Ordering

The MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application offers various possible ways to order goods in order to restore the individually-defined quantity in stock.

You can carry out item orders manually by entering the required quantity and defining the order location and the locations of the supplier, head office, a central or internal stock of your own or another branch.

Apart from the "manual" order, the MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application offers the option of an automated ordering system. The MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application can be configured so that the order location and the item quantity to be ordered will be carried out automatically, according to the parameters defined by you. This means that with an automatic order suggestion which is based on the current quantity in stock, an order from a supplier, a central stock location, a different branch or a different stock location in the own branch will be made. The order, on the other hand, is the basis of the delivery.

In the following, you will find a general description with some examples of the various ordering options offered by the MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application. Due to the flexibility of this part of the program, a direct procedure cannot be prescribed since varying work steps might be necessary, depending on your installation and the various different organisation structures.

Further on, in the second step, the Requirements which have to be met in order to enable the automated ordering system will be listed. In addition, the necessary Parameters that have effects on the order system will be described.

Generally, we have to distinguish between external and internal orders in the MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application. The external order is addressed to a supplier while the internal order is addressed to a different branch, a different stock location within a branch, to head office or a central stock location.

An overview of the multiple possibilities of an internal ordering request are displayed in the following image, cp. Ordering Request.

General Description

The following update programs are responsible for the various ordering options in the MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application:

• Creation of an Order Suggestion for a Supplier
  (Application -> Supplier -> Pre Order)
  By use of this update program, you can make the system generate an automatic order suggestion for a particular stock location. The required order will be determined by the system according to minimum and maximum quantities in stock that you have defined for every Stock Item in the corresponding stock.
  In addition, you have to define from which supplier and in which ordering size the goods are to be ordered. The necessary settings have to be configured in the update program Stock Location.
  From the prepared order, you can create an order from a supplier – subsequent to an examination and possible changes.
• Orders from a Supplier
  (Application -> Supplier -> Order)
  By use of this program, you can create orders to a supplier. The order can be generated manually or adopted from a prepared order.
• Internal Order to Central
  (Application -> Stock -> Internal Order Request -> Internal Order to Central)
  By use of this program, you can process an order request to the central. This kind of order requires that within a multi-branch installation (central/ store), the branch of the main installation has set the characterization "central" as the order location. In addition, the order category "central" must have been assigned to the corresponding items via the update program Stock Item.
• Internal Order Request to Central Warehouse
  (Application -> Stock -> Internal Order Request -> Internal Order to Warehouse)
  By use of this program, you can process an order request to the warehouse. This kind of order requires that a branch which has set the characterization "warehouse" as the order location exists within a multi-branch installation (central/ store). In addition, the order category "warehouse" must have been assigned to the corresponding items via the update program Stock Item.
• Internal Order to Branch
  (Application -> Stock -> Internal Order Request -> Internal Order to Branch)
  By use of this program, you can process an order request to a different branch. This kind of order requires that a branch which has set the characterization "branch" as the order location exists within a multi-branch installation (central/ store). In addition, the order category "branch" must have been assigned to the corresponding items via the update program Stock Item.
• Internal Order to Stock
  (Application -> Stock -> Internal Order  Request -> Internal Order to Stock)
  By use of this program, you can process an order request to a different stock location within a branch. This kind of order requires that a branch which has set the characterization "no order" as the order location exists within a multi-branch installation (central/ store). In addition, the order category "no order" must have been assigned to the corresponding items via the update program Stock Item.

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