Release 4.32
1) New Add daily special product feature - This enhancement makes it very easy for a buyer to order any product from a different supplier.
2) New Line extension over-ride feature - This enhancement provides the buyer with the ability to change the product Line extension unit on demand. The buyer can decide to look at product weight extended or total pallets for a product, on screen K3S_1030 Product Summary, instead of the traditional dollars extended.
3) New Display totals by split code feature - This enhancement provides the buyer an easy way to look at suggested order totals by split code (temporary or permanent) BEFORE performing an order split. This enables the buyer to simulate different combinations of products to build full truck orders.
4) New message to appear when - This order failed to reach supplier bracket. Previously the system did not provide any feedback to the buyer in screen K3S_1020 Orders – Supplier Detail, so it appeared that the allocation program was not working properly. Now the buyer will know if un- realistic supplier brackets are being attempted.
5) New instant add for products - This enhancement makes it possible to have a customer’s item maintenance program to instantaneously add a new product to K3S-Replenish®. This eliminates having to wait for a K3S night job to bring in new products.
6) New capability to automatically relieve Hold out records - When Hold out records have been created from the K3S_1050 Orders – Supplier Approval screen, then a link can be established from purchase order receipts to automatically relieve the Hold out quantities.
7) New type of Selective Product Review Batch added to help manage seasonal profiles - The buyers can now create batches with the new type Z10 Profile has small factor to search for prohave incorrect seasonal profiles assigned.
8) Enhanced F5=Refresh in Selected Products Review - After a buyer has created (F6=Add) a new batch and pressed F22=Submit job, he returns to the K3S_3080 Select Product Review Batches screen. Pressing the F5=Refresh key will automatically change the Status (Sts) value from ‘P’ Pending to ‘O’ Open.
9) New Records Processed Summary screen for diverter offerings - For K3S customers that use the Alternate Source System (diverter buying), this program provides an audit trail for the percent of records rejected from their weekly offerings.
10) New capabilities using the Supplier Variable Order Cycle feature - This section of the K3S system has been enhanced to provide the buyer with the tools to better manage environments where Order Cycles, Lead Times and Sales Distributions can vary by the day of the week.
11) New Products Weekly Distribution capability - When the buyers choose to use the new Weekly Distribution feature in the Supplier Variable Order Cycle section, they can also optionally provide daily usage and safety stock percentages by day of the week all the way down to the product level.
12) New Results from Weekly Distribution screen - If a buyer is using the new Weekly Distribution feature in the Supplier Variable Order Cycle section, then a new F20=Results option will appear in the K3S_3025 SOQ Simulation screen. Taking that option provides the buyer with a day by day view of how the Order up to quantity is calculated.
14) New capability to edit the Buy Multiple Over-ride value - Customers will now have the option to have entries for Buy Multiple Over-ride edited for validity.
15) New capability to dynamically pick up deal information from customer’s deal files - For customers who feed the K3S deal system from their own deal files, they will no longer require a K3S night job to pick up new or changed deal information. By simply pressing the F21=Recalculate key on the K3S_1020 Orders – Supplier Detail screen, the enhanced process will ‘find’ any new deals (or changed deals) that are available.
16) More flexibility managing Forward Buy Maximum Days - Currently the Forward Buy Maximum Days is controlled at the warehouse location level only, which means that one value is being used for all products at a location. In this release we have activated the use of both the Supplier field and the Product field for Forward Buy Maximum Days. This provides control all the way down to the Product level.
17) New capability to automatically change ‘N’ New products to ‘S’ Slow products - For some customers in specific environments it is not necessary that they go out to the K3S_3030 Product History screen to ‘start up’ a product. Normally you would need to go out to the Product History screen to have the System Status changed from ‘N’ to ‘S’. This new feature allows a company to have all ‘N’ New products automatically changed to ‘S’ Slow products when they are added during the K3S night job. This provides any ‘back orders’ for new products to immediately be picked up for replenishment.
18) New capability to control if a product’s average should be allowed to become zero - There are some customer environments where they do not want a product’s average to ever fall down to zero, regardless of the number of periods where there has been no demand. This feature will allow a company to control that process.
