Version 8.xx prior to 2004

• New Hot Key Added
  A new hot key has been added to the system. CTRL+F11 will now call the Drawing Register from anywhere in the system.

• New Duplicate Record Check
  Starting in this version and finishing in the next, a new check for Duplicate records is being added. This will show a new and improved message to the users. The message will be in a message box rather then just on the status bar so that the user does not miss the message and wonder why they can't move off the record.
  In this version a small number of places will still behave in the old way but all will use the new method by the next version.

• Control File
  The control file has been updated to allow much easier use and manipulation of control settings.  The terminology used in the control file has also been changed to be more user friendly;
  Levels 0-4 have been renamed as 'General' control settings, while levels 5-9 (previously supervisor only) has been renamed as 'restricted'.
   
  The user access rights on the control file has been revised and now broken down into two user access settings: 'Control Settings' and 'Control Settings - Restricted'.
  The 'Control Settings - Restricted' access allows users to alter general and restricted control settings, while the 'Control Settings' access allows users to access general control settings only.

• Batch Traceability
  A new method of batch traceability has been added in this version. This will not affect existing users unless they choose to use it, but new customers will default to this method.
  The new method retains full traceability while not creating excessive batches.
  The previous method of full traceability created a new batch for each goods receipt even if stock had been received from an identical place and batch previously. The new method will only create a new batch if the source and batch are different. For example if 50 are booked in from works order 123.00 and then later another 50 was booked in from the same works order they will be put onto the same batch record rather than different ones as now.
  This methods retains full traceability and should be suitable for all systems but you will need a password from support to change from your existing method.

• Purchase Prices & Sales Prices
  The user access controls 'Sales Price List' and 'Purchase Price List' have been added to control view and modification of sales & purchase prices throughout FactoryMaster

• Sales Orders
  A new control flag 'SALES_CURRENCY_TYPE' has been added, this control flag is to default the currency type of non home currency sales orders. 
  This flag accepts 'F' (capital F) for fixed rate and 'V' (capital V) for variable rate.  If the flag has not been set to either of these settings, it will default to variable.
  A new option has been added to contract review.  The option 'Apply prices' should automatically populate calloff prices with the appropriate contract review price.

• Release Notes
  A new control flag 'AUTO_POP_REL_DET' has been added, this control flag is to allow sales release notes to be automatically populated by ALL associated materials when the note is created.

• Stock Labels
  Stock labels (both stocked parts and raw materials) have been updated to use DYMO printers.  Please note that for this option to work, the printer MUST be set to use
  label 99014 (Shipping) in both the device settings AND advanced printer settings.

• Raw Material Specifications
  The raw material specification field within FactoryMaster has been updated to allow specifications of up to 30 charactors.

• Tooling Interval
  Tooling interval has been updated to allow different  calibration interval types, and now allows intervals of days, months or years.

• Route Cards
  Added styles 29 and 30.

• Over / Under Issues
  The RM Issues Over % report has been revised to allow both Raw Materials, stocked parts and updated with new features.  Therefore it has been renamed to Over / Under issues report.

• Scheduling
  In previous version if a user crashed when running scheduling the option would become locked to all other users. From this version onwards a user with FULL User Access will be given the option to clear the lock. The user should be careful when doing this as clearing the lock if the other user has NOT crashed out will causes errors in the system.

• ECN Maintenance
  ECN Maintenance has been enhanced to allow better functionality.  Now, if you set a ECN to cancelled, it will attempt to revert the issue of the drawing to its previous state.
  This rule can be modified using the 'ECN_ON_DRAWING_ISSUE_CHANGE' control flag.  Please also note that cancelled ECN's are now irreversible.

• Employee Maintenance
  An extra column has been added to employee maintenance, the 'current job' field now shows the current status of the selected employee.

• Authorisation Screen
  The Authorisation screen has been updated to show additional detail and improve ease of use.

• Update Drawing Picture Locations
  The 'Update Drawing Picture locations' program has renamed to 'Update Picture locations' and has been updated to allow the alteration of Employee picture locations.

• Smallest Batch Option
  The control flag 'SMALLEST_BATCH_OPTION' has been added to the quotes tab to allow users to specify the default 'smallest batch option' when your setting up supplier batch prices on a quote component.

• Freight VAT Code
  A new field has been added to sales order entry.  The Freight VAT Code is used to define the VAT code / rate used on freight costs.

• Sales Import
  The Rolls Royce style import now caters for the "Mailbox 6.0" version of the csv file. It will also still work with the earlier version of the file.

• Invoice Day Book
  The invoice day book has been updated with an export feature.

• Purchase Order Menu
  The main menu option 'Purchase Order Goods In' has been renamed 'Purchase Order Receipts'. This menu now contains the 'Items Awaiting Invoice' report which was previously held on the 'Purchase Invoices' menu.

• Purchase Order Departments
  A new field has been added to the purchase to define the internal department the purchase order is being raised for. This optional field can pick up a default value defined against each stock category. The department entered will be used when the purchase order details are exported to Sage and other accounting packages.

• Export 'Items Awaiting Invoice' To Sage
  A new export has been written to allow details of items 'received but not invoiced' to be exported to Sage Line 100 (Century Version).

• Location Maintenance
  A new 'Nominal Code' field has been added to this screen. This is only used when exporting stock movements to Sage Line 50 or Sage Line 100 (Century Version) (see below).

• Stocked Parts
  The screen on which the user selects which sales price lists a part should appear on has been modified to enable use of the keyboard to change items (using F4 and F3 to add or remove the part from a price list respectively).

• Default EBQ
  The control flag 'DEFAULT_EBQ' has been added to the stock tab to allow users to set a default EBQ to be set on all NEW parts.  Please note this does NOT effect existing parts.

• Export 'Stock Movement Details' To Sage
  A new export has been written to allow details of stock movements to be exported to Sage Line 50 and Sage Line 100 (Century Version).

• Resource Planning Board
  When Highlighting a works order there is now an option to only include the resources which contain the highlighted works order or to include all. Also when zooming to view the details of works orders in the day/shift the highlight will be shown in the zoom screen as well.

• Works Order Enquiry
  Two new columns have been added to the selectable sections of Works Order Enquiry:  'Scheduled days' column has been added to allow users to see how many days are allocated to a works order in the schedule.  The other new column 'Customer Order No' has been added to allow users to see the customer order no of related sales orders.  Please note that this column is only available if you have Internal order numbers turned ON.
  
  Works order now no longer force you to complete the works order if its entire quantity has been made.

• Route Cards
  Route Card 26 now shows the special instructions if any have been entered on the works order.

