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  • Cannot Create Container

    We are trying to implement License Plate Numbers and containers to perform LPN Stock Change transactions to perform mass movement of goods internally. I am unable to create a container due to the error in the image. Looking at online guides, it appears…
  • Allow Trade Discount

    Is there a utility that will allow me to check the "Allow Trade Discount" box for a range of inventory items?
  • Bill of Materials - Parent & Component Serial Numbers

    The Bill of Material allows a parent item with components. Is there a way to create a serial number for the Parent Item and then assign serial numbers for the components? Thanks!
  • Non-inventory purchase orders

    How do you handle purchase orders for non-inventory items. Two examples - 1) the office heater is broken, we call repair shop to fix it - PO needs to be created to match up with billing invoice,do you just use a comment field? But do you still have to…
  • Trolley Build Function Sage

    I am wondering if anyone out here has had any experience with the trolley build features with Datalinx? We are thinking of exploring "picking to slot", "Trolley Build", "picking to Carton" functions in our warehouse. Would love to pick someone's brain…
  • Building an Inventory Item

    Is anyone able to walk me through the building of an inventory item from start to finish? I'm confused on how to use the program for this... I have a single product, we have multiple things that went into creating this product. I want to be able to track…
  • Unit Cost in Stock Issues for Inventory

    When entering stock issues the unit cost always pulls the average cost and as a result we have to manually update the unit cost to our most recent stock receipt cost. Is there a way to have the unit cost when entering stock issues automatically pull the…
  • Nice if 'PAC complete' could be on a line by line rule basis - believe would be much more versatile allocation and issue setup

    'Pac complete' as an overall function does not allow smaller units to break into larger units when needed for picking. Those smaller units need to be made manually available (or already available). Our orders need to be shipped in cases and pallets. Pallets…
  • Using/Understanding FIFO

    It seems that X3 defaults to some form of FIFO. Is there any documentation that goes into detail how to control this feature? A specific example of what we are trying to do that relates to full pallet product pulling. We have X3 set up to pull full…
  • Inventory with serial numbers

    We have a finished good that is serialized, however we will now be selling this item with an additional component that we would like deducted from inventory automatically. We had considered changing the serialized item into a 'kit', however that would…
  • Can't Add New Product Codes in Item Maintenance

    When we enter a new item code into "Item Maintenance," it used to create a new product in the system. However now when we enter a new product code, everything goes blank, but it says "NEW" right by the Description (as it would do before). Everything else…
  • Packaging Consumption in Work Orders

    I'm looking for ideas as to the best way to consume packaging in work orders. We sell products in various packaging....totes, drums, pails, etc. Currently the packaging is relieved from inventory at time of sales invoicing.....packaging codes are…
  • Change Default for Inventory Valuation

    Does anyone know how to change the valuation default in Item Maintenance from Standard to Lot? Trying to prevent incorrect entries when setting up a new inventory item. Thanks for your help!
  • Help me to better understand the RMA process

    This may come down to being internally defined, but I am looking for examples of how you handle your RMA's as far as tracking in the Sage 500 system. By design, we originally had a Service Warehouse where all RMA's were receiveing into the default bin…
  • Sequentially numbering Inventory Items - Pros and Cons

    I have a client that is exploring the idea of converting their inventory numbers (most are vendor numbers) to be generic numbers that will be sequential. They are a service company that has 16 years of Sage data. Some parts are drop shipped to their customers…
  • Where can I find cross reference by program information?

    In the pre-business framework days, this information was available in the resources link. I need to know which files are used by the Inventory Trial Balance report.
  • Total newb needs help with setting up inventory and accounts

    Hi, I'm trying to setup Sage 50 and I'm becoming more and more confused! I do use Sage at my day job for entering payables and receivables, so I'm familiar with a lot of the program, but not familiar how to set it up to use for my side business making…
  • Direct Labor Costs Built into Bill of Materials for Items Sold as a Kit (always explode)

    We have a packaging company with a large variety of items which are packed to order. As we don’t prepack, virtually all our sales are through kits with the option selected to “always explode”. We do have a bill of materials (BOM) for each kit as items…