Supplier Inventory

Import, Preparation and Integration.

 


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Table of contents:

1. Summary: 4

2. Select  from the . 4

3. Supplier Inventory Screen. 5

A. Format for Supplier inventory import files: 5

B. Modify your supplier spread sheet as follows: 5

I. When you’re done, your importable file will look like this: 6

II. If your supplier gives you a ‘SuplrStock’ QUANTITY, all the better. It goes in the same column. 6

C. Save it with the supplier number you’ve assigned in YIW. 6

I. You will browse to this file when you click the  button (top left corner of ‘Supplier Inventory screen). 6

II. Any items that are already in YIW will be updated with your permanent data when they are imported. 6

D. The question marks display basic help about the purpose and flow of the program. 6

E. Objects on the screen explain their purpose when the mouse is held over them for a few seconds. 7

I. The ‘Help’ column below shows the ‘Popup’ / Status Bar text displayed for each item. 7

Clear 7

Import 7

Import File. 7

Supplier Dropdown. 7

Supplier Data. 7

Inventory: 7

Sales. 7

General Ledger Accts: 7

Field. 8

Names field selected above. 8

Markup %: 8

Round  to. 8

% Calc   Orig Price: New Price:  Calc %.. 8

Select action.Do It 8

Import Supl Invn from YIC.. 9

Pick All or None. 9

Reset selections. 9

Invert Pick. 9

DeSelect 9

Set Import =Pick. 9

Markup cost 9

Markup Price. 9

Price->Retail 10

Retail->Price. 10

Price->Cost 10

PriceTo. 10

MU Price-> nTmp  nTmp-> Cost 10

Reset 'In YIC' 10

Categ<= ImpDesc. 10

C<=Path. 11

S<=Path. 11

Import Desc-> Description. 11

GL accounts. 11

Selected field. 11

Export/ update to YIC.. 11

Ignore  Rules. 11

Dups. 11

Yahoo Export 11

Pick Count 11

Imp Count 11

Item Fields. 12

F. The status bar at the bottom of the page also displays this help. 13

4. Reorganize the items for easier handling. 13

A. The screen below can be re-organized to get a better grouping on these products. 13

I. Move the column and sort them: 13

i) Sort Ascending by Manufacturer + Description + Item Number 13

II. Filter by selection: 14

i) Filter on ‘TV’ will show you only items containing TV: 14

ii) Filter those on ‘Samsung’ to work only with ‘Samsung TVs’ 14

III. Double click yPath to open up the ‘Path Builder’: 15

IV. Set a field to the same value for all items selected. 15

(1) If you didn’t want to set the ‘13 INCH COLOR VIDEO GAME TV’(GXE1395) to Televisions you could simply ‘UnPick’ it before clicking ‘Do It’. 15

V. Set the Description field to the imported description by choosing  and clicking ........ 16

VI. Calculate the PRICE from cost markup: 16

(1) First we’ll ‘dummy’ in the Retail Price since this supplier didn’t provide it. 16

(2) Set the Markup % to 200 and round it to .95. 16

(3) Then move  or  or . 16

(4) Then re-calculate our ‘Special’ price by resetting the Markup% and re-calculating. 16

VII. Percent Mark Up/Down calculator. 17

VIII. Find and replace (ctrl+H) values in a column. 17

IX. Check for and fix potential DUPLICATE items. 17

5. Update your newly ‘prepared’ items into YIW. 18

A. When everything is ready: 18

I. Mark the items you want to import:  as a batch or one by one. 18

i) Select the . 18

ii) Your work is checked for ‘Critical Data Missing’. 18

(1) The columns preceded by an asterisk (*) are REQUIRED fields. 18

(2) You can  ignore the rules. 18

(3) The wizard will be watching. 19

(4) You can enter them from this screen: 19

(5) Only when the critical data fields have been entered will they post into your YIW inventory. 20

(6) Only ACTIVE items are available for final export to Yahoo. 20

(7) Use the Reset option see what posted into YIW. 20

II. You can see the results in the 'Upload To Yahoo' wizard: 21

i) They are marked for upload, have met all of your ‘export requirements’, and have been exported to the temporary export table for final examination and fine tuning. 21

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1. Summary:

1)       When your suppliers provide their inventory to you in an importable file you can set it up, import it and then ‘clean it up’ in preparation for merging it into your Yahoo Inventory Wizard (YIW) inventory. The Yahoo Internet Commerce (YIC)-IW Supplier Inventory form is a powerful tool for quickly and consistently sorting, filtering, filling in required YIC-IW and Yahoo fields.

