Posting Dead Stock Products to Trading Partner Connect

If you have items in your warehouse that are not selling, called dead stock, you can post your dead stock items to the Trading Partner Connect website where other distributors can purchase them from you instead of the manufacturer. The system uses the customer record you selected when setting up Trading Partner Connect to determine the pricing parameters for any dead stock items that you post to the web site.

Run the Inventory On Hand With No Sales Reportand use the TPCx Dead Stock Upload Maintenance Queue to determine what products in your inventory are considered dead stock and to upload that information to the Trading Partner Connect website. When you run the report with the Trading Partner Connect options selected, the system populates the TPCx Dead Stock Queue.

Note: After you successfully post your dead stock products, the view only TPCx Dead Stock check box is selected in the Product Miscellaneous Information window in Product Maintenance (from Product Maintenance, select Additional Data > Miscellaneous Data).

From the Reports > End of Month Reports menu, select Inventory On Hand With No Sales to display the Inventory On Hand with No Sales Report window.
Complete the fields to run the general report.
Select the Include TPCx Dead Stock Criteria check box and complete the following fields:

Field	Description
TPCx Item Types	Select whether to include items that you have added to the Trading Partner Connect website, to run the report for items that you have not added to the web site, or both. The default is Rationalized.
TPCx Stock type	Select whether to include stock that has already been flagged as dead stock and loaded to the Trading Partner Connect website, to run the report for only those items, or both. The default is Exclude Already Dead.

Set options, if needed, and generate the report.

The system populates the TPCx Dead Stock Upload Maintenance Queue.

From the Purchase > Queues menu, select TPCx Dead Stock to display the TPCx Dead Stock Upload Maintenance window.

The window displays the items that are considered dead stock in your inventory, including the last sale date, how many you have in inventory, and the unit and extended unit value of the items.

To view statistics about when the Inventory On Hand With No Sales Report was last run to populate the TPCx Dead Stock Upload Maintenance Queue, click the Report Settings tab.

Select the Send field next to items that you want to post as dead stock to the Trading Partner Connect website.
From the File menu, select Upload to TPCx to send the dead stock products to the web site.

From the Reprts > End of Month Reports menu, select Inventory On Hand With No Sales to display the Inventory On Hand with No Sales Report screen.
Complete the fields to run the general report.
Use the TPCx Options hot key to display the TPCX Dead Stock Criteria screen and complete the following fields:

Field	Description
Include TPCx Dead Stock Criteria	Enter Y to run the report including the Trading Partner Connect products that you set in the other fields. Running the report with this option selected populates the TPCx Dead Stock Queue. The default is N.
TPCx Item Types	Select whether to include items that you have added to the Trading Partner Connect website, to run the report for items that you have not added to the web site, or both. The default is Rationalized.
TPCx Stock type	Select whether to include stock that has already been flagged as dead stock and loaded to the Trading Partner Connect website, to run the report for only those items, or both. The default is No.

Set options, if needed, and generate the report.

The system populates the TPCx Dead Stock Queue.

From the Purchase > Queues menu, select TPCx Dead Stock to display the TPCx Dead Stock Upload Maintenance screen.

The screen displays the items that are considered dead stock in your inventory, including the last sale date, how many you have in inventory, and the unit and extended unit value of the items.

Select the Send field next to items that you want to post as dead stock to the Trading Partner Connect website.
Use the Upload to TPCx hot key to send the dead stock products to the web site.