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How to manage "Parent/Child" in MS POS

I buy bulk seed from a vendor and then divide it up into smaller volumes for sale which I create new item numbers for. The purchase orders show the bulk seed and are recived and PO's closed out. The problems are:

  1. In selling the smaller units, since they were not recieved from a PO, inventory on these is maual but they do not have a cost of goods associated.
  2. The bulk seed doesn't deplete in inventory automatically. I read about a parent/child function in RMS but have not found a similar function in POS. Does it exist? Is there a workaround?

I also want to use this in reverse: take 3 items ordered from different vendors and then combine them into a package for sale.

Any help very much appreciated. thx.

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Mr.J
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I would like to use the parent/child functionality described in RMS in POS. Is this possible. I have used sql and I am able to see that the fields are available in my POS items table. but not available at the POS interface. I would also like to use the sub category functionality. Again I can see this available in the item table of my POS system but it is not availalbe at the POS interface.

It looks to me like the RMS database and the POS database are infact the same, but the POS frontend limits access to certain fields. Is there an upgrade available to get access to some of these fields?

Ian

"Mr.J" wrote:

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Ian A

The MSPOS and RMS databases are indeed very similar. There a some differences, but I never bothered to compile a list. None of the advanced item types (Matrix, Assembly, Kit, Parent/Child) are implemented in MSPOS at this time. If you need that feature, you would have to switch to RMS. There is no official upgrade path, but Afshin from Retail Realm has posted here that they have a process to convert from MSPOS to RMS - I believe it involves their Import Utility, but I may be mistaken.

You may see either an upgrade path or additional item types for MSPOS in version 3.0 - due early 2008.

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> I would like to use the parent/child functionality described in RMS in POS.

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Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]

Thank you for the information Glenn, I am interested in the new fetures available in POS 2.0 which I have seen should be available in Jan 2007. Are the new features listed anywhere? Will 2.0 be free for existing 1.0 users or is there an update cost?

Ian

"Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]" wrote:

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Ian A

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