2)       You can also import one or all supplier inventory from your YIC main inventory for cleanup.

3)       Import your new supplier items and associate them with their supplier.

4)       Organize these items into manageable groups.

5)       Fill in the missing critical information.

6)       Update the desired items into YIC-IW.

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2. Select  from the .

 

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3. Supplier Inventory Screen

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A. Format for Supplier inventory import files:

B. Modify your supplier spread sheet as follows:

I. When you’re done, your importable file will look like this:

II. If your supplier gives you a ‘SuplrStock’ QUANTITY, all the better. It goes in the same column.

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C. Save it with the supplier number you’ve assigned in YIW.

I. You will browse to this file when you click the  button (top left corner of ‘Supplier Inventory screen).

II. Any items that are already in YIW will be updated with your permanent data when they are imported.

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D. The question marks display basic help about the purpose and flow of the program.

 

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E. Objects on the screen explain their purpose when the mouse is held over them for a few seconds.

I. The ‘Help’ column below shows the ‘Popup’ / Status Bar text displayed for each item.

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Help

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Clear

Clear all records from the tblSupplierInventory table. WARNING: Only the records for the Supplier selected below are visible in the list below BUT ALL RECORDS FOR ALL SUPPLIERS WILL BE CLEARED.

 

Import

Click here to browse to your supplier product tables. You must name them by their supplier code. EG 069.csv for Power Sales. The file you select will be imported and displayed below.

 

Import File

This will display the location of the supplier products import file being imported.

 

Supplier Dropdown

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Pick a supplier (*=All) from Supplier table. Only products from this supplier will be visible in the list below. There may be multiple supplier products in tblSupplierInventory at the same time but only the selected supplier's products will be visible.

 

Supplier Data

Supplier

 

Inventory:

Select the 'Inventory' G/L Account to post into the selected records below when 'GL accounts' is check and you click 'Do It'.

 

 

Sales:

Select the 'Sales' G/L Account to post into the selected records below when 'GL accounts' is check and you click 'Do It'.

 

General Ledger Accts:

Select the 'Cost of Goods' G/L Account to post into the selected records below when 'GL accounts' is check and you click 'Do It'.

 

Field

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Pick a field and fill in the data below. When you click 'Do It' this value will be posted to all of the records you've selected below.

 

Names field selected above.

Data to be posted into selected field for all records Picked. Use -1 for True, 0 for False.

 

Markup %:

Enter greater than 100 for markup. Enter less than 100 for discounts. Select 'Price Calc' at the right and click 'Do it'. All selected items will be updated.

 

Round  to

If checked all newly calculated prices will be rounded up or down to the nearest dollar and then reduced to the amount you enter here.. If this is more than 25c below the unrounded markup $1.00 is added.

 

% Calc


Orig Price
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New Price:

Calc %

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MarkUp % Calculator: Decide whether you want to increase or decrease your price, click Up or Down and fill in your original and new price. When you click 'Calc %' it will be filled in above.
'Enter the current / original price.
Enter the new price, the price you want to get to. The idea is that you can calculate these prices manually, fill them in and the whole group will have their prices changed accordingly.
Calculate and fill in the 'Markup %' field above based on the % Up/Down variance between the above 'Orig Price' and 'New Price'. You can then use this to recalculate prices for all of this group of items.

 

Select action.

Do It

Select an option, perform any necessary setup (like selecting the appropriate inventory items).

