Select Yes to enable supply chain procurement throughout Micronet, or select No if your company does not use supply chain procurement.

The main effect of turning this option on is that the Enter Invoice Line screen in Invoice Creation has separate tabs for general item details and procurement options. For more information, see "Entering Invoice Lines - Supply Chain (v2.8)".

When this option is turned off, the standard Enter Invoice Line screen is displayed during Invoice Creation – see "Entering Invoice Lines - Standard".

When a customer takes some items on an order but has others still to be ordered or delivered, Micronet can produce an invoice for the items taken and an order confirmation for the remaining items. If you select Yes in this field, Micronet will consolidate the two documents, producing one order confirmation that lists the items invoiced and taken as well as the items still on order.

Select No if you want invoices and order confirmations printed separately.

Select how you want freight to be treated when there is more than one invoice for a supply chain order (e.g. the original delivery then backorders):

• No – freight will be charged for every delivery related to the same order. The Freight charge will default on the Invoice Total screen for all invoices and will be charged unless it is manually cleared.
• Yes – freight will only be charged once. The Freight charge will be cleared from the Invoice Total screen once the first invoice is posted.
• Yes - Include Extra Charges – this is the same as the previous option except that it will also clear extra charges (like credit card surcharges and levies) from the Invoice Total screen once the first invoice is posted.

Select Yes if you want non-inventory / non-diminishing items invoiced immediately.

If you only want non-diminishing/ non-inventory items to be invoiced when other items are also to be supplied, select No. However, if an invoice contains only a non-diminishing or non-inventory item, it will be invoiced immediately.

Similar to the Remove Freight on First Invoice field, set this field to Yes if you want freight to be charged only once per supply chain invoice. However, this only applies where the freight code on an invoice is set to Fixed Dollar Amount – see "Freight - Main".

Select Yes if you want a message displayed on the Enter Invoice Line screen - General tab when the cost price of an item has risen since the last time a specific product was sold to a customer.

The message is only displayed if:

• the cost price of an item added to an invoice has changed on the Alternate Suppliers screen in the Inventory master file – see "File - Inventory - Supplier"
• a Start Date was entered on that screen
• the last date that the selected item was sold to the customer was before the Start Date entered.

Select Yes if you want users to be prompted to enter a specific tile shade when adding a FIFO item to an invoice that has serial number tracking enabled, and where the Procurement Option is set to either Purchase Order or automatic purchasing. This displays the Specify Shade Required screen where users can either enter a serial number or select a serial number from a list – see "Enter Invoice Line - Procurement (v2.8)". The serial number is then added as a text line to the supply chain order and the purchase order.

Select Yes if you want Micronet to calculate and display the Min Amount Required on the Order Payment screen when processing supply chain orders for debtors who are either Cash or Cash or Account – see "Processing Cash Payments - Supply Chain (v2.8)".

Note that this minimum deposit can still be overridden if the Can Override Deposit Amount field on the user's POS Security settings is set to Yes – see "Maintenance - Edit UserIDs - 6. POS Security".

Select whether your company allows wait/release orders where sales orders are entered into Micronet well before the customer actually needs the goods, and then released to the customer at the appropriate time. The options are:

• No – don't allow wait/release orders
• Yes – enable wait/release orders
• Yes - Release Date – this option is under development.

For more information, see "Wait/Release Orders".

Enter the ID of the warehouse that this procurement option applies to. You can press Tab or Enter to select a warehouse.

All procurement options must be entered against a warehouse. The procurement options you setup are displayed to staff in that warehouse when they are processing sales orders.

Enter a unique number for this procurement option. This determines the order in which Micronet will source items during sales order processing. The lowest number (e.g. 1) will be the first source of stock and, if unavailable, Micronet will keep going down the procurement options in priority order until it finds an appropriate source.

For example, stock on hand would normally be set to 1 as the highest priority procurement option. If there is not enough stock on hand of an item for a customer order, the next priority might be to request a stock transfer from a central distribution centre, then request a stock transfer from another branch, then send an automatic purchase order request to the supplier.

The procurement options and priority order can be completely tailored to meet your company's structure and requirements.

Enter a name for this procurement option. This name will be displayed to users as an option they can select when procuring an item in Invoice Creation.

Select the procurement type for this option. Options are:

• None – this option is only used when supply chain procurement is turned off
• Stock on Hand – supply the item from stock on hand
• Dead Stock Transfer – supply the item from any goods that have been marked as dead stock in the Stocked field on the Warehouse Details screen – see "File - Inventory - Purchasing"
• Pre Allocation – this option is not currently used
• Auto PO Request – include the item in the next automatic purchase order (see the Create Supply Chain Orders field on the Automatic Purchase Order Header screen – refer to "Automatic Purchase Order Header - Method Selection")
• Purchase Order – create a manual purchase order for the item
• Inter Branch  Transfer – transfer the required quantity of stock from another warehouse; the user can select a warehouse with stock while processing the sales order. Note that this creates a new transfer each time even if there is an existing transfer between the two branches.
• HO Branch Transfer – transfer the required quantity of stock from a head office. Note that if there is an existing stock transfer from the head office to the branch, any new transfers will be appended to it.
• Convert to Backorder – this option is not currently used
• Works Order – this relates to manufactured goods.

Enter the deposit required from the customer when this procurement option is selected.

Note that this can be overridden if a Minimum Deposit % is entered on the product category – see "File - Product Category - Category".

If you selected HO Branch Transfer in the previous field, enter the ID of the head office (or central distribution warehouse) for the warehouse this procurement option applies to. You can also press spacebar then Enter to select a warehouse.