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Contracts
The sales contracts are entered and updated in Back
Office; Master Files; Contracts. For an overview, watch the contracts
demo viewlet.
Contract Finder
The contract finder screen is used to add a new contract or to select
a contract to edit. The screen is divided into two grids. In the top grid
appear all of the Companies that are designated as 'Sell To' in the customer
master file. These can include consumers and brokers. Either select a
company by scrolling or use the search feature. The bottom grid will display
the delivery or billing contracts for the selected customer. These two
grids can be further filtered to display all contracts or only open contracts.
Select a contract from the grid and press 'edit contract'
to edit, press 'new contract' to start a new
contract or press 'duplicate
contract' to create a new contract based on the one selecte.
Contract Maintenance
The contract maintenance screen has 8 tabs to monitor &
update all aspects of the contract. The contract tab contains all of the
basic information on the contract and the summary position information.
Notice that you can specify the unit of measure to display when monitoring
the contract status. This can be different from the pricing unit of measure.
Clicking on Ship To or Bill To will allow you to change the shipping and
billing customer. The invoicing can be based on the mill weights or the
ship weights.
Material
The material screen is used to enter the specific contract materials,
the weight sold and the price. The description can be changed to suit
the requirements of the customer.
Notes
Notes can be entered at any time, and are available to
be viewed at the scale.
Position
The running contract position of each material for viewing only.
Shipments
Shipments are created at the scale in the shipping
process. The completed shipments are selecte here to enter additional
information on the shipment details screen.
To produce an invoice, simply check of the shipments to be included on
the invoice and click 'Invoice Checked'.
Shipment Details
The entry screen for adding/editing shipment details such as delivery
date, mill ticket and mill weights.
Packing Lists
The Packing Lists tab allows adding, editing, printing,
deleting and viewing of the Packing Lists on this contract. The All
List tab displays the packing lists that have been created for
this contract. New packing lists can be created or existing lists can
be selected for viewing/editing/printing/deleting here.
When adding or editing a list, the details of the list will be displayed
on the Selected List tab. This is a summary
of the load for each material on the contract.
Individual units of inventory (packs)
can be added or removed from the packing list using either the Details
by Tag tab or the Details by Material
tab.
Invoices
The Invoices tab displays the invoices that have been created
for this contract. Invoice adjustments can be entered here.
