Sending Purchase Orders to Ace

Use the following procedure to transmit a PO to Ace Hardware. This procedure assumes you have a PO in the Purchasing and Receiving window that you wish to transmit, and you have already completed telecommunications setup.

1. From the Eagle Browser, enter EPO in the Launch bar and press Enter.

Alternatively, you can click on the Ace Telecommunications Menu, and then select Send Purchase Orders (EPO).

2. In the Electronic Purchase Orders report window, in the Control Stream field, enter the name of your control stream for sending POs, or leave the default if your control stream name is ACE.

Multistore:  You must be locked into the appropriate store. Then, enter the control stream that was created for that store. For example, Store 2's control stream might be called ACE2.

3. Click . Fill in the fields on the screen.

4. Ship-to Store

   If you have only one store, you can leave the Ship To Store field blank.

   Multistore: use the table below to determine how to fill in the Ship-To Store field.

   If you're transmitting...	Then
   purchase orders created in several stores, and you want the merchandise delivered to the various stores where it's on order	leave the Ship-To Store box blank.
   purchase orders created in several stores, but you want all the merchandise delivered to one store	type that store's number in the Ship-To Store box.
   purchase orders created in just one store, and you want the merchandise delivered to that store	leave the Ship-To Store box blank
   purchase orders created in just one store, but you want to receive the merchandise at another store	type that store's number in the Ship-To Store box

5. Purchase Order Type

   leave the 0 if this is a regular warehouse order, or enter a 1 if this is a Bulletin order.

6. Options

   You can select option C if you want to consolidate quantities for multiple occurrences of an item on the PO. Select option X only if you've previously transmitted the PO(s) and you need to re-transmit.

7. Send Regular Retail

   If you enter Y, your inventory retail price transmits. It prints on the invoice in the Regular Retail column.

   If you enter N, your inventory retail price is not transmitted and does not print on the invoice.

8. Send Ace Retail

   If you enter Y, your inventory retail price transmits. It prints on the invoice in the Ace Retail column.

   If you enter N, your inventory retail price is not transmitted and does not print on the invoice.

4. Click . Fill in the fields on the screen.

5. Store

   Use the table below to help you fill in the Store field.

   If You're Transmitting	Then
   POs for one store	Enter that store number
   POs for various stores	Leave it blank
   Not sure which stores have POs	Leave it blank

6. Vendor Code

   At Vendor Code, use the drop-down arrow to select your code for Ace.

7. PO Number

   At PO Number From and To, enter the range of purchase order numbers you want to format and transmit.

   For the store you entered, each purchase order for Ace within this range and whose Status is F will be included for the transmission. The Epicor Eagle™ system makes a copy of those purchase orders and formats the copy for transmission.

5. Click Run to start the transmission.

6. (Optional) Before you exit the Sending Purchase Orders window, you may want to save the report with the options you selected so that you don't have to re-select the same options the next time you run it.

7. Give the transmission a few minutes to process, and then check the transmission results.

8. From the Eagle Browser in the Launch bar, type ASYMSG and press <Enter>.

9. Press Next (F7) to view the correct section of the log.  A message similar to the following indicates a successful transmission.

BTC : ACE BEGIN TRANSMISSION

BTC : PO 12345 REFORMATTED FOR TRANSMISSION

ACE : STARTING BTC JOB

ACE : DIALING 18008994028

ACE : HANGING UP

ACE : HANGING UP

ACE : BTC JOB SUCCEEDED

BTC : PO TRANS. IS COMPLETE

BTC : PO TRANSMISSION WAS SUCCESSFUL