WinMAGI update (latest build 8007 – 13 Jan 2014

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Record Locking Checking

The record locking routines have been improved to retry again after an initial record lock was found. This will help overcome those occasions where you may have received a ‘record in use’ type message to the screen.

Inventory Drawings

Inventory DarwingsBoth Sales Order Entry and Purchase Order Entry now allow the drawing diagrams of the item in the order detail line to be viewed directly from within order entry. This can be useful if your staff need to see and or describe the item as the order is being raised. A helpful, quick online picture enables them to see and describe what the item is.

 

Sales Order Entry

SOE Stock CheckA warning screen can now be displayed when entering in a new sales order line if there is expected to be insufficient stock available of the item at the required date.

The system will check the available stock of the entered item and will see what other orders are in the system (both demand and supply orders) and if the system determines that the available stock at the required date will be short, a warning message will be displayed. This option helps you to be proactive when scheduling orders and controlling stock.

 

Sales Order Template Orders

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Sales Order Template orders allow users to quickly and easily create new sales orders for customers using previously saved order details. A new ‘template’ order is created for a customer. This new template can contain a line for each item that the customer buys.  When the customer wishes to place a new order, the existing template order can be recalled and used as a ‘template’ from which the item codes for the new order can be selected. You simply specify the quantities against each item that you want to be saved to the new order. When the recalled order is saved, all the Items that do not have a quantity specified will be dropped from the new order leaving only those lines that have a quantity entered. And the saved lines on the new order will  reflect any pricing changes that may have occurred since the template order was originally created.

Template orders save you the hassle of re-entering in the item codes for the items in the order each time an order is raised for the customer. You just enter in the quantities for the items you want to order and let the system do the rest.

 

WinMAGI Data Archiving

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Customers that have being using WinMAGI for some time are now likely to have orders in the system that go back a number of years. To help improve the general performance of the system, it may be time to consider archiving some of these older orders. WinMAGI has a full suite of archive programs that allow us to selectively archive your transaction files. The benefits of archiving your data is that the lookups and enquiries will display the more relevant data, there will be a general improvement in the speed of the system and the overall size of the data files in the system will be reduced. Also, archiving doesn’t mean that the data is gone forever. Archived data can be re-instated if required. For further information about archiving your old data, please contact the Help Desk.

WinMAGI Data Archiving

WinMagi Shortcuts

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Many users already know about the Shortcut facility. The WinMAGI menu options can be setup into your own personal menu so that you no longer need to navigate through the system to find your most used menu options. To setup a shortcut, simply find the menu option in the system and right mouse click on that option. You will be prompted to add the selected menu option to your shortcuts menu. Once added to your shortcut menu, all you need to do is click on the Shortcut tab in your standard menu and your favourite menu options will be there. If you find that after a while your Shortcut tab is getting a bit busy, just right mouse click on the old entries in the Short Cut tab to remove them.

WinMAGI Shortcut

WinMAGI update (latest build 7999 – 2 Jan 2014)

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General Ledger

Ever entered a batch in GL and only realised that one of the account codes was incorrect AFTER the batch had been posted? Well fear no more. The latest build of WinMAGI allows you to amend the details of an already posted batch, provided the batch is for the current period. New parameter settings in GL control whether the batch can be modified once posted and whether the amendments to the batch are to flow back to AR and or AP if the batch being modified originated from AR or AP.

You can now also associate a bank account with a GL chart of accounts code. This is useful when processing manual journal batches in GL. When the batch is posted, the bank account specified against the account will automatically be setup in the Bank Account field within the batch.

Inventory Control

A new display field in the Inventory Information Centre shows the ‘Unallocated Open Demand’ quantity for the selected item. The demand may be made up of unallocated sales orders and unallocated component requirements in manufacturing orders. It is a quick and easy way to get a better overall view of the stock position of the item.

Inventory Control

WinMAGI update (Latest Build 7989 – 6 Dec 2013)

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  1. Inventory Info Centre now shows the stock demand quantity as well as the net available stock.
  2. Improved speed performance when re-indexing/re-building/purging tables.
  3. Ability to see whether the product will be available by the required date when entering a new sales order line.