PERPETUAL INVENTORY

The software maintains a count and keeps track of inventory transaction for items flagged as perpetual. Sales, returns, receipts, issues, and adjustments are tracked and accumulated. Periodically, the truck inventory is counted and reconciled with the inventory count.

Each item can be flagged as perpetual (or not), and the choice of the depth of coverage of perpetual inventory tracking is an implementation decision.

Reports are available to print entered inventory transactions on the truck's printer, and to print an analysis of status and movement for each perpetual item.

CUSTOMER SALES AND RETURNS

At the end of each customer delivery, the net sales and customer returns for perpetual items are posted. Quantity on-hand is updated, as is the accumulated counts for sales and returns.

WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS AND ISSUES

Receipts from the warehouse (or distribution center) can be posted two ways. The driver can manually enter the receipt, scanning items as they are loaded onto the truck. The driver can also download a loading list from the host system, automatically posting to inventory.

Inventory that is excess, damaged or otherwise unsalable can be issued to the warehouse (or distribution center) from the truck.

INTER-TRUCK TRANSFERS

Inventory can moved between trucks by posting complimentary transfer transactions into each truck's hand held computer.

DATA RECOVERY

A snapshot of the perpetual inventory is loaded onto the host system every time data is sent to it from the hand held computer, typically on a daily basis. This can be used to repopulate the truck's perpetual inventory as a critical component of a data recovery process.

PHYSICAL COUNT

Periodically, the truck inventory is counted and reconciled with the inventory count maintained by the software, and variances are posted as inventory transactions.

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