Version 9.38 April 2006

• Menus & Hotkeys
  Options from the 'Time & Attendance Menu' and from the 'Customer Reports Menu' can now be added to your 'favourites' menu.

• Sales Order Reports
  A new 'Sales Order Profit Prediction' report has been added to this menu.

• Sales Order Alternative Part Description
  The 'Alternative Part Description' which can be entered against a sales order item can now be shown on both Route Cards and the 'Works Order Enquiry' screen.
  If the control flag 'RC_USE_ALT_DESC' is set to 'Yes' then the route cards will show the alternative description from the FIRST related sales order.  If the works order is NOT related to a sales order, or no alternative description has been entered, then the route cards will show the 'normal' part description as setup in the 'Stocked Parts' screen.
  Works Order Enquiry can show the alternative part description of the FIRST related sales order on either of the last two 'optional' columns.  Please note that if the works order is NOT related to a sales order, or if no alternative description has been entered then this field will be BLANK.

• Delivery Reports
  The 'Delivery Report' now includes sub-totals at the bottom of each relevant section.

• Supplier Price Maintenance
  This screen has been amended to allow 'minimum' and 'fixed' charges to be stored against a supplier's prices, allowing price structures of the type '£5.75 per item, with a minimum of £100, plus a fixed charge of £10' or simply '£100 for quantities up to 50, £200 for quantities up to 100'.
  
  A new option to use the smallest price break when the quantity being ordered is smaller than this break has also been added. Previously, an order for '3' of an item would have returned a zero price if that item's prices were only defined for batches of 10, 50 and 100. With this option checked, the unit price defined for a quantity of '10' would be used. The control flag 'PRICES_DEFAULT_USE_SMALLEST' can be set to default this option to 'Yes' for new items.
  
  The method of defining the price to be used in standard cost calculations has been changed - the user now enters a quantity rather than selecting a price break. This enables the user to state that (for example) a quantity of '100' should be used, even if the only price break is for '10'.
  
  A number of screens and reports have be amended to accommodate these changes.
  
  The 'Last Ordered Date' on this screen has also been updated to allow users to zoom and view the details of the most recent purchase order.
  Users can now also 'Hotkey' from Price Maintenance to view purchase orders that have the same characteristics as the current record.

• Auto-Generate Purchase Orders
  The 'Order By Works Order', 'Order By Sales Order' and 'Order By Assembly' screens now all use a common, simplified order interface - making it easier to identify the items still outstanding, and to select the items to be ordered. A QuickBar has also been added to allow users to easily locate the required items and / or suppliers.

• Purchase Order Price Variance Report
  The 'Purchase Order Price Variance' report has been updated to allow users to include & range on 'subcontract' and 'non-stocked part' items.

• Purchase Order Release Notes
  The generic system audit has been added to this option.

• Standard Cost vs P/O Cost Report
  The export of this report has been updated to allow the user to choose which columns to include.

• Raw Materials
  The full twelve characters of the 'Advice Note Number' are now stored on the raw material batch record. This was previously being truncated to ten characters.
  If the cost of an existing batch of Raw Material is altered it will now update the job costing of any works orders which the material has been issued to.

• Assembly Formulae
  'Assembly Formulae' has been updated to include 'Supported Functions' - e.g. Logical functions ['AND', 'OR'] and Mathematical Functions ['TAN', 'COS', 'ROUND'].
  These functions can be viewed and selected from 'Assembly Template Maintenance' by zooming from a parameter expression line.

• Manufacturing Instructions
  Manufacturing instruction operations have been updated to automatically include the 'default' manufacturing details on new operations.

• Works Order Detail
  The 'Works Order Detail' screen now includes an 'switchable' quantity column to show either the quantity completed on an operation, or the quantity scrapped.

• MRP Report
  The report has been redesigned for clarity, and to allow 'expired stock' to be shown on its own line.
  This report now uses the new standard report selection screen. A new option has been added to allow the user to select the level of detail to be printed - the 'detailed' option shows one line per transaction type (as previously), 'summary' shows one line for transactions 'IN' and one line for transactions 'OUT', whilst the 'simple' option just shows the 'carried forward' figures.
  The export has been redesigned to account for the new options and to show each transaction type in its own column. The user is now also able to select which columns should be included in the export file.

• Forecast Stock / MRP Trace
  Forecast Stock & MRP Trace screens now show the current item's minimum stock quantity and include colour-coding to indicate the proximity to the minimum stock.

• Supplier Performance
  There is now an option to calculate a supplier's 'Scan & Adherence' score.

• Internal Rejects (CO)
  It is now possible to issue both stocked parts and raw material for the purposes of rework from anywhere in the system from which you can issue stock to a works order.
  
  A 'data capture' user can now scan a reject note which has rework on it (created by the new option) instead of a works order. If this is done the time will be booked to both the works order that the reject is for, and to the cost of re-work on the reject.
  
  It is also now possible to create new rejects from the data capture terminal. If the control flag SCRAP_REWORK_DATACAPTURE is set then an extra screen will be shown to the operator, allowing a scrap and/or rework quantity to be entered. The reject record will be automatically created ready for a supervisor to fill in the details through the standard internal rejects option. The control flag DC_SCRAP_COVER will determine if any action should be taken to cover a scrapped quantity.
  
  A new button has been added to the 'Internal Reject Detail' screen to show the breakdown of the cost of rework.
  
  'Part Number', 'Resource' & 'Reason Code' ranges have been added to the 'Cost Of Internal Rejects' report.

• Time Bookings By Employee Report
  'Grand Totals' have been added to this report.