
Import, Preparation and Integration.
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Format for Supplier inventory import files:
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Modify your supplier spread sheet as follows:
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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.
C.
Save it with the supplier number you’ve assigned in YIW.
D.
The question marks display basic help about the purpose and flow of the
program.
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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Calc Orig Price: New Price: Calc %
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The status bar at the bottom of the page also displays this help.
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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Move the column and sort them:
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Sort Ascending by Manufacturer + Description + Item Number
i)
Filter on ‘TV’ will show you only items containing TV:
ii)
Filter those on ‘Samsung’ to work only with ‘Samsung TVs’
III.
Double click yPath to open up the ‘Path Builder’:
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Set a field to the same value for all items selected.
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Set the Description field to the imported description by choosing
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Calculate the PRICE from cost markup:
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First we’ll ‘dummy’ in the Retail Price since this supplier didn’t provide it.
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Set the Markup % to 200 and round it to .95.
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Then re-calculate our ‘Special’ price by resetting the Markup% and re-calculating.
VII.
Percent Mark Up/Down calculator.
VIII.
Find and replace (ctrl+H) values in a column.
IX.
Check for and fix potential DUPLICATE items.
5.
Update your newly ‘prepared’ items into YIW.
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Mark the items you want to import:
as a batch or one by one.
ii)
Your work is checked for ‘Critical Data Missing’.
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The columns preceded by an asterisk (*) are REQUIRED fields.
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The wizard will be watching.
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You can enter them from this screen:
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Only when the critical data fields have been entered will they post into your
YIW inventory.
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Only ACTIVE items are available for final export to Yahoo.
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Use the Reset option see what posted into YIW.
II.
You can see the results in the 'Upload To Yahoo' wizard:
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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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Clear
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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. |
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Import
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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. |
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Import File
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This will display the location of the supplier
products import file being imported. |
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Supplier Dropdown |
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. |
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Supplier Data
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Supplier |
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Inventory:
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Select the 'Inventory' G/L Account to post into
the selected records below when 'GL accounts' is check and you click 'Do It'. |
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Select the 'Sales' G/L Account to post into the
selected records below when 'GL accounts' is check and you click 'Do It'. |
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General Ledger Accts:
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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'. |
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Field |
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. |
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Names field selected above.
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Data to be posted into selected field for all records Picked. Use -1
for True, 0 for False. |
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Markup %:
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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. |
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Round to
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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. |
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% 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. |
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Select action.
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Select an option,
perform any necessary setup (like selecting the appropriate inventory items).
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Import Supl Invn from YIC
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Pull all YIC inventory for this (or All) Supplier
into this program for clean up and work. |
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Pick All or None
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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. |
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Reset selections
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Switches 'Pick All' to 'Pick None' for easier
selecting / deselecting of items. |
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Invert Pick
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Deselect selected items and select unselected items.
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Deselect
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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. |
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Set Import =Pick
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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'. |
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Markup cost
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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. |
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Markup Price
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Calculate price as old price times percent markup
entered. If checked
then round to value entered in 'Round to'. |
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Price->Retail |
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. |
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Retail->Price
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Post the value in the 'Retail' or nTemp column to
Price for import into YIC. |
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Price->Cost
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Post the value in the 'Price' or nTemp column to
'Cost' for import into YIC. |
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Price To
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You can Move or Calculate into the |
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MU Price-> nTmp
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You would use the nTemp column to avoid loosing
your original value. |
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Reset 'In YIC'
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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. |
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Categ<= ImpDesc
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Extract the 'Import Desc' from the records
selected below and post them into the Category Field of the same record. |
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C<=Path
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Extract the first Path segment from the records
selected below and post them into the Category Field of the same record. |
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S<=Path
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Extract the last Path segment from the records
selected below and post them into the Sub-Category Field of the same record. |
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Import Desc-> Description
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Extract the 'Import Desc' from the records
selected below and post them into the Category Field of the same record. |
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GL accounts
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Post the GL Accounts selected at the far left
into the records picked below. |
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Selected field |
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. |
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Export/ update to YIC
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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. |
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Ignore
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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. |
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Dups
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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. |
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Yahoo Export
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Open the 'Export For Upload To Yahoo' form. |
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Pick Count
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How many items below have PICK checked. These are
the items to which your selected action will be applied when you click 'Do
it'. |
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Imp Count |
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'. |
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Item Fields
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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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Limit (filter) the items you want by selecting something and clicking the ‘Filter by Selection’ button on the tool bar.


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Or, without the .95
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with
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Duplicates are deleted or modified to better describe you products. Item codes can be standardized.





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.

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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