Version 9.39 May 2006

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• Who's On The System
  This screen now shows users who are in both the live and play systems. The count of users includes the users from both systems.

• System Audit
  The general audit has been added to the 'Supplier Price Maintenance' screens.

• System Message Recipients
  It is now possible to send an automatic system message to selected users whenever a works order is completed. The list of users to be notified can be maintained via the 'System Message Recipients' option of the 'System Maintenance / System Settings' menu.

• Import Manager
  The import menu has been changed to use a 'tree' structure to make it easier to locate the import required. Various imports can now be customised to match the structure of an existing CSV file - the CSV file previously had to be edited to match the structure defined by FactoryMaster. Imports currently allowing customisation are 'Customers', 'Suppliers', 'Stocked Parts', 'Assemblies', 'Resource Codes', 'Resource Groups' and 'Product Groups'.

• Customer Maintenance
  When viewing the contacts associated with a customer from 'Customer Maintenance' the 'Contacts' screen now locates on the default contact rather than the first.

• Raw Material Prices On Quotations
  The 'Raw Materials' tab will now show the price of raw materials which are priced 'by weight'. These previously just showed the legend 'By Weight' meaning that the user had to zoom in to see the actual prices.

• Sales Order Maintenance
  The performance of the 'header view' of this screen has been significantly improved. The screen previously took a long time to open if orders with multiple call-offs existed.
  The 'Pending' tab is now also selected by default in all circumstances.

• Sales Call-off Audit
  If a sales order's currency is changed the call-off audit now correctly shows prices from before the change in the old currency.

• Sales Order Reports
  The range previously labeled 'Date Ordered' has been renamed 'Date Order Received' to match the date shown near the top of the 'Sales Order Entry' screen. The performance of reports using this range has also been significantly improved.

• Delivery Dates
  The 'CHECK_DELIVERY_DATES' control flag, which can be set to suggest delivery dates for 'future' requirements, has been extended to apply to delivery notes raised from picklists.

• Contract Review
  The 'auto contract review' option will now only use quotes raised against a different customer if the control flag 'CR_AUTO_OTHER_CUSTOMER' is set to 'Yes'.

• RTF Styles
  Various RTF styles have had additional data tags added.  Please refer to the tag list of the desired document to view available data tags.

• Release Note Details
  The 'Sales Release Note' screen now has the ability to show the serial numbers of items that were issued to the selected component.  Please note that these serial numbers are only available to be printed on the
  RTF release note.

• Invoice Day Book Export
  The 'Invoice Day Book' export has been updated to allow user defined column selection.

• Purchase Order Extended Descriptions
  A new control flag ('P/O_INCLUDE_SP_NOTES') has been added which, if set to 'Yes', will automatically include the extended 'Notes / Comments' defined for a stocked part on the purchase order. This setting can still be overridden for items added manually to a purchase order by ticking / unticking the check box.

• Purchase Invoice History
  A QuickBar has been added to the 'Purchase Invoice History' screen.

• Min / Max Stock Report
  A new report has been added to display details of stock that use minimum & maximum stock.  The report can be used to view all / range of items that use min/max stock,
  items that currently fall below minimum stock levels or items that exceed maximum stock levels.

• Part Serial Number Label Print
  A new label print feature has been added to allow users to print out labels to be attached to items that are serial number controlled.

• Trial Kitting
  Trial kitting has been updated with colour coding.  Components coloured in 'orange' currently have LIVE works orders.  Users can then use the Hotkey facility to view
  the live works orders.

• Drawing Register
  The 'Drawing Register' has been updated with the addition of 3 user-definable fields.  The titles of these fields can be setup in the system control file.

• Auto-Issue Components
  The system will now attempt to return the relevant quantity of any auto-issue components back to their 'auto-issue location' if any 'finished stock' is returned to the works order.

• Scheduling
  The previous, overriding exclusion of works orders with a status of 'WM' from the schedule has been removed. The schedule will now only exclude works orders whose status is marked as 'Exclude From Schedule' or those with any 'On Hold' code.

• Capacity Planning
  Various refinements to the calculation process used by capacity planning have been made.
  The Capacity Planning report has been updated with the addition of a graph.  The graph option should allow users to view resources within a resource group, as well as a group
  total in an illustrated format.

• WIP Costs Report
  The control flag WIP_CALC_METHOD specifies how the WIP costs are calculated. When set to 1 it uses the same methods as in all previous versions. When set to 2 it uses a new method which is bespoke to a particular customer of FactoryMaster.

• Supplier Scan & Adherence
  This report now has an option to use either the 'original' requirement date or the 'acknowledged' requirement date.