• Cost of Sales Report
  The cost of sales report has been updated with an export function.

• Authorised Hours Report
  The authorised hours report has been updated to allow users to print one page per employee.

• Terminal Location
  When you first enter FactoryMaster after upgrading to this version, the system may ask you to enter the location of your terminal. Enter a brief description of where your PC is located - for example 'Admin Office', 'Stockroom', 'General Office' etc. This will then appear alongside the user name on the 'Who's On The System' screen (Ctrl+W).

• Pre-Allocation Of Sales Invoice Numbers
  It is now possible to pre-allocate a sales invoice number to a sales order. As long as invoice remains unprinted, any deliveries or stage invoices raised against the order will be added to the specified invoice.

• Ad-Hoc Invoices & Credit Notes
  It is now possible to specify the currency code to use when creating an ad-hoc invoice or credit note. This was previously set to the default currency of the customer specified. It is also now possible to enter a manual invoice or credit note number.

• Supplier Maintenance
  Users no longer require DELETE access to supplier maintenance to be able to change the 'Monitor Performance' setting on the supplier.

• Drawing Numbers On Purchase Orders
  A new control flag ('P/O_INCLUDE_DRAWING_NO') has been set up to determine if the drawing number should appear on purchase orders. This not currently applicable to purchase orders raised through any of the 'auto-raise' routines.

• MRP
  The screen listing MRP reports has been updated as well as the options screen when printing an MRP report.
  A new option has been added to the MRP to take MIN STOCK into account. If this is chosen the quantity 'driven down' for components of parts that show a deficiency will be enough to make up to the Min Stock Qty on the parent part. The quantity shown on the parent parts will not be affected, but when running the Auto-Raise (P/O or W/O) from an MRP with the Min Stock option set the system will suggest that orders are raised to meet the Min. The MRP will have already calculated the components to be sufficient to raise works orders created in this way.

• Tooling Calibration
  An error in updating a tool after calibration crept into v9.05. This has been corrected in this version. If any tools have the wrong calibration date or wrong number of days till the next calibration then a user with FULL access rights can press F8 on the Tool Maintenance screen to correct ALL tools.

• Summary of Completed Jobs Report
  The Summary of completed jobs report has been updated to allow the users the specify top level works orders only.

• Main Menu
  The main menu has been redesigned to incorporate the new FactoryMaster logo, and to allow more options on each tab.

• Generic Audit
  Works Order components has been added to the generic audit.

• Supervisor Options/System Maintenance
  The supervisor options (CTRL+M on Main Menu) have been re-named System Maintenance. In addition there is no longer a password on this option, instead User Access can be applied to limit who is allowed to access this menu. By default only users with FULL access will be allowed to access it.

• Standard Clauses
  The 'standard clauses' which print on many external documents can now be defined from the 'Document Layouts' area of the System Maintenance menu

• Forecast Stock Hot Key (CTRL+F10)
  In previous versions of FactoryMaster the CTRL+F10 hot key was only available in certain places from within the system. This is now available throughout the system and will ask the user which part number or material should be shown if the information is not available from the previous program.
  N.B. The ability for this program to show the Forecast Stock for the part number/material that is currently located on in the previous program is only available where this has been specifically programmed. If you require this ability from other places please contact support.

• Standard Clauses
  Payment terms have been added to the Standard Clauses to allow users to specify standard payment terms and default payment terms for newly created customers.

• Route Card Printers
  The ability to set up a specific printer to print route cards has been added to the local machine settings screen, which can be found at 'Options -> Local Machine Settings'

• Currency Maintenance
  New User access settings has been added to the 'Currency Rates' user access control.  Currency Maintenance now responds to Create, modify and delete access.

• Customer Price Lists
  The option to print customers own part numbers has been added to both the customer order form and the customer price list.
  The ability to print in a different currency has been added to the customer order form.
  The available stock order form now only shows those parts which are selected to appear on the selected price list.

• Sales Order Maintenance
  In FactoryMaster v8 the user could enter search criteria then press Enter on the keyboard to see the results. In earlier versions of FactoryMaster v9 this ability was not available - it has now been replaced.

• Sales Order Acknowledgement
  Added style 7.
  Sales Order line comments have been added to style 1.  This option can be controlled by using the 'ORD_ACK_SO_LINE_COMMENTS' in the sales tab.

• Sales Proforma Invoice
  VAT amounts are now rounded on this document in the same way as on Sales Invoices.

• Pick Lists
  Added style 5.
  A control flag 'SHOW_SN_BOXES' has been added into the general tab.  This option allows Pick lists, Kitting lists and movement lists to print extra boxes to allow users to manually enter
  serial numbers of items selected for the picking list.

• Release Notes
  The control flag 'RN_SHOW_SO_COMMENTS' has been added to include sales order line comments into the 'comments' section of release notes.
  A new option has been added to Release note detail.  When selecting the release materials the user now has the option to select ALL items associated with
  the currently selected works order and add them to the release note.

• Invoice Day Book
  This report now shows the 'Customer Name' as well as the 'Customer Code'.

• Invoice Factoring
  A new option has been added to the sales invoice menu to allow invoices to be exported to factoring companies. The standard HSBC EDI format is currently available. Please contact support if you would like an estimate for adding other formats.

• Purchase Export Report
  This report now rounds the VAT on each line before adding it into the total VAT figure so that the total shown at the base of the report is always exactly the sum of the lines (there could previously have been a penny or two difference due to rounding issues).

• Stock Maintenance
  A new option has been added to the copy / replace part function.  If the part has an associated route the user now has the option to 'Create new route'. 
  The option, rather than adding the part into the existing route will simply create an entirely new route based on the new part.

• Forecast Stock Cover Report
  A new report has been added to the Stock Reports Menu called Forecast Stock Cover. This report is based on the information from the Forecast Stock screen - that is, live data except for the assembly requirements which are pulled from the latest MRP (with Lead Time if one exists). The report shows the available stock along with the average sales from last year and calculates the number of weeks stock cover based on last years sales.
  There is a screen view of the information on this report and on this screen view the user can press F5 to view the detailed Forecast Stock view for the selected part.

• Manufacturing Instructions
  A travel time can now be entered on each operation in the Manufacturing Instructions (as well as on works orders and in quotes). This represents the time it takes for the job to travel from this op onto the next. In this version this field is purely for reference purposes but in future versions it is planned to use it when calculating scheduling as the minimum time between operations.
  The default travel time for each resource is stored on Resource Maintenance. When creating new resources a control flag specifies the default for all new resources.