Clicking Do It below will perform the action selected. EG. If you've selected 'Import/update to YIC', all items that have BOTH 'Pick' and 'Import' column checkboxes checked will be updated / appended into your master WSA inventory.

 

Import Supl Invn from YIC

Pull all YIC inventory for this (or All) Supplier into this program for clean up and work.

 

Pick All or None

Pick All or None. Use this with the 'filter by selection' to limit the records and then select them. You can then modify groups of items for Price, GL, or any field in the 'Field' list.

 

Reset selections

Switches 'Pick All' to 'Pick None' for easier selecting / deselecting of items.

 

Invert Pick

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Deselect selected items and select unselected items.

 

 

 

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Deselect

De-selects the items picked below AFTER updating them. This saves time and confusion when you're updating multiple groups of items with data unique to that group. For example, to post Manufacturer you would filter down to items with a specific Manufacturer, PICK only those items and post the manufacturer AUTOMATICALLY UNPICKING THESE ITEMS. You'd then proceed on to the next group, PICK only those and post the Mfg.

 

Set Import =Pick

Set the 'Import into YIC' checkbox equal to the 'Pick' Checkbox as these 'Pick' items are what I want to import into YIC. Only items with 'Import' checked will be posted to YIC when you check 'Export/Update to YIC'.

 

Markup cost

Calculate price as cost times percent markup entered. If checked then round to value entered in 'Round to'. Post this to either Price or nTemp based on 'Price to:' selection.

 

Markup Price

Calculate price as old price times percent markup entered. If  checked then round to value entered in 'Round to'.

 

 Price->Retail

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Post the value in the 'Price' or nTemp column to 'Retail' for import into YIC. With these three options you can calculate and replace any of your price fields. For example, if your supplier has provided you with Retail or Cost you can move Retail to Price, use 'Markup Price' option to Mark it down by 20% (put 80 in 'Markup %') and round to .95.

 

 Retail->Price

Post the value in the 'Retail' or nTemp column to Price for import into YIC.

 

 Price->Cost

Post the value in the 'Price' or nTemp column to 'Cost' for import into YIC.
If, for example, your YIC inventory is missing your supplier cost but you know you set up your 'Sale Price' based on 20% markup, you can mark down Price and move it to Cost. Using the Markup calculator you'd put your current price of $11.99 ($10 cost marked up 20% and rounded to .99). You'd then put your known supplier cost of $10 in New Price and, after checking UP click Calc%. Your Markup % will displayed as 83.40284 which you can use to calculate cost from sale price under these circumstances.

 

Price To

You can Move or Calculate into the NORMAL column or to the TEMP column. As you select either Normal or Temp the labels for the price options change accordingly.

 

MU Price-> nTmp

nTmp-> Cost

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You would use the nTemp column to avoid loosing your original value.
EG Calculate
Sale Price into TEMP.
Mark it down using 83.4.
Then MOVE this value to your COST column.

 

Reset 'In YIC'

Check each item and mark whether it is in the YIC Inventory. When you import items from a supplier file many of them may already be in your YIC inventory. If you import from YIC then all of them will be in YIC.

 

Categ<= ImpDesc

Extract the 'Import Desc' from the records selected below and post them into the Category Field of the same record.

 

C<=Path

Extract the first Path segment from the records selected below and post them into the Category Field of the same record.

 

S<=Path

Extract the last Path segment from the records selected below and post them into the Sub-Category Field of the same record.

 

Import Desc-> Description

Extract the 'Import Desc' from the records selected below and post them into the Category Field of the same record.

 

GL accounts

Post the GL Accounts selected at the far left into the records picked below.

 

Selected field

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Post data entered in the big box at left  into the field displayed in the 'Field' dropdown list above it into  that field in all selected records below. The 'Label' of the big box changes as you select the field from the Dropdown list.

 

Export/ update to YIC

Verify that Description, Retail, GL, Path, Weight aren't empty for items with the IMPORT checked below. Add new items to YIC and Update changes made to existing items.

