Posted on behalf of Digital Retail Solutions:
We got another complaint today (over 100 now on this particular issue) regarding the fact RMS does not include any Quantity on Hand filter for ANY Inventory Wizard Worksheets. This wastes countless hours (all year long) sifting thru items you don't even have in stock. Absolutely maddening to end-users. I have sent this suggestion to MBS numerous times. Ironically the fix to this is so simple it's dumbfounding why it hasn't crept into a hotfix during the last 2 years (after I first suggested it). I haven't seen 1.3 yet but I seriously doubt it made it into that. They would have said something I'm sure. In stock only filter:
1) Either add a checkbox to each wizard that allows you to check off "in-stock items" only before displaying the worksheet or remove them by checking this off on the worksheet. Or
2) Include a quantity on hand column in the worksheet itself so you could click on the column header and sort the zero items to the bottom. Put yourself in the retailers's shoes: Imagine trying to put any group of items on sale in RMS but not have the ability to focus on just the items in stock. Like I said --- maddening. Then --- after you do mark the items down using the wizard -- guess what else doesn't have a QOH filter? The Label Wizard! That means you can't print price labels for everything you just put on sale that are in stock. You really shouldn't have to buy an add-in for this and we shouldn't have to write one. ;-) As it is now you have to purchase RR's item change wizard and RITE's label utility. This stuff falls too close to basic functions to warrant $700+ ifor add-ins just to put some items on sale and print labels. We almost wouldn't mind writing this type of add-in (The Mardowns Controller for RMS), but the only way to sell something like this quickly is price it cheap (say $99) and sell a bunch of them. We can't do that because we have NO ABILITY to reach RMS end-users outside of our own. Catch-22. You can't write cheap, fast turnaround add-ins because you can't reach the end users (all of them). For this to work you would need MBS to send mailers to all end-users or make the mailing list available to resellers
-- and that ain't gonna happen either. Catch-22.
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