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[Ebbets.com]

Hi Everyone,
We are a just in time manufacturer, that allow our customers to personalize there product from mild to wild. We had someone write a backend program to pull our backorders out that would print order date customer name MOM product number and any special notes that go with that order. This hack just died and we don't remeber who wrote it so we need to change how we are doing this. We have never used the PO part of MOM but I'm hoping this will help streamline our system. We are currently running version 5.4 but have just purchased version 7 (not installed yet) How would you all reccomend we do this in MOM? Ideally we could create a kit where it the shirt could be one supplier, the trim another, and lettering a third. Any advise on the best way to go about this?

[dseibold]

Hi Everyone,
We are a just in time manufacturer, that allow our customers to personalize there product from mild to wild. We had someone write a backend program to pull our backorders out that would print order date customer name MOM product number and any special notes that go with that order. This hack just died and we don't remeber who wrote it so we need to change how we are doing this. We have never used the PO part of MOM but I'm hoping this will help streamline our system. We are currently running version 5.4 but have just purchased version 7 (not installed yet) How would you all reccomend we do this in MOM? Ideally we could create a kit where it the shirt could be one supplier, the trim another, and lettering a third. Any advise on the best way to go about this?

First, your backend program will not be able to be replaced when you convert to MOM 7 because the data files can only be read by MOM (and a few select programmers out there who charge for their services). That's why many of us never upgraded to MOM 6. The only other choice is to upgrade to MOM XL if you want access to your data.

So what do you do? Let's take one example, the lettering... you can do the following for each aspect of your order.

Set up a vendor for the lettering.
Then make the lettering vendor the supplier for the lettering item and mark it as a drop ship item.
When you sell the lettering item, a PO will be generated for that sale and will give the lettering person an order number and name of customer. The lettering person can then look up the details in MOM or you can develop another system that works better for you.
When the lettering is complete, your receiver can receive the PO and MOM will mark the item as ready to ship.
When everyone has finished their work on the shirt and each of their PO's have been received, you can ship the shirt.

At any time, you can print a report from MOM that gives you the status of all your PO's.
MOM 7 should also have a new report builder that will allow you to create that report the way you want to see it.

Hope that helps

[planetdj]

And for what it is worth, upgrading to MOM 7i XL (for SQL) was the best investment I could have ever made in our business. All data is now readily accessible for data manipulation, web export or reporting.

And the built-in Report Builder in MOM is way better and easier than both Crystal Reports or Report Writer. I use the SQL Management Studio for many queries and data manipulation as well.

[Ebbets.com]

And for what it is worth, upgrading to MOM 7i XL (for SQL) was the best investment I could have ever made in our business. All data is now readily accessible for data manipulation, web export or reporting.

And the built-in Report Builder in MOM is way better and easier than both Crystal Reports or Report Writer. I use the SQL Management Studio for many queries and data manipulation as well.

Thanks Everyone, We did purchase the upgrade to 7. Unfortunutly we had a problem last week and the fix wiped out our Foxpro report we were using so looks like we will need to see get the upgrade installed and see if the report writer will work or if we need to go customer with SQL. Thanks Again! KC