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Back Office Inventory Features for Version 7
The velocity of new features being shipped in NeXT has really accelerated during the past 3 months. Most of the work has been centered on our Food and Beverage modules, but plenty of features for Retail have shipped as well. Version 7.26.47 was released on Sunday, November 6, 2011. The full scope of Version 7 of DataWorks’ NeXT Back Office Inventory system is massive, but here is the short list of enhancements and features that I wanted to highlight.
Product Form:
- New Wrapper to separately maintain Retail, Food and Supplies Products.
- New Menu to Review Archived Products
- New Lock / Unlock of Cost and Retail Controls
- Standardization of Product Attributes to enable control for Retail, Food, Supplies or Global access.
- Taxable Purchases setup for Supplies
- Catch Weight definition for Food
- Sysco 832 EDI order guide import
- Vendor Product EDI Linking / Unlinking capacity
- Vendor Product to Manufacturer product creation.
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Inventory Control Response Times – DataWorks 3 / 6 Design Axiom
Way back in 2006 we did a major re-factoring of our inventory control application – NeXT®. We took out stop watches and started charting all of our form’s behaviors. We focused on our Daily Maintenance and Transactional forms (read about those here).
DataWorks’ 3/6 Design Axiom:
- Any user action (click of a button, etc) that takes over 3 seconds to complete must be accompanied with a thermometer, hour glass or status message that indicates the system is still working.
- The goal of all forms is that they display usable information to the end user within 3 seconds of a menu click.
- The maximum allowed time that a form can take to display is 6 seconds.
- A form that takes over 6 seconds to display, must be redesigned with less data or fewer controls until it takes 6 or less seconds to load.