Inventory Master
New vs Old
Dashboards or Gridview?
Purchase Like a Pro
100

This Inventory field represents a new floor for automated purchasing to consider when evaluating inventory Net. Often confused with Safety Stock.

What is "Reorder Point"

100
This is the color of the old Automated Purchasing program.

What is Grey? Gray?

100

This program is the beating heart of Global Shop, displaying all inventory information with a gridview of active order and commitments.

What is Supply and Demand?

100

This is the full name of the acronym: APOG

What is "Automated Purchase Order Generation."

200

This inventory field often represents a typical buy quantity or minimum order quantity for purchased parts.

What is "Order Quantity"

200

This button, available in new dashboards and gridviews, allows users to select more fields to be displayed in the APOG - New Gridview.

What is Column Chooser?

200

This new Dashboard is a great first place to start when evaluating past Purchase Order records, their dates, and receipt information.

What is Purchase Order History - New?

200

This option in Automated Purchase Order Generation - New allows for the program to consider potential future material demand not generated from a real SO or WO.

What is Include Forecast?

300

This formula represents the calculation of Inventory Net Quantity:

What is Net = (On hand + In Transit + On Order) - Requirements?

300

This icon represents problematic or missing critical data needed prior to generating a PO in APOG - New.

What is the Red X Icon?

300

This Purchasing Dashboard is a one-stop-shop environment, displaying all active orders, with the ability to view/edit/or receive active POs. 

What is the Open PO Dashboard?

300

This APOG Option changes how far out the system will look to evaluate inventory MRP levels. 

What is "Cut-Off Date"

400

This Inventory Master field can be used to mass update routers for future material price increases. 

What is "Alt Cost"

400

This option only exists in Automated Purchase Order Generation - New, effectively allowing for APOG to intuitively select a Vendor. 

What is the "Vendor Selection Hierarchy" 

400

This dashboard displays all purchasing information in regard to a specific vendor. This program also includes KPIs that evaluates on-time delivery and non-conformance.

What is the Vendor Relationship Management Dashboard?

400

This type of PO is the only type of Purchase Order you cannot cut from Automated Purchase Order Generation - New.

What is Outside Service PO?

500

Where can you find the company option to change the inventory master field from Vendor Sort to Vendor Name/Number?

What is Company Options (Advanced) > Inventory

"Select Values from Vendor File"

500

This button, is only available in the legacy Automated Purchase Order Generation, effectively saving all the premade filter selections for a user.

What is Create/Update User Profile?

500

This Purchasing dashboard only works if your company code is setup to run Standard Costing for Purchasing.

What Purchase Price Variance - New?

500

This Inventory Master value can potentially cause APOG + Cutoff Date to pick up material demand that may exist outside the cutoff date window.

What is "Lead Time"