The Smart Way To Buy Scrap
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