Monday, November 1, 2010

EXPLORIS(n): overly complex yet lacking



My new definition of EXPLORIS --- overly COMPLEX yet lacking so many functions.

Have a look at this - what way do you have set up in our store? These images come from F8 Main Part Entry screen ... and deal with the differences between Price Field 6 Cost and Price Field 8 Cur Cost .... Bob Miller's (Walker Rd Auto - Windsor ON and one of the smartest users of Exploris I know ) system has PF#6 shown -- and this causes him to have to manually ADD the PF#8 data --so his end of day gross margins are calculated ( otherwise you make 100% GM )

Boy -- this PF6 and PF8 is confusing --especially if you want to run a report and LOOK for all parts where you are missing a PF6 &/or PF8. To the best of our knowledge the ONLY report that will show this is a 6 1 2 5 report ( had the menus been numbered like J-Con -- so the rest of us it is a Cust > Acct > Acct Pricing > Customer Pricing Sheet ... here you can add the PF#6 and the PF#8 data ( on bottom right of screen ) .... but ... wait ... too bad that T3 has BANNED us from exporting this data to Excel --- so scratch that idea for a way to 'dump the data' and look for part sku's missing data in PF#6 &/or PF#8 ....

Just want PF#8 --you can dump that data.... it is a scary list full of problems -- wonder what a list of missing PF#6 data would look like should I be able to get it ??

In summary -- if your store shows PF#6 in your Main Part Entry Screen(F8) --you want to call the help desk and get it changed for the CUR COST(pf#8) and you will save yourself a LOT OF TROUBLE .....just as Bob

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