Handling Delivery Reminders—Exercises

IMPORTANT
If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. 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 your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Create Supplier

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up a supplier from whom you can purchase goods and services.

Windows:
Supplier

  1. Enter the supplier XX1000. In the Name field, enter Dunlop.

General exercise for Entering Supplier

Create Purchase Part, Inventory-registered

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the purchase part by entering it as an inventory part. The purchase part is automatically created when entering the inventory part.

Windows:
Inventory Part
Supplier for Purchase Part

  1. Enter an inventory kept purchase part with the part number XX55-100 and the description Racing Wheels.
  2. Connect the purchase part to the supplier.

General exercise for Entering Inventory Part
General exercise for Entering Supplier for Purchase Part

Required Data

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to enter the required data that is used in the exercises below.

Modify Supplier

Windows:
Supplier

  1. Open the Purchase/Misc Supplier Info tab.
  2. Select the Print Delivery Reminder check box.
  3. Enter five days between the reminders and 60 days before arrival.

General exercise for Entering Supplier

Enter Purchase Order

Windows:
Purchase Order

  1. Enter a purchase orders with a part order line. The delivery date should be within 60 days.
  2. Release the purchase order.

General exercise for Entering Purchase Order

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to understand how a delivery reminder is created.

Windows:
Purchase Order
Purchase Order Delivery Reminders

Create a Delivery Reminder

  1. Open the purchase order and study the Delivery Reminder, Last Del Rem and No of Del Rem columns.
  2. Create the delivery reminder in the Purchase Order Delivery Reminders window and print it. You can preview it before printing.
  3. Go back to the purchase order and study the Delivery Reminder, Last Del Rem and No of Del Rem columns again. What has happened?