Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Epicor Eagle Community & Hardlines Digest (With ROCK AP Report)


To All Masonry Depot Group (and Modern Hardware) Office / Management Personnel:
I would encourage you all to signup & join the following discussion / user groups:
Epicor Eagle Community
A resource for questions, answers and tips on all things Eagle.

To those of you that do Accounts Payable:As some addressees above do accounts payable, if included instructions from that user group on how to use report name ROCK. (See Below)

To Modern Hardware Office / Management Personnel:
As other addressees above work at out former smaller cousin, Modern in addition to the Epicor Eagle Community, I would encourage all Modern Hardware employees to subscribe to John Fix's user group (of Cornell True Value of Easchester):
Hardlines Digest.
In addition to computer questions, it is a forum with approximately 10 threads a day focused on pain and hardware stores - from hints, tips, how tos and how much -- to for sale, to buy, etc, etc.. Threads are automatically funneled to your email (and can be routed to a user defined "Hardlines" folder to keep your inbox less polluted.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

POS Procedures for Credit Returns



POS Procedures for Credit Returns

Please note: In addition to:
1. Billing lag times / Invoicing prior to shipment
2. Receiving lag times
3. Inaccurate counts
4. Supplier indecrepencies
5. Blown inter-store transfers
6. Theft
7. Human / clerical error
8. Items cut or converted to other sizes and not adjusted in the Eagle  (bluestone treads / angle irons)

One of the smaller contributing factors (number 9 on the list above) for inaccurate physical QOH counts stems from POS crediting options. Note the screen shots directly below:

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Dinner Commemorating Mike Calo's Departure from Masonry Depot in Yonkers


In case you haven't heard, it's the end of an era at the Yonkers. Mike Calo is moving on to a new career at Amtrak; going from filling yard bags, re-routing employees parked cars and checking customer's invoices to stowing carry-on bags, moving train cars and punching passenger's tickets.

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Epicor: Physical Inventory Procedures

How to Print Count Sheets and Update Physical Inventory Counts on the Epicor Eagle System


 Steps:
1. Lock-In to Correct Store
2. Load the Items to Count
2-A. Check Committed Quantity of Items to Count
2-B. Check Quantities on Order of Items to Count
2-C. Confirm No-Stock Items Have Zero Quantity
3. Print Out Physical Inventory Count Sheets
4-A. Manually Account for Unclosed Orders
4-B. Enter
Physical Inventory Sheet Counts
5. Check Entry Work
6. Update the Counts