To define the default hits and central warehouse type for a buy line:The Purchasing program uses the Hits Control Maintenance screen to define system default hits-related inventory parameters.
A hit is the sale of a product. This is not necessarily the quantity sold. For example, a product has five hits. You have sold it in five instances. The first three instances the customer bought one of the product. The last two instances the customer bought five of the product. In total, you sold 13 items in five hits.
Use the Hits Control Maintenance screen to specify the central warehouse type for branches in a multi-branch network. Set up your warehouse as either a Top-Down or Bottom-Up warehouse. A Top-Down warehouse replenishes products for the parent branch before replenishing the child branches. A Bottom-Up warehouse replenishes the child branches before the parent branch. For example, if one of your child branches sells a particular item more than any other branch, you can use the Bottom-Up warehouse setup to ensure that the child branch always has that item available.
When defining branch and network hits, the system uses the number of hits identified to determine when to consider a product to be a stock keeping product. For example, you normally sell Product A three times in a six-month period. Consequently, you have three hits on the product in 90 days. However, you determine that if Product A gets six hits in a six-month period, it should be kept in stock.
Hits parameters are assigned at three levels:
Control – Applies to all products unless overridden by a price line or product level forecast parameters.
Buy Line – Applies to all products assigned to the designated buy line and overrides the company default parameters.
Product – Applies to the product and overrides the buy line and company default parameters.
To define the default hits and central warehouse type for a buy line:From the Purch > Maintenance menu, select Buy Line Maintenance to display the Buy Line Maintenance screen.
In the Buy Line ID field, enter a buy line ID and press Enter.
The fields populate with the buy line information.
Use the Hits/Max Days hot key to display the Hits Control Maintenance screen.
In the Central Warehouse Type field, enter T for Top-Down or B for Bottom-Up warehouse type.
In the Branch Hits field, enter the number of hits for each branch that you want before considering a product to be a stock item.
In the Network Hits field, enter the number of hits you want to reach before considering a product to be a stock item.
In the Max Days field, enter the number of days to which you want to limit the hits. For example, you only want to track hits for 90 days.
Press Esc to save the information.
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