• Route Cards
  A new control flag has been added to route cards.  The control flag 'RC_SHOW_OP_TYPE' has been added to allow users to specify which type of Op time is shown on route cards.
  The options available are: 0 = Don't show at all, 1 = Total Op time and 2 = Op time per unit.  Please note that this function is only available for route card that use set / op times.
  Added style 29.

• Works Order Enquiry
  Works order enquiry has been updated with additional colour coding and notice to works order that have ALL operations complete.  These works orders should show as black on green in the WIP
  column of works order enquiry.
  A new column option of sales order number has been added to works order enquiry.

• Works Order related Error
  In previous versions changes to an area of the system that triggered a change to a works order (such as changes to a sales order linked to a works order) could, in certain circumstances, cause a Pervasive Database error (3014 or 3012). While the programs still did what it was meant to do, it would then throw the user out of the system. This error only occurred on installations using the Client/Server version of Pervasive - those using the default option of the Workgroup version of Pervasive did not get the problem. This has now been corrected.

• Works Order Components
  This program has been corrected so that the user remains parked on the same component after issuing stock to it.

• Works Order Audit Report
  The works order audit report has been updated to include associated changes in any works order components.

• Gant/Planning Board View
  This view is now colour coded and has the ability to highlight a selected works order wherever it appears in the view.

• Employee Pay Report
  This report has been modified to show far more detail of the hours worked and paid. There are also options to print each employee on a separate page and to give a breakdown of premium pay. A 'Preview' button has also been added.

• Movement Notes
  New options to create movement notes for allocating and confirming stock moves have been added.
  Movement Note maintenance allows these notes to be created, printed, the allocated stock modified and finally for them to be confirmed.
  From this screen movement notes can be created by assembly. This allows the user to enter an assembly and then choose to move stock for a given quantity of the components of that assembly into a new location.
  Users can also add stock to a movement note from the standard movement screen in stocked parts. If the 'Movement Note' box is ticked the move will not be carried out immediately but instead will be added to a movement note. These movement notes will be added to as the user makes multiple movements until the user prints the movement note, at which time a new one will be started.

• Warehouses
  The Location Maintenance screen has been updated to allow users to specify which warehouse a location resides.  Users can also setup a default warehouse which will automatically set any new locations to reside within the default warehouse.

• GUI Print Footer
  The GUI Print footer has been updated to allow the user the specify which documents the GUI Footer appears on.

• Stock Summary
  The Location & part report and the part & location reports have been combined to produce the Stock Summary Report.

• Document Layouts
  In order to ensure that future modifications to document layouts do not effect customers existing layouts, it has become necessary to keep a record of which document layouts customers are using.
  A new option has been added to the control file and the supervisor options to send your document layout settings the development team.  These setting can be sent either via fax / post or by email.
  It is advised that customers should send us these settings upon receiving this version, and when any changes to document settings have been made. 
  
  We thank you for your co-operation.

• Delivery Notes
  Delivery note style 20 has been added.

• Sales Invoices
  Invoice layouts 1, 2 and 4 will now always print the customer's VAT code. This may not have previously printed if the customer had a long address.

• Sage Line 50 Export
  There is now a choice as to what is exported to the 'Details' field of the Sage Line 50 export file. This can be changed in the 'Export Control' screen on either the Sales or Purchase 'Export To Sage' menus.

• Purchase Orders
  A new 'Internal Use Only' section has been added to the 'Additional Details' screen of a purchase order. If anything is entered in this field it will print out under a heading of 'For Internal Use Only' on layouts 1 to 4.
  The 'Drawing Number' can now also be specified when adding a stocked part to a purchase order. If entered, this will printout on the purchase order.
  A new control flag, 'INCLUDE_SUPPLIER_TERMS' has been added which, if set to 'Yes', will print the supplier's payment terms out on the purchase order (layouts 1 - 4 only).

• Purchase Order Expedite Tasks
  A new function has been added to allow an Expedite event to have a task created to remind the expeditor when expedition is due.  The control flag 'PO_EXPEDITE_TASKS' is used to
  enable / disable this function.

• Purchase Order Goods Received Report
  A new option has been added to this report to group items by 'Product Group' instead of by calendar month.

• Stocked Parts Colour Coding
  When using Route Card 5, a colour coding option is enabled in stocked parts.  When zooming from the description field in the stocked parts screen you can allocate a colour code to that part.
  This colour code is then applied to the part number when printing route card style 5.

• Phantom Assembly Maintenance
  The Phantom Assembly Maintenance screen now shows the appropriate issue number of the allocated drawing number. 

• Works Order Enquiry
  This screen has been totally redesigned for clarity. Each field is now shown in its own column, with the last two columns being 'switchable' to suit user preferences. Click on the buttons in the column headers to cycle round the five fields available. The fields chosen will be remembered for the next time you go into works order enquiry.
  The 'WIP' information has also been colour coded to reflect if the operation is on schedule, behing schedule or not scheduled.
  Internal works order can no longer be raised for 'non-active' stocked parts.

• Works Order Components
  The 'Free Issue' and 'Auto Issue' flags on this screen can now be edited. Note that they will be set back to the value specified in the assembly if the works order is refreshed from the assembly.

• Works Order Kitting
  The control flag 'KIT_DEFAULT_LOCATION_FIRST' has been added to allow FactoryMaster to try to kit a component from its default location before it checks any other locations.

• Works Order List Report
  An export function has been added to the Works Order List report.

• MRP Report
  An export function has been added to the MRP report.

• Engineering Change Notifications
  A new option has been added to the Quality Menu to record Engineering Change Notifications (ECN's). According to the setting of the new control flag 'ECN_ON_DRAWING_ISSUE_CHANGE', these are generated whenever the issue number of a drawing is changed. They can also be generated manually from the option in the quality menu. Please note that if the control flag is set to 1 (Ask) or 2 (Always) then users will now only be able to change the issue of a drawing if they have been given create access to ECN's.

• General Scan
  A general scan program has been added to FactoryMaster to enable the user to complete procedures with the use of scanners.
  As of this version, Works Order kitting has a General Scan barcode at the bottom of printed kitting lists so that users can scan the barcode and quickly confirm / amend & confirm kits.

• Country Codes
  A default currency code field has been added the currency maintenance screen.  This default currency code will be used in the areas of the system where both the country & currency
  need to be selected.  This update will mean that when using a country code with a default currency code, it should automatically update the appropriate currency field with the default
  currency set on the country code.

