The following explains the changes to Epicor Eagle™ Inventory for Windows on level 25.1097.50 (Eagle for Windows level 12.1159.80). For additional information about a particular enhancement listed below, click on the blue underlined text associated with it. To return to this page, click the Back button.
(True Value Catalog users only) If you have an item displayed in Inventory Maintenance, and the "Discontinued" field on the Codes tab displays in blue underlined text, this means a substitute or referral is available in the True Value Catalog. Simply click the blue underlined text to access the substitute/referral item in the catalog. You can also access substitute/referral items via the Misc menu, option S "Catalog substitute or referral item."
If you use the Inventory Viewer to paste items into the Promotion File, a helpful message now displays, explaining what to do next: "Enter Promo Type and start/end dates using the Global Change option - then press Change to update file."
When adding items to the Promotion File, you can now preserve the value you enter in the price, percent off, or dollars off field, so you don’t have to re-enter it for subsequent items. This feature is useful if you’re adding a series of items that will all have the same promotion price. Simply click the new checkbox labeled "Preserve price/percent/dollars off." The value you entered in the corresponding field will automatically redisplay the next time you click the Add button.
A new column, "Order Entered," has been added to the Promotion grid so that you can do a right-click sort on this field to see the order in which the SKUs were entered. This is helpful if you are keying in a list of items but have to stop before you are finished. By sorting on "Order Entered," you’ll be able to tell where you left off.
There is now a drop-down list of shrinkage types from which you can select. You no longer have to type in a shrinkage type.
The inventory fields Department, Class, and Fineline have been added to the PIP viewer, giving you more filtering and sorting capabilities for items displayed in the grid.
The inventory fields Date Added, Discontinued Y/N, Average Cost, Date of Last Physical Inventory, Committed Quantity, and Quantity on Order have been added to the PIP viewer, giving you greater data analysis capabilities.
(Windows Labels users only) The icons in the Label Designer toolbar have been redesigned to be more standardized and user-friendly.
Some new features have been added to the Alternate Part Number report (RAP) for reporting on serial numbers (report type W, "Print Serial Number List"). There is now a From/To for "Date Sold (Serial #)." This means you can now add the report to a nightly queue to show the items with serial numbers sold each day. If you use option H ("only sold serial numbers"), the report prints the date each item was sold.
In the Promotion History Viewer, when looking up promotion history by Promo Name/Start Date, once you select a Promo Name, the start date is now automatically entered in the Start Date field, and the end date is automatically entered in the new End Date field. In other words, the Promo Name/Start Date lookup is now for items that have the same Promo Name, the same Start Date, and the same End Date. Prior to this change, the system looked for promotion items with the Promo Name, but with a start date greater than or equal to the promotion’s Start Date. This meant if you ran the same promotion each year using the same Promo Name, you’d see items from multiple years. With this change, you’ll only see items from the current year.
If you use the new cost or price of an existing price change to calculate/change a new cost or price (Change Type G from the Misc Menu Option 1 "Calculate Prices/Costs"), you can now select Gross Profit Percent to calculate the new cost or price. Before this change, you could only select Markup and/or Discount. If you use the Random Lengths application, this enhancement can be particularly useful. After using Random Lengths to load price changes with the new market cost, you can use Option G to calculate a new retail using the new market cost and the gross profit percent you specify.
The following Inventory options have been added to the Options Configuration window:
"Smart Inventory Item Lookup by SKU, UPC, Mfg Part #." Set this option to Yes if you want to be able to type the SKU, UPC, or Manufacture Part # in the SKU field in Inventory Maintenance and press Enter and the system will display the item. Because more than one item may have the same Manufacture Part # or UPC code, the first match will display; if it's not the item you’re looking for, simply use the Next and Previous buttons to find it.
"Adding an item to another store initializes the store specific fields". Set this option to Yes if you ALWAYS want store-specific fields such as quantities, dates, and location to be initialized (set to "blank") on the new store’s SKU when you display an item (on the Stocking or Load tab of Inventory Maintenance) and then add the item to another store. In contrast, when this option is set to N, how the item is added governs whether or not the store-specific fields are set to blank. For example, if you type the store number you are adding in both the "Store" and the "In Stores" fields, then store-specific fields are NOT set to blank - any quantities, dates, location on the screen at the time Add is pressed will be recorded for the new store(s’) item. If you enter the store you are adding in the "In Stores" field only, then the store-specific fields are set to blank.