Additional
Information:
The suite of programs that comprise Order Entry give you flexibility in entering, managing, and finally producing a final sale to a customer.
There are several formats for these front ends, and they are not only fully definable by the customer, but they also fall into four general categories:
Point-of-Sale: is a highly structured transaction - selling specific items from inventory culminating in payment (or in-house charge). Free-field sales are only possible if they are defined as sku's in the inventory.
Counter Sale: is also structured, but allows a sale to be recorded from a hand written sales slip. The sale is generally broken down into very general categories (such as materials and labor) but there is no direct linkage to an inventory. Tax exempt sales are possible but not recommended because of the bookkeeping requirements generally imposed by state collection authorities.
Invoice Sale: is entered as an order with line items that are either drawn from inventory (using sku or part numbers), entered as calculations when they are non-inventoried items, free-field text when descriptions are needed, and even can be reformatted in part or entirely as assemblies on the final document.
Quotations: are a special case of Invoice Sale, which allow you to prepare a pro-forma invoice without actually committing it to processing. Quotations can be copied, updated, edited, and converted into and Invoice Sale.
Work Orders: are similar to an Invoice Sale but they typically consist of one or more "Tiers" or work items on a schedule, against which are posted inventory items, labor, and other charges that eventually generate a charge to the customer in the form of an invoice. A Work Order can be either completely charged out and closed, or can be progressively invoiced to the customer until final completion.
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Billing: is the most general of all of the front ends, where the bulk of the document is free-field, almost text processing, and no inventory is being charged out as such.
Customized Processing: can be prepared to meet your special needs. The specialized module or modules can be added to the Format Table (described below) and they can be fully integrated with the AIMPAKS system.
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