• Sales Price Lists
  It is now possible to show different ranges of parts on different sales price lists. Parts can be added to a price list either by pressing F4 in the 'Sales Price List' screen itself, or by zooming from the 'Sales List Prices' field on the pricing tab of the 'Stocked Parts' screen and clicking on 'Add'. Parts can be deleted from a price list either by pressing F3 in the 'Sales Price List' screen, or by zooming from the 'Sales List Prices' field on the pricing tab of the 'Stocked Parts' screen and clicking on 'Remove'. Note that making a stocked part redundant will remove it from ALL price lists.

• Sales Order Book
  Colour coding has been added to the required date on the Sales Order details screen which is identical to the colour coding on the date required on the
  call off screen from the Sales order entry screen.  The colour coding shows if a sales order call off is pending or overdue.
  
  The report 'Monthly Sales Orders Received by customers report' has been added to the reports menu.

• Sales Order Entry
  The sales order now allows a VAT code can now be entered against each call-off. This will default to the default code of the customer's country but can be amended if required. This will be shown on the new 'Pro-Forma' invoice layout, and will be transferred onto the call-off's invoice(s). The pro-forma can be found on a new 'Print' menu, together with the 'Order Acknowledgement' and 'Order Traveller'.

• Quotation Maintenance
  The 'Print Analysis' button has been replaced by a 'Reports' button which includes the quote analysis report and a new quote Maintenance report that prints quote details based on the
  quote maintenance screen.
  
  The Quote Success report has been updated to print customer additional details, such as company name, contact name and telephone number.

• Delivery Notes
  Delivery note style 19 has been added.

• Sales Invoice Report
  A new option has been added to the 'Monthly sales by customer' report.  The option is called 'Show previous years figures'.  This function includes the past years' monthly sales into the report.

• Purchase Orders
  A new control flag called 'PO_DISALLOW_PAST_DATES' has been introduced to stop users from creating a purchase order with a date in the past.  If this control flag is disabled the user will
  be notified that the purchase order date is in the past but will not prevent them from creating the purchase order.
  
  The 'Suppler Schedule' report has been updated to allow a range of suppliers.  Please note that the range only includes suppliers that have the 'Monitor Performance' option set.

• Stocked Parts
  The default view (live / all) has been added to the 'My Preferences' settings.
  
  A new field has been added to the options tab.  The Overhead rate field has been added to define the percentage overhead cost incurred when handling purchased stock.  This percentage
  is applied to: a) The stock value when booking in goods from a purchase order b) When calculating standard costs.
  
  Valuation codes have been updated to allow a default code.  This default code will be used when booking goods into stock.

• RM Stock
  The RM Valuation report has been updated to allow a summary and detailed version of the report.

• Resource Maintenance
  Resource Capacities and overrides are now shown on the Resource Maintenance screen rather on a separate screen. Global overrides can also be entered from the 'Options' menu on resource maintenance.
  The Delete/Undelete and Usage functions on resource maintenance are now available as buttons on the main Resource Maintenance screen rather than being hidden on the 'Options' menu.
  The planning board view available from the 'Options Menu' has been replaced by a new updated Gant Chart/Planning board view. This shows either 15 days or 5 days with three shifts per day. There is an option to print this new planning board view.

• Resource Reports
  The Utilisation Report and Utilisation Graph have been combined into one front screen.

• Scheduling & Resources
  Scheduling now has an option to specify on each resource whether it should be scheduled as Finite or Infinite. Each resource will initially default to Finite capacity. When running a schedule the user will be given a choice of 'Finite', 'Infinite' or 'As Resource'.

• Multiple Shifts and Machines per Resource
  Scheduling now calculates the shift and machine that each job should be performed on. This is done in a 'broad brush' way and is intended as a guide only.
  The number of shifts and machines per resource is calculated in the following way...
      Number of Shifts = Max Job Time/8 hours for example if the Max Job Time is 15 hours this would be considered as 1 shift of 8 hours and one shift of 7 hours
      Number of Machines = Capacity/Max Job Time for example if there is 15 hours capacity with a Max Job Time of 8 hours this would be treated as two machines, the first having a       capacity of 8 hours and the second having a capacity of 7 hours.
  The new Planning board view shows each machine within a resource separately (if there is more than one) and has an option to show each shift rather than a daily summary.
  The Schedule View by Resource now summarises by Resource but in the breakdown of jobs using that resource in a given day indicates which machine the job has been scheduled to use.

• Re-Order Card
  An option has been added to assembly maintenance to print a re-order card for any auto-issue components.

• Works Order Components
  Works order components have been updated with colour coding to represent the current ability to satisfy the component requirements. 
  Red = Cannot Satisfy (No stock), Amber = Can Partially satisfy, Green = Can fully satisfy.

• Route Cards
  Style 24 has been adjusted so that the user can print: a) Cutting tickets, b) Sewing tickets, c) Both.  A sewing ticket maintenance screen has been added to allow users to specify how many
  tickets and the quantity to show on each ticket.  The screen can also be used to print re-prints of any printed sewing tickets.
  
  Added style 28
  
  A new control flag has been added.  The control flag 'ASK_PRINT_CHILDREN' has been added to prompt the user when printing route cards if they want to print any sub W/O's
  along with the parent W/O route card.

• MRP
  The MRP print now includes a total for the MA and BI sections. If the report is printed for a range of items then the total will reflect the items included in the range.

• Quality
  A new colour report has been added.  The 'Supplier Performance Chart' has been added to show supplier PPM over a 12 month period, each month is colour coded based on
  a criteria set at the beginning of the report.
  
  Both the customer & supplier Parts Per Million (PPM) reports have been updated to allow a 'base date' for the report to be based on.  This allows users to view historic PPM data.

• Shift Maintenance
  The hours and breaks of a defined shift code can now be edited even if the code is in use. The user will be presented with a list any historic days using the code and asked if the hours on these days are to be updated or not. Days which have already been authorised will not be changed.

• Data Capture
  There is now an option to include a Lunch Break button on data capture/time recording. This is intended for use if an employee takes their lunch break off site. The employee will not be marked as on site and will NOT appear on the fire roll call. The time the employee leaves for lunch and the time he/she comes back will be compared to the lunch break in the shift pattern. If they match then no absence will be booked in the time and attendance screen - if on the other hand the employee either leaves early or gets back late an absence will be booked and have to be authorised, this absence will only be from the time they left up to the time they should have left, or from the time they should have got back up to the time they did get back.

• Audit Trial
  A new audit trail report has been added to print out the changes to a particular audit system area.
  
  A specific Works Order Audit report has been added to allow users to print out changes made to the required date or required quantity of works orders.  Please note that this report will only
  work with records created after this version of FactoryMaster is installed.

