Important: Always run a backup before using this application! A backup is your only recourse to restore items you delete while using the SHRINK application.
Use SHRINK to delete a range of items from your inventory file. As a general rule, don't delete items that have sales history until after running year-end reports. If you delete an item prior to year-end, the sales history information reported by other inventory reports (such as RIV, RIS, RSH, RPH, RIH, and RPA) will be inaccurate.
Important: What appears on your audit/test Shrink Report is what will be deleted when you run SHRINK with option F to finalize.
The SHRINK program does not delete items unless you select option F. You should first print and review an audit report to verify that you want to delete all the items that appear on the audit/test report. If you find items on the audit report that you do not want to delete, you can prevent those items from being deleted by changing inventory field values that cause items to be ineligible for deletion. For example, resetting the discontinued flag to No if running SHRINK with option D – Discontinued Items Only. Also, using any of the user code fields in Inventory Maintenance with Exclude = Y in the from/to code selection. After you have changed the necessary items, you can select option F.
Run a SHRINK audit report so you can review items before deleting them. If there are some items on the audit report you don't want to delete, you can protect them from deletion. Or, you can decide to not proceed with SHRINK at all if you don't like the results on the audit report.
From the Eagle Browser Reports > Inventory Reports menu, select Reduce Item File Records (SHRINK) to display the Shrink the Inventory File Report window.
From the 
page, review the default entries in the fields and make changes if
needed. For a definition of each field, click here.
In the left pane, click 
to display the fields.
Select an appropriate option (except F). For example, select option D if your goal is to delete discontinued items from your inventory.
For more information about these options, click here.
In the left pane, click 
to display the fields. Complete the fields, as needed, to specify
the range of items you want to delete.
(Optional)
In the left pane, click 
and enter the desired User Code.
Note: Expanded User Codes are not eligible.
Use the corresponding Exclude? field next to the items with User Codes to indicate which fields you want to exclude from the deletion. For example, if you want to delete SKUs with a User Code of "Z" in the 3rd position, type a Z in the 3rd box, and leave the "N" in the third "Exclude?" box.
(Optional)
In the left pane, click 
to display the fields and complete the fields to fax the report to
another user. For a definition of
each field, click here.
Click Run. When the report has finished printing, carefully review it before proceeding.
If in reviewing the audit list you discover items you don't want to delete, render them ineligible for deletion by doing one of the following in Inventory Maintenance:
If you are using option D to delete only discontinued items, change the Discontinued flag to N on the items you don't want to delete.
Note: Discontinued items with Quantity On Hand (QOH) will be deleted.
If you are using option M to delete only items with M in the Special Record field, remove the M on the items you don't want to delete.
If you are using option X to delete all items with a blank Seasonal Sales Code, enter a Seasonal Sales Code on the items you don't want to delete.
If you are not using option D, M, or X, enter a value in one of the following fields on the items you do not want to delete:
Seasonal Sales Code
Quantity on Hand
Quantity on Order
Future Order
To Date Sales
Order Point
Re-run SHRINK, but this time include option F in addition to any other option you selected on the audit report. For example, if you selected option X on the audit report, you'd now select options X and F.