What's
New on Release 16.2 What's
New on Release 16.2
Eagle for Windows release 16 supports running Windows Vista on new PCs that come with Windows Vista installed. The versions of Windows Vista that are supported include Vista Business, Home Premium and Ultimate. Vista Home Basic is not recommended.
Epicor does not recommend upgrading to Vista on existing PCs running Eagle for Windows for the following reasons: 1) Most of the Vista enhancements will have little or no benefit to Eagle customers, 2) many video and printer drivers are not yet certified under Vista and may not work with this operating system, and 3) additional RAM and other memory upgrades could be required to run Windows Vista; therefore, if it is installed without the necessary upgrades, you could see a negative impact on the performance of the system.
If for some reason you must upgrade an existing PC to Windows Vista, you must uninstall and reinstall Eagle for Windows. Click here for the procedure.
Windows Advanced Receiving – (Advanced Receiving users only) The Advanced Receiving application allows you to adjust purchase orders AFTER they have been finalized. Specifically, you can revise Quantity Received, Cost, Freight Charges, Other Charges, and Invoice Total. The primary benefits of Advanced Receiving are: improved updating of average cost, better tracking and reconciliation of A/P invoices to PO receipts, accurate cost of goods sold and inventory value, and the G/L inventory account more closely reflects the Inventory Valuation Report (RIV) cost value.
Add Special Order Items to Inventory from POS – You can now quickly and easily add special order items to your inventory without having to leave POS. The main benefits of this feature are:
Improved control of the non-stock ordering process
Inventory valuations will include non-stocks that have been received and not yet delivered to the customer (or were returned)
Better tracking of non-stock returns since they will be recorded to a specific SKU making it easier to recognize them as dead stock and get rid of them
Speedier checkout for non-stock items because you no longer have to access the Inventory File to load them
Tracking of sales history for non-stock items in case you decide to stock them
Daily Journal Viewer – The Daily Journal Viewer is very useful and versatile because you can use it look up many different types of transactions, all in one convenient place. In short, the Daily Journal Viewer can display any transaction to which the system assigns a journal number. This includes both POS and back office transactions, such as sales, orders, estimates, voids, paid outs, paid ins, "cash a check", deposits, received on account, transactions created in Open Item Maintenance (MOI), and more. To begin using the Daily Journal Viewer, set option 846 "Daily Journal Viewer enabled" to Yes in Options Configuration, and assign security bit 814 to users whom you wish to give access to the Daily Journal Viewer.
Delivery Confirmation – Delivery Confirmation allows you to obtain the customer's signature on a hand-held PC (PDA) when you deliver merchandise to your customers. Invoices/orders can be automatically downloaded from POS, and are then downloaded into the PDA. Besides obtaining the customer's signature on delivery transactions, the delivery person can also create notes, capture an image such as a picture of the receiving customer or of the delivery load itself, and edit quantities on the transaction. The signatures, images, and notes from the PDA are uploaded to the Eagle where they are stored in the Delivery Manifest. The signatures (as well as the images and notes) are linked to the transactions, and if you print statements with invoices, the remotely-captured signature prints on the appropriate invoice. For more information about purchasing Delivery Confirmation, contact Epicor Direct at 1-800-538-8597.
Contacts Tab in Vendor Maintenance – The new Contact tab allows you to enter a list of vendor contacts, including their Name, Phone, Cell, Fax, Pager, Email, Title, and Comment. This feature is controlled by the new security bit 819 "Ability to add/change/delete vendor contacts.
Flexible Inventory Loading (FIL) for Windows Enhancement – The fields PO Season Codes and Store Closeout are now available for selection in an FIL layout.
Delivery Dispatch System Integration – The Delivery Dispatch System (DDS) Integration feature manages the scheduling, tracking, and performance of deliveries, as well as gives you the ability to manage delivery truck maintenance schedules. DDS requires a separate PC Server running Windows 2003 Server or higher, as well as an SQL database. The DDS application supports the ability for the Eagle system to automatically send order data to the DDS, thus eliminating the need to manually enter this information into DDS. For more information about purchasing this feature, call Epicor Direct at 800-538-8597.
New Option 102 "Views-Limit to Lockin Store" – This option allows you to limit views (i.e. grid views and report views) to those used or intended for a particular store. When this option is set to Yes, it will show views named with a prefix of ’[Sx]’ where x equals the lock-in store, and views where no specific store is specified. When this option is set to No, all views are shown.
For example, assume the following report views exist for RSO:
STOCK ORDER
[S1] DAILY REPLENISH
[S1] WEEKLY ORDER
[S2] DAILY REPLENISH
[S2] WEEKLY ORDER
With this option set to Yes, and while locked into store 1, the following views will display.
STOCK ORDER
[S1] DAILY REPLENISH
[S1] WEEKLY ORDER
Modified Option 52 "Always enforce ordering multiple in Purchasing?" – This option has a new selection, P for Prompt. When set to P, if the order quantity is not a multiple of the order multiple (or standard package in the case of ordering from the Manufacturer), the system prompts to round up to the next order multiple, or to keep the quantity entered. Note: if ordering by the multiple is required based upon item setup, this rule will be enforced. This option applies when manually creating a P.O. in Purchasing and Receiving by posting items one at a time or when posting multiple items from the Inventory. It does not apply when importing a purchase order from the Unity LDT using Unity Handheld Interface on the Eagle Browser’s Utilities menu. In this situation, the quantity is raised to the next order multiple with no warning.
Note: if Option 52 "Always enforce ordering multiple in purchasing" is set to Prompt, and you enter PO2TR in the PO header’s Reference field, the system will NOT enforce ordering in the ordering multiple. You are still prompted to round to the ordering multiple, but you can select "No" to have the system post the quantity as entered. This feature is useful when using the PO to Transfer feature. Also note that the system will automatically place PO2TR in the Reference field if you are running a suggested order (RSO) to create a PO and you use Selection Option T (Store Closeout = "T" items only).