• Sales Order Reports
  All 'Sales Orders By...' report types can now be ranged on 'Date Ordered'. Note however that most of the layouts do not actually display this field.

• Sales Header Report
  This report now indicates if any deliveries have been made against the shown sales orders.

• Delivery Notes
  A control flag called 'DN_PRINT_NOW_FALSE' had been added to default all new delivery notes 'Print Now' status to be false so that users don't accidentally print delivery notes created concurrently by other users.

• Invoice Styles
  Added Invoice style 14

• Sales Exports To Sage
  The Sage export routines now handle invoice and credit note discounts correctly. Discounts on an invoice are now exported as  (positive) credit transactions, whilst discounts on a credit note are processed as (positive) sales transactions.

• Price Maintenance
  This screen has been redesigned to allow gross prices and supplier discount percentages to be entered. The pricing options have been moved onto the main screen and most of these can now be changed even if batch prices exist.

• Purchase Orders
  A new control flag called 'INCLUDE_RM_LONG_DESC' has been added which, if set to 'Yes', will add the notes entered against a raw material (using the option 'Stock Maintenance Menu / Stock Categories / Raw Materials') to the body text of a purchase order.

• Order By Supplier
  This screen has been redesigned to show gross prices and discounts. The loophole allowing you to enter a 'basic' price even if the 'Order In Multiples Of' setting forbade it has also been closed.

• Purchase Invoice Matching
  FactoryMaster now allows the user to specify which currency an invoice should be matched in. This will default to the default currency of the entered supplier.

• Stocked Parts
  A new control flag called 'DEFAULT_STK_VIEW_ALL' has been added to default the Stock Details screen to show all batches rather than just live batches.

• Show Issue Status
  A new control flag called 'SHOW_ISSUE_STATUS' has been added to show the current issue status of a works order.  Please note that enabling this option will require the system to check the issue status of all pending works orders and may prove to be an increased performance overhead on works orders with a lot of components.

• Works Order Enquiry
  The 'Seen by Stores' option has been updated to allow multiple 'Seen by..' stati which can be defined by the user and applied to a works order.  The 'Seen by types' maintenance program can be found within the Bespoke options section of the supervisor options.
  Completing a works order within Works Order Enquiry has also been updated to allow the user to cancel booking in stock from a works order.

• Route Cards
  Inspection sheets have been updated to allow multiple styles, using the control flag 'INSPECTION_SHEET_STYLE' a user can choose a particular inspection sheet style to print with a route card.
  Added route card style 27.

• Autoraise W/O or P/O from MRP
  The option to Autoraise Purchase Orders from the MRP now takes account of the 'order in multiples' value used for purchase orders in other parts of the system. This option no longer takes account of the Manufacturing EBQ which should only be applied to works orders.
  The spares contingency added to the system in a previous version is now also applied to the suggested quantity for purchase orders being raised from the MRP.

• Customer Returns
  The ability to cancel a customer return has been added to allow users to cancel and remove from stock any incorrect customer returns.  This feature can be found in the Quality menu, in the Customer Returns screen.

• Internal Rejects
  Internal rejects now allows users to enter information into the previously unavailable 'reference' field.

• Schedule Adherence
  A new report has been added to the Scheduling reports.  The Schedule Adherence report has been added to allow users to view  all resources completed operations, total amount of operations and their adherence to the schedule expressed as a percentage over a week time period.

• Time Sheet Summary View
  A print and preview function have been added to the Time Sheet summary view.

• Auto Create Contract Purchase Orders
  A program to automatically create control purchase orders has been added and is available through the bespoke options section of the supervisor options menu.

• Scheduled Shift Changes
  Scheduled shift changes can now be effective from a historical date. Changes could previously only be made from 'tomorrow'.

• Timesheet Entry
  This screen has been completely redesigned and now also shows data capture records which can be converted to manual records and edited by users with the correct access. As well as being called from the main menu, links to this screen have also been added to 'Employee Maintenance' and the 'Authorisation Screen'. The old 'Employees On Site' view on the 'T&A Reports Menu' has been removed as all this information is now available in a better format elsewhere.

• System Maintenance
  The system maintenance option that stops users logging in can now be set by any user with FULL system access. A user with FULL access will be allowed to log back into the system but will immediately be warned that system maintenance is underway and will not be able to access any options until they unset this option again.

• Zoom to lookup screens
  In the conversion from Magic 8 to Magic 9 some fields that allowed a zoom to a selection screen have lost this ability. All those which have been identified have been corrected in this version.

• FactoryMaster v9 has upgraded to use the underlying eDeveloper engine from MSE rather than Magic 8 as the older versions used. This underlying engine should behave the same way as the old version but allows new options to be added that were not possible before.

• New Look & Feel
  The appearance of some screens (predominantly the menus) has changed. This should NOT affect the working of the system. Menus now only need a single click on them and the main menu and sub-menus all look and behave the same.
  FactoryMaster now requires 1024x768 as a minimum resolution and all screens should fit on this with a standard size task bar NOT minimized in Windows XP  (which has the least space at this resolution of all operating systems.) In addition some screens will now expand to fill whatever working area is available either automatically or the user can expand them. Currently this ability to expand is only on a few screens but it is planned to add it to more and more in the future versions.

• FactoryMaster Copy Security
  Due to the expanding customer base for the FactoryMaster product (multiple countries and their licensing laws) FactoryMaster now requires a hardware dongle to run. The dongle we use can be installed on ONE machine in the network and allows a set number of users to login from across the network. The dongle should be installed on the server as it should be available for the entire time the data files are available. If it is not possible to install this on the server (such as with a Novell server) then it should be installed on a dedicated machine that is only re-booted when the server is re-booted.
  The address of the company who have purchased FactoryMaster will be coded into the dongle and companies will need to contact FactoryMaster for a dongle upgrade code to change either that address, the modules installed or the number of users. These codes can be given over the phone with only some exceptions.

• Login & User Access
  User Login is now handled by FactoryMaster rather than relying on the underlying engine and for this reason ALL PASSWORDS HAVE BEEN RESET. All user logins should still be valid but they will all have blank passwords. This has the huge advantage than users no longer need to be setup in two places. Maintenance of user logins is now done through the new improved user access system and it is no longer necessary to setup users in the underlying engine AND in the user access system.
  
  The SUPERVISOR login has now been replaced by the ADMIN login. It is also possible to set any user to an access of FULL which will give that user access to everything that used to require a login as SUPERVISOR. There is no longer any need to login as supervisor to run certain options as any user with FULL access will be able to run these options.
  
