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| Overview In the Scrap Dragon software, Inventory are items that you sell and Commodities are items that you buy from your customers. It is necessary to setup up your inventory first, because each commodity item that you buy must be linked to an inventory item that you sell. For example, the commodity 'car' might be linked to the inventory item 'Shredded Steel'. More than one commodityitem could be be linked to a single inventory item. Setting up the Commodities From the Master Files Menu. Select Commodities; Commodities Master. You will need to set up a commodity item for each item that you buy. You can also set up 'dummy' commodities that will be used to create buttons on your scale screens that do not trigger the purchase of a commodity. These commodites can be set up now for use in the Button Maker to trigger a call to another menu page or to serve as a label to identify a part of the screen. This screen has two tabs, Buy Commodity Itmes will display a list of all commodities in the file, and Commodity Item Setup will display the information on the selected commodity. To modify an existing commodity, use either the Buy Commodity Items tab or the First, Prev, Next and Last buttons to find the commodity to edit. To add a new commodity, click the Add button. The system requires the following: A Commodity Code. This can be any combination of numbers and/or letters you choose The print desc is the printed description which will appear on any printed matter (receipts, reports etc.) A scale price and unit of measure. This price is the default scale price for automatic pricing. Customers can be assigned to pricing groups which will allow them to get a different automatic price than the default price you enter here. Also, the automatic price can be changed at the time of purchase. The default price can also be used as a base price for formula pricing. The unit of measure abbreviations are as follows: LB - Pounds CW - Hundredweight GT - Gross Tons (2240 lbs) ST - Short Tons (2000 lbs) NT - Net Tons (2000 lbs) KG - Kilograms MT - Metric Tons EA - Each XX - Dummy - used for navigation buttons Inventory ID. This links the commodity to an inventory item. For proper inventory tracking, each commodity you buy should be linked to an inventory item that you sell. A shrinkage percentage. The quantity you buy of an item, less the shrinkage percentage will give you the amount of inventory you will have to sell after processing. This number is 100 minus the recovery percentage. Ferrous Non/ferr. Choose from the drop down box, but usually F for Ferrous, N for Nonferrous, or O for Other. Profit Margin % over selling price is not required or used at this time. Common Reporting allows you to group the commodity for reporting purposes. The groups are defined in User Definable Tables. Special Reporting is for the setup of specific State requirements. Default Button Setup. This is the button which will appear on the touch screen for the scale operator. You may setup button defaults to be used whenever this commodity is assigned to a button on the scrap purchasing screen. Often, the screen description will have to be abbreviated to fit on a button. By clicking on Back Color - you can choose a color from the palette for the background of the button. You may also choose a text color and size. The buttons work best with a font size of between 14 and 20. Press the Save button when you are done. You may edit the information for any commodity by clicking in the field you wish to edit, changing the information and then saving the changes. Back to Setup Checklist Forward to setting up groups