RSYNCH to Synchronize Prices after COPYRECS

(Price Synchronization users only)

When using COPYRECS to copy SKUs from one store to another, items are copied to the designated store, but none of the prices or costs copy over. This happens because COPYRECS looks at option 118 "Keep Prices the Same in All Stores" to decide whether or not to copy prices/costs, and option 118 is, by definition, is set to No if you use Price Synchronization. Therefore, in order to copy prices and costs after running COPYRECS, you must run a special utility called RSYNCH. However, keep in mind that RSYNCH will only copy costs/prices for items that are set up to synchronize costs and/or prices (the Synchronize Prices" and/or "Synchronize Costs" fields in Inventory Maintenance are set to Y).

For example, say you have a group of 100 items that are in five of your stores. Of these 100 items, 25 of them have costs and prices that are different in each store, thus the Synchronize Prices? and Synchronize Costs? fields in Inventory Maintenance are set to N  (or they are set to O, and options 3081 "Default for WinIMU 'Synchronize Prices' flag" and 3082 "Default for WinIMU 'Synchronize Costs' flag" are set to N). The other 75 items have the same cost and price in all stores, thus the Synchronize Prices? and Synchronize Costs? fields are set to Y (or they are set to O, and options 3081 "Default for WinIMU 'Synchronize Prices' flag" and 3082 "Default for WinIMU 'Synchronize Costs' flag" are set to Y). You use COPYRECS to copy the 100 items from store 1 to your new store 6, but as mentioned above, the prices and costs are not copied to the new store 6 during COPYRECS. You then run RSYNCH, entering 1 in the "Synch to Store" field so that the prices and costs for the 100 items in store 1 will update the items in the new store. As a result, 75 of the items copied into store 6 will have prices and costs that match the store 1 prices and costs, because the Synchronize Prices and Costs flags were set to Y for those 75 items. The remaining 25 items copied into store 6 will not have any prices or costs because those items are not set to synchronize costs or prices. Therefore, you must manually enter prices/costs for these 25 items.

NOTE: An item can be set up so that Costs synchronize but not Prices, and vice versa, depending on how the Synchronize Costs and Synchronize Prices fields are set up in Inventory Maintenance.

Running RSYNCH after COPYRECS

  1. From Network Access at the Function prompt, type RSYNCH and press Enter. The Synch Prices Report screen displays.

  1. In the Synch to Store field, enter the store you want all other stores to synchronize to. For example, to synch prices to the values in store 1, enter 1 in this field.

Note that if an item doesn't exist in the store you enter in the Synch to Store field, that item is skipped over (costs/prices are unaffected) in any stores in which the item does exist. Additionally, as mentioned earlier, RSYNCH only affects items in other stores that have the "Synchronize Prices" and/or "Synchronize Costs" fields set to Y in Inventory Maintenance.

Be VERY careful when entering the store value in the Synch to Store field. Using the example above, if you just ran COPYRECS because you have a new store 6, you should NOT enter 6 in the Synch to Store field! If you did, the 75 items that are set up to synchronize prices and costs across all stores would have their prices and costs wiped out in all stores. This would happen because entering a 6 tells the system to synchronize the prices and costs FROM store 6 (the new store that doesn’t have any prices or costs) TO all the other stores. The only way you could restore the prices and costs back into all the other stores would be to either manually reenter them, or restore from a backup.