  User access itself has been substantially re-designed. Users can now be given one of four access types...
  1. Individual - If a user is set to this the administrator can choose on each program (for which it is available) if the user has View/Modify/Create/Delete access to that program.
  2. Group - Users can be placed in a group. Programs that the group have access to can be edited in the same way as programs for an individual but the changes affect ALL members of the group
  3. FULL - Users in this group have access to EVERYTHING that it is possible to have access to. This user will also have access to any new programs or programs for which users access is added.
  4. Specific - Users with this access type only have access to ONE program and that program will be launched automatically as they login. FactoryMaster will then close as they close that program.
  
  The standard view of users access has now been supplemented by a new view. This new view is sorted by access code rather than be user. This enables the administrator to see/edit who has a specific program rather than only being able to see/edit what a specific user has.
  
  When new users access codes are added to the system they will only be given to users with the type FULL. The person performing the upgrade will be informed if new users access flags have been added to the system and these will be colour coded in the new view by access code.

• Quotes
  It is now possible to modify the assembly on a quote. A new quote will still get it's assembly structure from the Bill of Materials but it can then be modified on the quote. Please note that the structure on the quote will then be independent of the one on the Bill of Materials and changes to it will not be reflected on the Bill of Materials and will need to be made in both places if necessary.

Purchase Order Authorisation
A new control flag (PO_AUTHORISATION) has been added which, if set, requires that all purchase orders are authorised by an appropriate manager prior to being printed or sent out. Employees can be given an 'Authorisation Level' which means they will only be able to authorise purchases orders with a total value up to that level.

Access to the authorisation screen is controlled by the access key 'Purchase Order Authorisation'.
Access to the setting of authorisation levels for different users is controlled by the access key 'P/O Authorisation Levels'.

• Copy Live to Play
  A new control flag called 'EXCLUDE_USER_ACCESS'  has been introduced to preserve the user access rights setup on the Play system. 

• Company Address Details
  Your company's 'Registration Number', 'Email Address' and 'Website' can now be stored on the address file. Note however that you will need an authorisation code if you change any of these details.

• Customer Maintenance
  Full address details can now be entered for customers even if the 'Cash Sales' flag is set. Orders raised against these customers will default to needing an address to be entered but the 'main' address can now be used if required.
  
  An additional user access right; 'Amend Customer Rep' has been added to allow supervisors to specify which users have the ability to add, modify and remove customer representatives.

• Sales Orders
  The entry of the 'Ordered By', 'Deliver To' and 'Invoice To' customers has been moved onto a separate screen where alternative addresses (applicable only to that order) can also be defined. This replaces and builds on the old 'Cash Sales' function in previous versions.
  
  On 'SAP' orders, the additional details can now be reached by zooming on the chevron (>). For non-SAP orders zooming on these fields shows optional intrastat details.
  
  New user access rights have been given to allow supervisors to specify which users have the ability to release and hold sales orders.  The user access right to place orders on hold is
  'Hold Customers', and the access right to release them is 'Release Customers'  These user access items also apply to the holding and releasing of sales orders from Customer Maintenance.
  Contract review now has the ability to apply notes to each price break.

• Delivery Notes
  Extra fields have been added to the 'Deliver Note Detail' screen to enable the user to enter 'Carrier', 'Consignment Note' and carton information. These fields are all optional.

• Invoice Details
  A new (optional) 'Authorised By' field has been added to this screen

• Invoice Layouts
  Invoice layouts 8, 12 and 13 have been added.

• Suppliers Price List
  Suppliers Price list has been updated to be able show batch prices in either local (supplier's) currency or Home currency.

• Purchase Order Layouts
  Purchase order layout 9 has been added.

• Stocked Parts
  A new item has been added to stocked parts under the Options tab: Contingency.  This item represents the percent amount of a part which is suggested to be ordered for contingency.
  This item is taken into effect during manual purchase orders, Order by Works Order and Order by Sales Order.
  
  There is now a selection table and verification on the 'Customs Reference' field.

• Country Of Origin
  A new 'Country Of Origin' field has been added to the 'Goods Received' screen. If completed, this will be stored on the batch record and can be viewed by zooming on the 'Batch Number' field on the 'Stock Details' screen. For purchased parts, the default Country Of Origin can be stored on the part's 'Supplier Prices' record.

• Manufacturing Instructions
  The Manufacturing Instruction History sheet can now be printed manually from Manufacturing Instructions.

• Route Cards
  Route Card style 24 has been added

• Compete Works Order
  When completing a works order the screen now shows both the works order quantity and the quantity on sales orders rather than just one "Qty Ordered" which was the works order quantity.

• Works Order Enquiry
  Works order enquiry has been updated to allow the printing of unprinted or all route's which are from a particular Workshop.  This update also applies to the Route Card queue.

• Work To List
  An export function has been added to the Work To List

• Quality Menu
  The quality menu has been re-arranged to group items into 'Customer' or 'Supplier' sub-menus. Some performance monitoring items will now be available to customers who have NOT purchased the 'Quality' module. A new 'Customer Satisfaction Log' has been added which allows you to record responses from your customers in key performance areas.

• Employee Maintenance
  The authorisation screen and its report can now be sorted by either employee name or employee code.

• Currency Maintenance
  Changes to this screen are now included in the standard Audit program.

• Quote Maintenance
  This screen now has tabs for Pending, Ordered, Unsuccessful and All quotes. Quotes will be automatically moved to ordered if the Create Order Button is pressed or if an order is recorded against the quote in the option available on the screen. Quotes can be moved manually between Ordered and Unsuccessful.
  There is also a new sort order choice on this screen.

• RTF Quote Letter
  If the control flag SPEC_INST_ON_QUOTE_LETTER is set the special instructions from the quote will be available for inclusion on the RTF quote letter.

• Deliveries
  The sales order item number is now indicated on the delivery screen. It is also now possible to date a delivery before today.
  The delivery reports now show the date ordered on the layout that had enough room for the new field.
  When viewing the detail of an Delivery in Delivery History a Summary button is now available. If a part is on the delivery more than once this button will show the total delivered for each part.

• Invoices
  Invoice layout 3 now includes two new fields (Trade Price and Discount).
  When viewing the detail of an Invoice in Invoice History a Summary button is now available. If a part is on the invoice more than once this button will show the total invoiced for each part.
  When creating invoices it is now possible to restrict access so that users can only change and print invoices that THEY have raised. This is set using the control flag INV_CRED_BY_USER. New items will only be added to an existing invoice if being done by the user who originally created the invoice. These restrictions only apply within the Invoice Production program and are intended to stop accidental changes of other users invoices. Any user can change an invoice in the Invoice History screen.

