Reordering Products Using the Reorder Pad

To view all of the items a customer has purchased during the last year, or other specified time period, view the customer's Reorder Pad. Select items from the list that you want to include in the current order. The list of recently ordered products includes items on future-dated invoices.

To reorder a product using the Reorder Pad:

Create or open a sales order and display the Body screen.
Use the ReordPad hot key to display the Reorder Pad screen.
Review information for the products listed, as needed.

In the Ord Qty field for each item to reorder, enter the requested quantity.

Note: If the item has minimum buy or sell package quantities, the system displays a prompt indicating that the item has package quantity limitations. You can adjust the quantity as needed.

Press Esc to add the selected items to the Sales Order Entry Body screen.

To reorder products from a product family or price line:

Create or open a sales order and display the Body screen.
In the Product Description field, enter a forward slash (/) to display the Family/Price Line IDs screen.
Select a product family or price line and press Enter to display the Reorder Pad screen.
Continue the reorder process, as described in the steps above.

Note: The Reorder Pad does not show last or suggested purchase information for a customer when accessed using a product family or price line, and no bill-to or ship-to toggle is available.

More Options

The Reorder Pad also offers these options.

To...	Use this hot key...
filter the Reorder Pad by word, price line, or product select code	Slct The Select screen displays. Complete one or more of the fields listed and press Enter.
review every product the customer has ever ordered, as of a selected date	CusHist The Customer Inventory History Ledger screen displays.
review all sales, purchases, transfers, and adjustments of the selected product	InvHist The Inventory History Ledger screen displays.
sort the products on the screen by price line, description, hits, suggested quantity, last date (ascending or descending), product select code, or G/L code	SrT The Sort Options screen displays. Select an option and press Enter.
locate a product you believe the customer has ordered before	Fnd When prompted, enter a keyword to display the Product Primary Index screen.
locate products that the customer has not purchased within the last year	Date When prompted, enter a date earlier than the date one year ago.
toggle between viewing previous quantities and prices	View A selection list displays. Select Quantity or Pricing to view the corresponding columns.
print the list of previously ordered products	Prt A prompt displays. Enter H to send the report to your hold queue, or P to print the report.
remove products with a suggested quantity of zero from the list	Zero
limit the list to items purchased before a specified date or suggested quantities greater than or equal to a specified number	Last When prompted, enter a cutoff date or suggested quantity.
toggle between items associated with the bill-to or ship-to customer	BillTo/ShipTo The system shows either the ship-to or bill-to customer's items when you display the Reorder Pad screen based on the Default Selection For Reorder Pad control maintenance record. If the hot key reads BillTo, you are viewing the Ship-to customer's items.
review demand statistics for the selected product for this customer	Alt-~ (Alt+Tilde) The Customer Product Demand screen displays. Statistics include the number of days in the demand period, the raw demand and number of hits, plus daily and monthly demand calculations.