What's the future of RMS?

Th problem is that when you TAB you say that you want the margin to be

50.017% and when you press TAB then the Price is adjusted to the 3 decimal % magin and you will find a .02 being added.

In actual fact the Price methodology should be based either on:

1- Enter price and Cost and calculate Margin OR 2- Enter cost and margin and calculate Price

Now if you use security to disable Read and Disable Change the margin field becomes unaccessable by the TAB and this means that the Price is never recalculated.

Other work around is to forget about this bug and when you finish entering all your prices RUN a Price wizard and control the Retail Pricing that way you end up with .00; 0.025; .050; 0.75; 0.99

I guess this is more a logic inconsistency than a BUG. For some customers just eneter cost and margin and let the system calculate the price for them.

Afshin Alikhani

Hi All, Anyone got clues in this department? I am busy rolling out RMS into a large franchise operation in Australia with an HQ setup.

There are lots of software bugs that need to be fixed and this seems not to be addressed. For example Try adding an item price of $2999.00 and a cost say of $1499.00. Then tab to the profit field and watch what happens to the price! For me it changes and this is a bug - which is not being fixed and I subscribe to the (expensive) maintenance plan.

Regards

Dan Levin

It does it for me too. It changes the price from 2999.00 to 2999.02 reflecting a 50.17% markup. I noticed it only did it when I tabbed to the next field.

Hey Dan,

Welcome to RMS and not being in the USA.

Try creating a parent and a child and see if the cost of the item comes down to the child item at a ratio....

Apart from a few things that make it a show stopper for me is isnt a bad product....

I also enjoy my Atari 2600

Ivan Brebner

Hi Everyone, Thanks for the warm reception. Just to set it straight, I have been on this newsgroup for quite some time now. I have already rolled out 8 stores in Victoria, Australia using RMS over the past eight months. There will be at least 30 over the next few years. RMS is good, but my opinion is that is it old and has a lot of work to be done on it to bring it to the standard of XP type software. Being a DB developer by trade, just take a look at the back end. No referential integrity like cascading updates/deletes/ PK's etc... All this logic seems to be in RMS where (I believe) it is misplaced. It does not lend itself to using sql to make light work of what can be very time consuming issues. (Import 10 thousand records+)! Generally I don't whinge (AUS for complain) - RMS does go an adequate job

What's cool though is that I will develop SQL server reporting services to use the RMS tables to draw far more productive reporting than what is provided, like on demand pivot tables into excel for sales across stores for items in specific time periods, etc...

So still anyone with clues on what development is scheduled, taking place to bring RMS from 1990 look and feel to 2006 look and feel (and functionality)

Regards Dan

Hey Dan,

I am rolling out 20 locations this month and have a pretty good OLAP cube on the way to beig finished that provides great reports to Sharepoint.

I am also happy to share other issues and workarounds.....

Regards,

Ivan Brebner snipped-for-privacy@premiumretail.com.au