• Sales Analysis
  There is now a new Sales Analysis export available.

• Sales Works Orders Report
  This report can now be ranged by the 'Ordered By' customer.

• Sales Release Notes
  The release notes now show an END OF DOCUMENT message at the bottom. If Serial Numbers are being printed a message will be shown on the front sheet stating that Serial Numbers will follow. The Last Serial Number page will then show the END OF DOCUMENT message.

• Scrap Locations
  Locations can now be given a location type of scrap. These locations are intended for the storage of scrap stock that should not be used. It is not possible to deliver stock from these locations to customers, it will not be included when creating kits and stock in scrap locations will not be included on the MRP. In addition many parts of the system that previously excluded quarantine locations (generally used for new un-inspected stock) will also exclude scrap locations.

• Standard Costs
  When automatically calculating standard costs the system no longer includes Free Issue components in the calculation for manufactured parts.

• Phantom Parts
  Phantom Parts can now have drawings and manufacturing instructions associated with them. In addition works orders can be raised for phantom parts, although they CANNOT BE STOCKED. If a works order is raised for a phantom assembly the system will book the immediate component parts (MA or BI) into stock when it is completed. The components of the phantom works order will include any raw material components entered against it in assemblies plus the components of the MA and BI parts that will be booked into stock. The parts that will be booked into stock will NOT be included in the works order components.

• Manufacturing Instructions
  It is now possible to set up optional alternative resources against each operation by pressing F6 on the resource code within Manufacturing Instructions. If these are set up in this way the system will ask the user which resource should be used when applying them to the works order.

• Route Cards
  If the control flag ROUTE_REVISON_CONTROL is set to YES the extra sheet that printed with the route cards can now be turned off using the control flag DISABLE_ROUTE_REV_PRINT.
  Small amendments have been made to route card style 3 including the printing of the latest route revision in the title.

• Works Order Reports
  A new works order efficiency report has been added. For historic operations this report shows the efficiency of each resource based on the planned times and the actual times.

• Tool Register
  This screen now has the option to sort by Tool Type and Serial Number or just be Serial Number.

• Job Costing
  In Manual Job Costing Entry it is now possible to enter either the unit cost or the total cost. If the either is left blank it will be calculated from the other.
  The WIP Costs report now has an option to only show costs booked to the works order in a given date range.

• Employee Maintenance
  This has been redesigned to allow for new options. The screen now lists all employees in a table view and users can press F5 to view more detailed information about each employee.
  This now allows personal information to be entered about employees such as address and date of birth.
  WARNING - You should ensure that you are covered by the DATA PROTECTION ACT before entering any personal information of this sort.

• Payroll Options
  New payroll options have been added to the system in accordance with the calculation methods used by a particular FactoryMaster customer. These include holiday provision with a choice of two calculation rules, flexible overtime provision (based on whether the overtime is before or after the shift, or even on a day the employee was not expected in at all) and piece rate premiums based on the standard times entered against the manufacturing instructions.

• Authorised Hours
  The Authorised Hours screen has changed to allow for the new payroll options. A user with sufficient access rights can click on the total hours for each employee to see their weeks payroll information. They can also press on the button at the bottom of the screen to see the payroll information for all users for that day.
  When manually altering the shift for one day through this screen users can now choose an alternative shift code if required or enter the details manually as before.

• Absence Booking
  Block Absences and Single Absence are now booked through one routine rather than two separate ones. This is still available from the Time & Attendance Menu as before.

• Scheduled Shift Changes
  This has been moved on to a new Sub-Menu of Time & Attendance called Scheduled Changes. This new sub-menu also allows scheduled changes of Job Code (payroll information).

• Time Booking Report
  A new Op Completion report is now available from this menu. This report finds the date that each operation was completed BASED ON ACTUAL TIME BOOKINGS.

• Sales Order Acknowledgement
  Order Acknowledgement Layout 6 has been added.

• Sales Orders - Back to Back Purchase Orders
  When the system checks the quantities and values on a sales order it also now checks the quantity on back to back purchase orders.

• OLD Delivery Routine
  The old delivery routine has been removed in this version. Any people still using it will now need to use to the new version. If any deliveries were waiting at the end of the old delivery routine and were present during the upgrade these will have to be cancelled and re-raised. Users will be presented with a list of these to cancel when they go back into the system. They should be canceled on this screen, then re-raised using the new routine.

• Delivery Notes
  Delivery Note Layout 17 has been added.
  Delivery Note 10 now shows the Actual Cost values rather than the Standard Cost Values.

• Invoices
  Invoice Layout 10 has been added.

• Release Notes
  When adding materials to a release note the list of material issued to the works order now includes the materials issued to the any works orders which were split to create this works order.

• Purchase Order by Sales Order report
  This report now correctly shows the free stock and free purchase orders.

• Assemblies
  There is now an option to show the sales list prices rather than cost prices or the lead time. This option is also available on the standard assembly report.
  A new assembly report has been added which is specifically designed to calculate the costs in certain way. This uses the batch prices for each part that is specified as for use when calculating a standard cost. It uses the sum of this cost on component levels when costing Manufactured Parts.

• Trial Kitting
  The analysis options within Trial Kitting are now available for Raw Materials as well as stocked parts.

• Move/Issue Stock
  There is no longer a problem when stock is returned to a location it has never been in.

• Stocktake Reports
  The Stocktake Value report now has an option to either print the standard cost or print the Stocktake value for a simple Stocktake. This will be reflected through all parts and through components of phantom assemblies.
  The Stocktake by Location report now shows product group totals when choosing the option to print by product group.

• Stocked Parts Report
  This report now correctly shows the preferred supplier when it is not the first in the list.

• Raw Material Stock Labels
  It is now possible to print Raw Material Stock Labels in a format similar to the stocked parts ones.

• Works Order Components
  The option to show analysis of works order components in a similar way to Trial Kitting has been extended to include Raw Materials.

• Route Cards
  Route Card Style 22 has been corrected when printing more than one page.

• MRP Trace View
  This view now show the week commencing dates and the actual dates of transactions rather than the C/F 1, C/F 2, etc.

• Employee Report
  A new report has been added to show the employee details entered in Employee Maintenance.

• Employee Clocking
  In previous versions if the clocking record for a non-charge job was altered by a supervisor the total time on the job was doubled. This has been stopped and all existing data has been corrected.
  When a supervisor is editing employee clocking records it is now possible to alter the resource rate used for the clocking. Options on the screen allow it to be set to the current resource rate or it can be edited manually.

• Data Capture
  When viewing Drawing Images on Data Capture it is now possible to view all drawings if multiple ones exist.

