Change to worksheet 501 (full item count)

Sep 19, 2006 2 Replies

Currently, worksheet 501 (Request a Full Item Count) grabs the quantity from every item in your store. Our apparel stores have literally tens of thousands of SKUs, with thousands more added every six months. When I try to get the full item count, it times out. Also, not all stores carry all products, but the worksheet does not pay attention to the Inactive flag, so it tries to retreive quantities for those items as well.



All of my items are subdivided by department, category, and some other custom criteria (product season, color group, fabric). Our store managers do not do a full physical inventory; they do partial inventories of a certain department, category, garment season, etc. Those are the items which I want to upload when the physical inventory is complete.



I would like an item filter added, similar to the filter which is on just about every other item-related worksheet. That would give me a smaller set of data being passed over the wire, and would encourage frequenet updates of HQ quantities from the individual stores.



Bill Yater The Worth Collection snipped-for-privacy@worthltd.com


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Jeff,

Thanks for the tip. That's more or less what I wanted to do. I just wanted to make sure that the snapshot quantities in the ItemDynamic table were correct before I ran the 190 worksheet (Full Item Count Reconciliation). A simple SQL query took care of that (cheating, I know, but when MS doesn't provide, we do for ourselves).

On the topic of the Reconciliation wizard/worksheet, that's another worksheet which could benefit from the Department/Category filter. When I ran it without restricting it to items with quantity discrepancies, I got my whole item catalog, all 78000 items. Rerunning it and checking the "Show only items with quantity discrepancies" gave me a much smaller list.

Bill Yater

"Jeff" wrote:

are picked up automatically. Just run a 190.

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