Below is a list of tips and tricks for the Maintain Inventory course. Click one of the items below to see information that may be helpful to you as you take the course.
To be able to use barcodes, font 3of9 must be installed on every computer.
In the Single Level Periodic WA Update exercise, please note that you must establish a starting point for the periodic weighted average (WA) calculations no later than the day before you perform this exercise. A workaround that enables you to complete the exercise in the same day is to perform the first two steps using a time-zone offset of minus 24 hours, change this offset to zero, and then complete the exercise.
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain data integrity. Your site should be linked to company 10. The objective should be that you should never process data in sites 1 or 2 as these are the reference or teacher sites.
If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that each student's data be isolated in a unique site. The site you create should be linked to company 10.
If you have not created your own site in the current course database, see the general exercise for Site for instructions.
If you are an instructor, additional information is available about the Racing database, which is the database used by all IFS Training Materials.
The Racing database contains different data layers, including the following two layers that form the foundation of the database:
To see more information about the Racing database, including a link to documentation for the RTUBE data layer, see Racing Database in IFS Training Help.