• Decimals on Stocked Parts
  An option will be visible in this version to allow decimals on stocked parts. While internal changes to allow this option have been completed in this version, the option is NOT available yet and will follow in subsequent version.

• Decimals on Assemblies
  In previous versions quantities of Stocked parts required on assemblies have had a maximum of 3 decimal places. It is now possible to enter an 'Assembly Decimals' quantity on the stocked parts screen. This will allow the control of how many decimal places each part is allowed when used as a component on an assembly. When these Assemblies are applied to a works order the quantity will be rounded UP based on the number of decimal places on the stocked part. In this version that will always be to the next whole number.
  N.B. Once this number has been raised it will NOT be possible to lower it again. You should only raise this number if you are absolutely certain that you want to for the given part.

• AUDIT TRAILS
  The Audit trails from many areas of the system have now been combined into one format and others have been added to it. CTRL+A is now a standard system key to show the audit.
  If CTRL+A is pressed on the main menu or on an area of the system that is not included in the audit the user will be presented with a list of the areas that ARE included in the audit and will be able to zoom in to view the audit records.
  If CTRL+A is pressed in an area of the system that is included in the audit the user will be shown just the relevant records. In many cases this will be specific to the record currently selected, such as the particular purchase order.

• Who's On The System
  It is now possible for the supervisor to log out users who have not done anything for the last five hours (rather than 24 hours previously).

• Delivery Notes
  Delivery Note style 10 has been changed to show actual costs rather than standard costs.

• Route Cards
  Route card style 23 has been corrected to no longer print one page for each operation.

• Serial Number allocation to Works Orders
  It is now possible to allocate serial numbers to works orders. When the works order is completed these serial numbers are transferred to the finished parts.

• Raw Material stock Labels
  It is now possible to print Raw Material Stock Labels of a similar style to the existing stocked parts labels.

• System Audit
  A new system audit has been created to record & display changes the following system areas:
      - Delivery Notes
      - Invoices
      - Release Notes
      - Works Orders
  Please note that this does not change / replace existing audits.
  This audit is accessible from the main menu or from the system areas outlined above by pressing CTRL+A.

• Customer Maintenance
  A new control 'Cash Sales' has been added to Customer Maintenance.  This control used to designate one or more customers codes as Cash Sales customers which can
  then be setup and used in Sales Orders and any other related documentation. 

• Sales Price List
  There is now a choice in the way that sales list prices can be calculated from the purchase price.

  • Setting the control flag 'SALES_MARKUP_TYPE' to 1 (the default) will markup prices by a percentage dependant on the unit purchase cost (eg markup items with purchase prices up to £50 by 100%, items up to £100 by 75% and up to £500 by 50%.

  • Setting the control flag to 2 allows prices to be marked up by their supplier (eg items bought from SUPPLIER1 are marked up by 40%, items from SUPPLIER2 by 20% etc)

• Sales Order Numbers
  A new control flag has been introduced called 'SALES_ORDER_NO_DIGITS' and can be found in the Sales tab of the control file. 
  This flag is used to control the number of digits required in Auto Generated Sales Order Numbers.  The default of this flag is 6.

• Simple Sales Orders
  The 'date required' on Simple Sales Orders can now be amended so long as nothing has been delivered or allocated to a picklist.

• Release Notes
  The system now stores the full address and part Descriptions on the Release Note.  A user with sufficient access rights can change them separately on the documents.
  A selection has been added to release note details that allows users to select which item is used in the 'Ex release note' field, either Release note, Advice note or Incoming release note.
  A default selection for this can be defined using the 'DEFAULT_EX_REL_SHOW' in the sales tab of the control file.

• Supplier Maintenance
  Supplier Maintenance has been updated to allow Suppliers to be marked as deleted, but not remove them from the system entirely in the same way as customer maintenance.
  Deleted suppliers could then be undeleted and restored to their original status.

• Purchase Order Reports
  An export facility has been added to the Purchase Order Report.

• Purchase Order Invoice Reports
  A new report 'Monthly Receipts by Supplier' has been added to the Purchase Invoice Reports menu.

• Stock Details
  A modification has been made to allow users to zoom to the source of a Purchase order receipt, or a Works order receipt, which can be found in the details
  of a Stock Transaction.

• Quarantine User Access
  A new user access control has been added called 'Issue Quarantine Stock'.  This access control enables supervisor to delegate which users are allowed to issue stock from
  quarantine locations.  Please note, this control has no effect on stock being booked into a quarantine location.

• Drawing Register
  An improvement has been made to allow Drawings to be associated with more than one Image file.  Users also have the option to select what is to be done when a route card using that
  drawing is printed, either Do nothing, open in viewer or copy to a location.

• Assembly Maintenance
  CTRL+10 now calls forecast stock for the part that the user is parked on. The 'Current Level' indicator has also been enhanced for additional clarity.

• Assembly Report
  The option to show Sales list prices' has been added to the Assembly Report.  A level 1 standard cost total has also been added to the Assembly report.

• Missing Manufacturing Instruction Report
  This is now available from the Manufacturing Instruction Options Menu and from the Works Order Reports Menu.

• Route Cards
  Route Card styles 15 and 16 now show the part number correctly.

• Works Order Kitting
  The option to view Raw Material Spec Notes has been added to the Print W/O kit function.  This option is controlled by the 'ASS_SHOW_SPEC_NOTES' flag in the Stock tab of the control file.

• Work To List
  The work to list has been modified to include the Status of the previous and current Works Order operation.

• MRP Lead Time
  There are now three options for Lead Time on the MRP
  1. Apply Lead Time - Show Start Dates
  2. Apply Lead Time - Show Requirement Dates
  3. No Lead Time - Show Requirement of Parent Part
  Option 2 is the new option and is now the default and recommended option. Option 1 is equivalent to the old option of 'Apply Lead Time' and option 3 is equivalent to not ticking 'Apply Lead Time' in the older versions.

• Supplier Concessions and Supplier Production Permits
  These new options have been added to the system. They work in a similar way to Customer Concessions and Customer Production Permits.
  If the control flag SUPP_CONC/PRODPERM_CHECK is true the system will check these concessions and production permits when stock is booked in from a supplier and the reference will be written onto the stock where relevent. The references will also be printed on stock labels.

• Job Costing
  A control flag called 'JBCST_PLANNED_COST_TYPE' has been introduced to control which Costing type is required when using job costing.  This flag can be found in the W/O tab of the control file.

• Edit Data Capture Times
  The list of clocking records no longer shows an incorrect part description for Non-Charge records.