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Maintenance - Item Maintenance - Fifo Maintenance Utility

The FIFO maintenance utility allows you to maintain your FIFO records and serial numbers. First you scan your FIFO records to find any that have possible issues. You can then check each one, open the Edit Fifo screen to make changes and save those changes.

You can also use this utility to update all FIFO costs with item average costs or warehouse average costs (depending on which costs are being used).

Finally, you can move all identical serial numbers to a single FIFO record, and consolidate serial numbers with the same bin location for each FIFO record.

 

Technical Tip

This last feature is still under development.

To run the FIFO maintenance utility:

  1. Select MAINTENANCE | ITEM MAINTENANCE | FIFO MAINTENANCE UTILITY.

Micronet displays the FIFO Maintenance Utilities screen.

  1. Optionally, enter a Starting Item and Ending Item to scan.

You can leave these fields blank to scan all FIFO records.

  1. Select the Scan button.

Micronet displays all FIFO records within the selected range that may have issues.

  1. Double click on the first FIFO record in the list.

Micronet displays the Edit Fifo screen for that FIFO record.

  1. Make any adjustments required.

See "Inventory - Adjustments - Edit Fifo" for information on how to use this screen to maintain FIFO records.

  1. When you have finished, exit the Edit Fifo screen to return to the FIFO Maintenance Utilities screen.
  2. Repeat the steps above until you have checked each FIFO record in the list.
  3. You can view serial allocations for a FIFO record by selecting a record in the list then selecting ALLOCATIONS REPORT on the menu.

Micronet displays the Item Serial Allocations report showing any invoices that the item is allocated to including serial numbers and quantities.

  1. If you want to update all FIFO costs with item average costs or warehouse average costs (depending on which costs you use), select FILE | UPDATE COSTS on the menu.

Micronet prompts you to confirm that you want to update costs.

  1. Select Yes to continue.

Micronet overwrites the FIFO cost with the item average cost or warehouse average cost.