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DE-B Import Inventory

Purpose of Programs

Use this program menu to import inventory items from another system or from an ASCII file developed outside of the system.  While designed to be used at system startup, this program can be used on an ongoing basis if lists of new items are periodically received from customers or developed by Engineering in a CAD system.

General Program Operation

See Importing Master Files for general import instructions.  The inventory import has 5 required fields besides the Item Number itself.  They are Class, Type, Stock U/M, Price U/M and Purch U/M and are preselected on the Import Header Creation screen.  All other fields are optional.  Detailed descriptions of most listed fields are given in IN-B  Enter Inventory.  In addition to the above listed fields being required, the Class and Type fields are validated against the values entered in SM-C  Enter Item Classes and the acceptable list of Types in IN-B  Enter Inventory, Vendor codes are validated against previously entered vendors in AP-A  Enter Vendors, and the Customer code is validated against customers entered in AR-A  Enter Customers.