The following explains the changes to Epicor Eagle™ Catalog 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.
Telecommunications procedures are now located in the new online help book "Vendor-Specific Procedures." Formerly, there was a separate book for each vendor in the main list on the Contents tab of online help. Now, simply click on the Vendor-Specific Procedures book from the Contents tab, and within that book you’ll find a book for each vendor.
The following enhancements have been made to the EDI application, now known as iNet Vendor Direct. The most significant change is that it’s easier than ever to add vendors and use the service. INet Vendor Direct allows you to send purchase orders, as well as receive ERP, from over 300 vendors. Additionally, you can receive electronic price changes and electronic file maintenance (EFM) from selected vendors. For more information about purchasing iNet Vendor Direct, call iNET Product Information at 800-538-8597.
If you have an internet connection, you can now send POs and receive ERP over the internet (via FTP) with over 300 vendors including National, Hillman, Larson, Forney, Wrangler and Carhart. However, EDI still supports Async and Bisync dial-up connections if you do not have an Internet connection.
When using EDI to receive electronic invoices (ERP) from suppliers/vendors, you can now reprocess ERP documents locally without having to contact the vendor. For example, if you forgot to create the PO Header before processing ERP, you can create the PO header and simply reprocess the ERP document locally.
There is now a web site to track, view, and restore EDI documents.
The purchase order transmission process can be executed for multiple vendors at a time, and can be queued via EPO. For example, the transmission could be placed in an end-of-day queue to run automatically, or queued for more frequent transmissions.
Now you can simply maintain a single EDI Site ID Code in the option "Site identification code sent with EDI transmissions" in Options Configuration.
A single control stream now supports multiple vendors across multiple stores. In other words, you no longer have to maintain a separate control stream for each supplier/vendor with whom you do EDI.
You can now transmit POs to more than one vendor at a time in the Purchase Order Transmission Screen, because that screen no longer requires you to enter a Vendor Code. You can also specify up to eight specific POs you want to transmit. These POs can be either in addition to, or instead of, specifying a range of POs.
If you assign codes to your POs when creating them, you can now use those codes to specify which POs to include or exclude from a transmission. On the PO Transmission Screen, in the new field "PO Header Codes," simply enter the code to include or exclude.
You can now download electronic price changes and electronic file maintenance (EFM) from specialty distributors.
Transmit/Receive via Internet or Satellite
You can now transmit information to and from Do it Best Corp. via FTP (file transport protocol) communication, which works with either an internet connection or a Do it Best Satellite connection. To begin using FTP communication, follow the instructions in the Do it Best Corp. FTP Communications Conversion Guide" available at www.activant.com. The instructions will explain how to:
Verify your software level
Contact Do it Best Corp. so that EDI Services Support can provide you with setup information (such as your user id and password) and configure your data for FTP communications
Set up the FTP control streams with your store’s information
Begin using FTP communications
ERP Resequence Target P.O.
Do it Best Corp. members now have the option to resequence their PO in Invoice/Line # Order during ERP. The system will sort the target purchase order in the same sequence as the Do it Best invoice, making merchandise check-in easier. To begin using this feature, you must first contact Do it Best Corp. at 260-748-5565 and request that your "order confirmation switch" be set to either Adjusted Item Sequence or Adjusted Invoice Sequence. Also, you must request the "optional 2nd Order Confirmation record containing the UPC code."
ERP Add Items’ UPCs
ERP now automatically adds to your system the UPCs of items on the invoice. To take advantage of this new feature, you must first contact Do it Best Corp. and tell them you want the "optional 2nd Order Confirmation record containing the UPC code." This is the same request as the one required for the PO Resequence feature (see above); therefore, if you are already set up to receive the optional 2nd Order Confirmation record, you’re already set up to use this feature.
The True Value Market Download Viewer in the Purchasing and Receiving window now has the ability to view just C4P items, or just Relay items. This enhancement will be very helpful because C4P and Relay items have to be ordered on separate POs.
New items will always be added to the stores specified on the EFM screen if you set the new Option "Ace EFM - add items to all specified stores" in Options Configuration to Yes. Before this option was available, if a new item already existed in another store, it would not be added to the stores specified on the EFM screen.
If you want electronic price change transmissions to update any already-existing price change records with the electronically-received price, set the new option "Electronic price changes - Update pre-existing price change records" to Yes in Options Configuration.