Setting Up Physical Inventory Options

Use the Physical Inventory options to customize how the Physical Inventory (PI) application works on your system. For example, some of the options determine whether or not you want to activate the Shrinkage History File, which keeps a record of all incidents when shrinkage has occurred. You can specify which of the following types of shrinkage history you want to keep:

Setting Up Physical Inventory Constants

  1. From the Eagle Browser, type MPI in the Launch bar and press Enter. The Physical Inventory Constants display in Options Configuration.

  2. Fill in the Current Value field of each option, and then click Change.

Setting Up Other Physical Inventory Options

  1. From Options Configuration, set up option 9795 "Smart WinPIP item lookup by SKU, UPC, Mfg Part," and click Change.

  2. Option 1623 "PIP-Default view for the Inventory Viewer" – The View that will be used when the viewer is opened within PIP for creating lists.

  3. Option 1624 "PIP-Count Sheet Options to use in RPI when printing from PIP" – The default count sheet options that will always be set for Count Sheets printed from PIP.

  4. Option 1625 "PIP-Reconcile Options to use in RPI when printing from PIP" – The default Finalize Options that will always be set when finalizing from PIP.

Important Security Bits for Physical Inventory

  1. Set Security bit 1116 "Ability to add or delete items from a Count Sheet that is Locked" to Yes for anyone who would be allowed to add or delete items from a Locked List – the default is No.