
QuickBar Changes
The behaviour of Alpha-Numeric fields in the QuickBar (the gold selection bar at the top of many maintenance screens) has been changed slightly in this version to allow more flexible searches. These fields are now pre-populated with an asterisk (*) which will match ALL records. Entering (for example) 'ABC*' will match all records where the appropriate field STARTS with 'ABC', '*ABC' will match records where the appropriate field ENDs in 'ABC', while '*ABC*' will match records where the string 'ABC' is found ANYWHERE in the appropriate field.
Customers Own Part Number Report
A new option has been added to the Customer Own Part Number Report. The report now has a 'Show' option which allows users to either show ALL customer own part numbers, or to only show those parts
with part numbers or descriptions which differ from your own.
Quote Discounts
It is now possible to enter a quote-level discount which will be applied to the final effective price of all items on the quote. The default discount for new quotes can be defined against each customer in the 'Customer Maintenance' screen. Only the discounted price will print on the quote letter by default. Users wishing to additionally show the pre-discount price can add the tag 'MG_PRE_DISC_PRICE' to the appropriate RTF quote letter template.
Sales Order Reports
The 'By Customer By Order' report now has a detail option.
Despatch Labels
Despatch labels have been updated to allow the customer's order reference to show in place of the internal sales order number (where applicable).
Using the new control flag 'DESPATCH_LBL_PO_TITLE', users can also specify that the 'Purchase Order Number' legend should be replaced by 'Sales Order Number'.
Purchase Orders
When creating purchase orders in the 'Purchase Order Maintenance' screen the user is now given the option to either a) create a blank purchase order for a known supplier (as previously) or b) specify details of the item to be ordered and then select from a list of predefined suppliers of the item. In conjunction with this, the 'Price Maintenance' screen has be redesigned to highlight (and optionally sort by) the cheapest supplier of an item. The screens in which the user defines the items to be ordered have been amended to facilitate these changes.
Stocked Parts
A new 'Stock By Supplier' tab has been added to the 'Stock Details' screen. This view summarises the stock of the selected part by the supplier from which it was received. This view can be set as your default stock view via the 'Preferences' section of the 'Stocked Parts' screen. This view also contains a button which allows the user to search for stock by its 'Supplier Part Number'.
Automatic Part Numbers
It is now possible to get FactoryMaster to automatically create part numbers by setting the control flag AUTO_GENERATE_PART. A prefix can be set using the control flag AUTO_GEN_PART_PREFIX and an incrementing number is then used. If the option is in use then a new part number will be generated if the user tabs off the part number field without entering a number.
Stock Allocations
The 'Show Stock Allocations' screen has been corrected to include items where the quantity allocated is less than 1.
Moving Raw Materials
When moving Raw Materials the system sometimes would not allow the entire quantity to be moved. This could happen where the stock was book IN using Metres but was being moved using Feet & Inches. This has now been fixed.
Stocktake Reports
Two new stocktake reports have been added. The Raw Material Items & Raw Material Value reports have been added and are available from the Stocktake reports menu.
Drawing Register
An error in previous SQL versions of FactoryMaster which stopped a drawing from being deleted in some circumstances has now been corrected.
Resource Rates
A new control flag RESOURCE_RATE_FROM_ROUTE allows the resource rate on a particular route to be modified to something different that the one on the resource. If this is done, Job Costing will use THIS rate rather than the one on the resource. A second control flag QUOTE_RES_RATE_ON_NEW_ROUTE will cause the system to populate the resource rate on the route with the one from the quote if the route was created from a quote. This second control flag does not have any effect if RESOURCE_RATE_FROM_ROUTE is false.
Preferred Route
When getting a route for 'All works orders without a route' it is now possible to tell the system to assume the preferred route should be used when multiple routes exist for the part. This is done using the control flag MULTIPLE_WO_ASSUME_PREF. When getting a route for just one works order or for one family of works orders the system will always ask the user which route to use - even if this control flag is set.
Create Works Order
A new control flag (CREATE_WO_SCREEN_TYPE) has been added to allow users to specify which options are available when creating a new internal works order.