Departments, classes, and finelines allow you to group your inventory items into categories. Departments are the most general grouping, followed by classes and finelines.
You can create your own department coding scheme, use your primary vendor's department codes, or use a combination of both. If you are installing the system and are using a FastStart CD or tape to load inventory, the department codes may be included on the CD/tape and loaded from it.
Department sales and purchases are maintained in a grid. To learn more about working with views and grids, click here.
Click one of the following to take you to the procedure steps:
To make setting up departments easier, set up option 2004 "Store specific fields to copy to all stores when Change pressed in MDE" in Options Configuration. Place a checkmark by each of the fields in this list that you would like to keep the same for all stores in Department Maintenance (MDE) when <Change> is pressed (regardless of how security bit 12 is set).
When you press <Change> in MDE, the system copies the fields you have selected in this option to all stores.
Note:
The field Exclude from Points Calculation is only relevant when option 9061 is set to Yes.
The field Trip Point Multiplier is only relevant when options 9069 is set to Yes.
In the Dept box, type the department code. In the Dept Name box, type the department name.
For field help definitions, click here.
Multistore: Check the Store field. From the list, you can select a specific store or all stores (ALL). Select ALL to add the department to all the stores set up on your system.
(Optional) Enter the GP%, square feet, and linear feet.
Click Add.
In the Dept box, type the department code. Or, select the code from the list.
For field help definitions, click here.
Multistore: Check the Store field. From the list, you can only select a single store when modifying department information.
Enter the information in the fields you want to modify.
Click Change.
Note: you shouldn't delete a department that still has items assigned to it. Reassign the items to another department first.
In the Dept box, type the department code. Or, select the code from the list.
For field help definitions, click here.
Multistore: Check the Store field. From the list, you can select a specific store or all stores (ALL). Select ALL to delete the department in all the stores in which the department is set up.
Click Delete. Click Yes.