Product Development Notes from June 2002 Meeting
By Justin Healey - SES
These notes should be read in conjunction with the presentation slides delivered by Justin at the June 2002 Meeting.
Product Hierarchies
Good analysis of stock levels, sales and purchases can reduce working capital and greatly improve profitability. This functionality provides enhanced product analysis. This is achieved by adding a further three product group codes (currently only three) with enhanced validation.
Includes changes to reports and new product hierarchy functionality.
Extended Discounts
Provide functionality to manage more complex discounts, including:
part/full discount, simple discount/amount, cumulative/threshold discount
Multiple discounts can be applied at line or order level.
Client Enhancements and Utilities
Extend the available utilities in order to improve the functionality and usability of the client.
Client invocation control system
Allows you to launch a program from your own application, e.g. an Intranet Portal.
XML interfaces
Functions to enable the sending and receiving of XML format business documents, with integration with Microsoft Biztalk Server 2000.
COP in Quotations and Scheduled Orders
Brings Quotations, Standard and Scheduled Orders in line with enhanced payment and Commercial paper functionality.
Accounts Receivable Multi-currency
To allow Accounts receivable invoices and commercial papers to be entered in any currency.
Serial number entry enhancement
Improve the speed and accuracy of entry of a large quantity of serial numbered items via Works Order Completion and Purchase Order receipts.
VAT on order acknowledgements
Produce VAT Box on sales order acknowledgements.
SuSe Linux
To extend the platforms and the choice to customers we have added two Linux platforms. IBM iSeries and Intel.