Sending Purchase Orders to Do it Best

Use the following procedure to transmit a PO to Do it Best Corp. 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 Do it Best 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 HWI.

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 HWI2.

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.

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 Retail

   If you want to send your prices to Do it Best Corp. for printing price labels, you may enter Y at Send Retail, or at Send Desired GP%.  If you enter Y at Send Retail, the retails from the PO will be sent to Do it Best. The PO retails come from Inventory Maintenance, unless you typed a different price in the PO, in which case that price will be sent.

   Multistore: If you are transmitting a consolidated purchase order, then the retail price in Inventory Maintenance of the store with the highest store number is transmitted.

   You can send only one, Retail Prices or Desired GP%, so do not type Y in both fields.

8. Send Desired GP%

   If you want to send your prices to Do it Best Corp. for printing price labels, you may type Y at Send Retail, or at Send Desired GP%.  

   Multistore: if you enter Y in the Send Desired GP% field, the Desired Gross Profit Percent from Inventory Maintenance is transmitted. Do it Best Corp. updates its files with the new gross profit percent. Future orders will reflect the new price. If you are transmitting a consolidated purchase order, the price stickers from Do it Best Corp. will reflect the desired GP% from the highest store number.

   You can send only one, Retail or Desired GP%, so do not type Y in both fields.

9. Leave the Shipping Code, Ship Date, and Cancel Date fields blank.

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 Do it Best Corp.

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 Do it Best Corp. 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. In a few moments, the PO is transmitted to Do it Best Corp. Click here for information about verifying that the transmission was successful.

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.