 

Ignore
Rules

Disregard required *columns and export data to YIC main inventory tables even though not all required columns contain data. NOTE: You will be warned and allowed to over-ride.

 

Dups

Show a list of Inventory Items where the Description/Name is identical on 2 or more products. Choose and populate important fields for one and delete the others.

 

Yahoo Export

Open the 'Export For Upload To Yahoo' form.

 

Pick Count

How many items below have PICK checked. These are the items to which your selected action will be applied when you click 'Do it'.

 

 

Imp Count

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How many items below have IMPORT checked. These are the only items that will be imported into YIC when you select 'Export/Update to YIC' and click 'Do It'.

 

Item Fields

Columns with Asterisks are REQUIRED.   You can open the inventory form or the 'Path Builder' form by double clicking an item in those columns.

 

 


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4. Reorganize the items for easier handling

A. The screen below can be re-organized to get a better grouping on these products.

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I. Move the column and sort them:

i) Sort Ascending by Manufacturer + Description + Item Number

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II. Filter by selection:

Limit (filter) the items you want by selecting something and clicking the ‘Filter by Selection’ button on the tool bar.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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i) Filter on ‘TV’ will show you only items containing TV:

 

 

 

 

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ii) Filter those on ‘Samsung’ to work only with ‘Samsung TVs’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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III. Double click yPath to open up the ‘Path Builder’:

Text Box: Copy Televisions to the Category field. Click ‘Pick All’ to select all of this suppliers items that are ‘Samsung TV’s. 
Next, we’ll set the CATEGORY for all of these to the same ‘Televisions’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IV. Set a field to the same value for all items selected.

Text Box: 1)      Select the ‘Category’ field. 
2)      Paste the value for ‘Category’.
3)      In the Action options click ‘Selected Field’.
4)      Click ‘Do It’
 
All items selected are set to ‘Televisions’.

 

 

(1) If you didn’t want to set the ‘13 INCH COLOR VIDEO GAME TV’(GXE1395) to Televisions you could simply ‘UnPick’ it before clicking ‘Do It’.

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V. Set the Description field to the imported description by choosing  and clicking

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VI. Calculate the PRICE from cost markup:

(1) First we’ll ‘dummy’ in the Retail Price since this supplier didn’t provide it.
(2) Set the Markup % to 200 and round it to .95.

(3) Then move  or  or .

 

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(4) Then re-calculate our ‘Special’ price by resetting the Markup% and re-calculating.

  Or, without the .95 :

                          

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VII. Percent Mark Up/Down calculator.

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VIII. Find and replace (ctrl+H) values in a column.

 with  Or  

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IX. Check for and fix potential DUPLICATE items.

Duplicates are deleted or modified to better describe you products. Item codes can be standardized.

 

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5. Update your newly ‘prepared’ items into YIW.

A. When everything is ready:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I. Mark the items you want to import:  as a batch or one by one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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i) Select the .

ii) Your work is checked for ‘Critical Data Missing’.

(1) The columns preceded by an asterisk (*) are REQUIRED fields.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(2) You can  ignore the rules.

Unless you choose to  you will be required to have data in all of these columns for every item you are exporting.

Perhaps you don’t know the weights yet and enter them later.

 

If you choose to  you will be shown the items violating the rules and allowed to ignore them by answering  when prompted.

 

 

 

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(3) The wizard will be watching.

If you just accidentally missed entering known data you can return to the form and enter it knowing that the wizard will be watching.

 

In this case you need to get some sort of weight entered for these items.

 

 

 

 

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(4) You can enter them from this screen:

(5) Only when the critical data fields have been entered will they post into your YIW inventory.
(6) Only ACTIVE items are available for final export to Yahoo.

 

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(7) Use the Reset option see what posted into YIW.

  

 

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II. You can see the results in the 'Upload To Yahoo' wizard:

 

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i) They are marked for upload, have met all of your ‘export requirements’, and have been exported to the temporary export table for final examination and fine tuning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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