Maintain a history of pricing information by giving each price sheet a new effective date. When you receive new pricing information from a vendor, use the most recent price sheet, but change the effective date to the date you ran the latest update. This creates a new price sheet that maintains the old sheet's pricing information.
To create a price sheet in Auto Price Update:
Display the character based system.
Note: The Auto Price Update functionality has not been incorporated into Solar Eclipse as of this release.
From the System > Printers menu, select Your Hold Entries to display the Spooler Control screen.
Position the cursor on the name of the update file, and use the Process hot key to display the User Defined Upload Processing screen.
In the Processing Type field, enter Auto Product Price Updating and use the Begin hot key to display the User Defined Auto Price Updating screen.
In the Work ID field, enter the appropriate work ID for the update file.
Use the Scan hot key to display the Price Update Scan screen.
Use the Edit Last Eff Dt hot key to display the Eff Date screen.
Select New and press Enterto display the following fields on the Price Sheet Days screen.
ID - Displays the name of the new price sheet.
Purge Age (days) - Displays the number of days the data for the new sheet is saved.
In the Effective field, scroll to the first available space and enter the new price sheet effective date.
Press Esc to return to the Eff Date screen.
The new effective date is highlighted on the screen.
Press Enter to select the date and return to the Price Update Scan screen.
The last effective date and the new effective date display.
Note: To delete old price sheet formulas in the Eclipse Product File use the Rebuild Price Sheet/Discount Class Cache Utility. For example, if a vendor gives you disks with new price sheets and discount classes, run this utility to delete the old price sheets and discount classes in your Eclipse Product File.
Press Esc to return to the User Defined Auto Price Updating screen.
See Also:
Assigning Formulas to Price Sheets