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Project	Includes
Activity Based Costing	Activity-based costing setup, logging, calculation, and maintenance information.
Accounting Setup	Terms maintenance, tax, duty and exchange rates, ship via, and Zip Code maintenance.
Accounts Payable	A/P entry, inquiry, ledger, checks, and reports.
Application Maintenance	User maintenance, terminal setup, printer system, custom menus, user-defined functions, order entry views maintenance, customer/vendor standard notes.
Accounts Receivable	A/R entry, cash receipts, collections management, statements, utilities, and reports.
Authorization Keys	Complete descriptions of all authorization keys for the following areas: Companion Products A/P, A/R, G/L, and Exchange Rates File Maintenance Phantoms, Reports, and System Maintenance Inventory, Purchasing, and Procurement Order Entry Sales Analysis
Business Connect XML	Sending and receiving transactions via XML.
Business-to-Business Commerce	B2B Commerce between you and other Eclipse users.
Carton Packing	Complete instructions for packing cartons in your warehouse either through manually wedge scanning or RF interfacing.
Check Authorization	Check authorization setup and authorization process.
Credit Card Authorization	Credit card setup, authorization, and payments.
Control Maintenance Records	Complete descriptions of all control maintenance records.
Document Imaging	Setup, management, replication, and reports for images.
Document Indexer	Setup, indexing and attaching images, indexing barcodes, and scanning tips.
Eclipse Forms	Create, design, and troubleshoot documents that are unique to your business. See the Eclipse Forms documentation in the Solar Eclipse online help for more information.
Eclipse Interface for use with Billtrust	Setup and instructions for sending invoices and statements using the Billtrust third-party billing service.
Eclipse Interface for use with RouteView	Setup and instructions for shipping orders using the RouteView third-pary routing software.
Eclipse Interface for Use with StarShip	Automation of shipment processing, including rating, labeling, tracking, and reporting.
EIS	Eclipse Information System. Management inquiry reports.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)	Electronic data interchange (EDI) setup, transactions, maintenance, and queues.
Entity Maintenance	Customer maintenance, branch and vendor maintenance, and contact maintenance. Getting Started with Entity Maintenance Creating and Maintaining Customers and Vendors Creating and Maintaining Contacts Creating and Maintaining Branches and Territories Setting Up a Branch in Eterm
Fax System	Fax system setup, memos, and queues.
Forecasting	Customer demand, demand forecasting, trend calculations, seasonal product setup, lead time, economic order quantity (EOQ), hits control maintenance, order points, line points, minimum and maximum stock levels.
General Ledger	General Ledger, subledgers, business summaries, and budgeting.
Glossary	Industry term and Eclipse term definitions.
Hubbell Electronic Withheld Cost (EWC)	Setup and instructions for handling customer rebate requests with the third-party Hubbell Electronic Withhelp Cost application.
Inventory Modeling	A tool to help you model your inventory dollars in a branch by adjusting key components such as turns, safety factors, and minimum quantities.
Job Management	A web-based application that is fully integrated with Eclipse, and that help distributors manage large commercial jobs, such as construction of stadiums or commercial high-rise buildings.
Lot Billing	Lot billing setup, orders, and maintenance.
Master Job Bids	Master job bids, junior orders, and change orders.
Navigation	Help, tool bars, menu options, and system-wide hot keys.
National Sales Tax Database	Setup, instructions, and reports for geocodes and local tax rate information in the United States.
Order Scan	Order Scan preferences, scanning items and building orders with Palm devices, and syncing orders to Sales Order Entry.
Outbound E-mail	Electronic mail and sending messages from Eclipse.
Palm RDC	Palm RDC preferences, creating Order and Levels replenishment transactions for non-consignment and consignment sites, creating auto replenishment orders, and cycle counting using RDC.
Palm SFA	Pocket contacts, pocket scheduler, and pocket job queue.
Product Data Warehouse	Defining and maintaining metadata items, importing data to PDW, merging and syncing PDW records, exporting data to the Eclipse product file, and extracting data to outside files.
Product Maintenance	Product setup, product families, kits, UPCs, MSDS, and inventory maintenance and inquiries.
Pricing	Setup for prices, pricing concepts, price lines, price sheet entry, matrices, rebates, buy and sell groups, commission plans, quote pricing, and reports. Getting Started with Pricing Using Price Lines and Matrix Cells Assigning and Updating Prices Managing Rebates and Commissions Pricing Reports
Purchasing	Purchasing, procurement, returned goods, cross docking, product ranking, and suggested purchase order queue.
Remote Order Entry	Setup and review for orders taken from a remote location.
RF Warehouse Management	Defining warehouse zones and pick groups; bar coding products, locations, and totes; receiving, order picking, and manifest picking; using Fleet Maintenance for deliveries; replenishing and cycle counting locations; using the Warehouse In Process Queues; using RF guns; and working with lot control items all in an RF environment. Getting Started with RF Warehouse RF Receiving Process RF Picking Process Manifest Deliveries in RF RF Location Maintenance RF Replenishment Cycle Counting with RF Warehouse In Process Queues RF Productivity Reports
Report Writer / Mass Load	Mass loading data, generating custom reports, and conversion does and operators.
Reporting	Service level reports, GMROI reports, sales, account, customer, and product reports.
Sales Budgeting	Setup, budget groups, sales budget entry, and maintenance.
Sales Management	Sales order entry, sales reporting, and other sales-related information. Getting Started with Sales Management Common Sales Order Types Entering Customers, Products, Prices, and Payments Managing Created Orders Bid Management Invoice Management Returns and Credits Management
Scheduler and Messaging	Scheduling and updating meetings and events. Sending messages.
Serial Numbers	Entering serial numbers, reviewing serial numbers.
Signature Capture	Setup information and instructions for Emanifest, Epad, and Manifest Processor.
Strategic Pricing	Improve the architecture and pricing in your system to optimize your profit margins.
System Maintenance	Monitoring the system, dictionary maintenance, file definition maintenance, and merge/purge utilities.
Time Clock	Clocking your time, time off budgets, reports, logs, and time clock file conversion.
Trackers, Logs, and Queues	Trackers, activity logs, maintenance logs, change logs, user job queues, and work queues.
Trading Partner Connect Integration for Eclipse	Establishing electronic trading relationships with other distributors and manufacturers outside of Eclipse.
Transfers	Transfers, package quantity and divisibility, and suggested transfers.
Unquality Events Tracking	UET codes, types, and parameters. Viewing, downloading, and logging UET codes.
Using Web Commerce 1 Using Web Commerce 2	Using the web site for level 1 and 2 web commerce.
Virtual Supplier	Setup and entry of orders in one branch that appear they were ordered from another branch.
Warehouse Management (Manual)	Picking, shipping, receiving, inventory, bar code labeling, equipment maintenance, and detail lot maintenance in a manual warehouse environment. Getting Started with Warehouse Management Receiving and Cross Docking Picking and Shipping Material Shipping Manifests Inventory Counting and Adjustments Product and Warehouse Location Maintenance Equipment and Detail Lot Maintenance Bar Codes
Web Integration	Customizing your own Internet storefront.
Web Commerce Setup	Setup and implementation for web commerce level 1 and 2.
Work Order Management	Setup, entry, and maintenance for modifying products from their original form to a more useful form.