Creating Steel Stud Products

Product Dimension Maintenance provides the tools to help you maintain steel studs and their various dimensions as well as the corresponding prices. You select an effective date and then enter how you are pricing the stud. You can price by foot, inch or eighth of an inch. Example

Begin by creating or selecting a non-stock product to which you are defining a steel stud product. Use Product Dimension Maintenance to create base stud products for each available size. At order entry users enter the base product and the system prompts users to select the stud, enter the length needed. Then, the system creates a new non-stock product for the stud product size entered. If you have a new order and enter the same sized stud, the system reuses the non-stock created. The system uses the base product and the effective date for the pricing calculation. The system compares the effective date to the price date of the sales order to determine the price.

To create a steel stud product:

From the Maintenance menu, select Productto display the Product Maintenance window.
In the Product field, enter a nonstock product ID.
From the Additional Data menu, select Product Dimension Maintenance.

Note: The system only prompts users at the time of creation of the dimensioned product. After a product has been identified as a filter, damper, or stud product the system automatically displays the appropriate maintenance window.

Select Stud Product to display the Stud Product Maintenance window.
In the Price Sheet field, select the price sheet you want to apply to this steel stud product.

When new products are created from Sales Order Entry using this steel stud product, the system references the price sheet entered in this field to retrieve pricing information to apply to the order.

At the Effective Dates prompt, select an effective date on which you want the price sheet to be used for steel stud products. The displayed effective dates are based on the selected price sheet. Select New to create a new price sheet.
In the Per Unit field, select how you want to divide the price or cost for the steel stud product, such as inch or foot.
In the Pricing/Costing area, select how to set the cost or price for the steel studs in your warehouse, such as 1.50. This value is used in conjunction with the Per Unit field.

For example, if you sell your steel studs for $1.50 per foot. Select Foot in the Per Unit field, and enter 1.50 in the Price field.

Save your changes and exit the windows.