Speeding Up Direct Store Deliveries
Tip
Recording the Purchase of a Wholesale Package
as a Multi-Pack Item
Vendor deliveries often come to the store in packaging not intended to be
rung up at the point of sale (POS). One example is a box of candy bars.
Vendor packaging of this type has its own bar code and while these wholesale
package sizes won't be rung up as such at the POS, you
may find that receiving deliveries goes faster if you use the hand-held
terminal (HHT) to scan in a wholesale package's bar code and input the quantity
of these packages. This simple procedure allows CDBWin to multiply the contents of the wholesale package
quantities into single quantities. The HHT software also works out the linking of the
single and the mutli-pack so the single gets created if it does not already
exist in your data base. Then it is ready to be recognized when the single
item is scanned at the POS.
With the case of candy, use the HHT's DSD program to scan the bar code on
the box of candy bars with a Pack Size value
which matches the number of bars in each box and a quantity received value of
how many boxes. If you scanned two 36-pack boxes of candy, CDBWin will
calculate 72 bars received into inventory.
If you don't want the wholesale bar coded items "clogging up" the POS, once the
items are transferred to CDBWin with the HDP application, select the Don't Send
to POS check box in the "Inventory Maintenance" window (on the
Setup menu, click Items (PLU/UPC/SKU)) and edit the wholesale item of choice.
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