Original Confirmation
Original Confirmation lets you keep original ETA Dates for items on Orders and PO's.
OC Dates keep the original, confirmed ETA for items, while the real ETA may change. This gives you an additional date on each Line Item for exporting for external reporting.
Enabled in Company card, Advanced Options, OC Dates require an Enterprise license. They appear on Expanded tabs of Sales Order and Purchase Order and Detail Exports.
Business Intelligence
A 20-year-user of Big Business was acquired by a 500-year-old German conglomerate.
New requirements needed BigBusiness and Microsoft Power BI to report data to SAP. ETA's for PO's and Orders were needed for all deliveries to determine On Time results.
This prompted many changes in BigBusiness to track OC Dates for original ETA date. Line Numbers were customized to link rows shipped to rows ordered in exported data.
BigBusiness Networking
BigBusiness Networking helps you easily connect all computers at your main location.
Big Business is designed to start fast on your office network running Server and Client. If Big Business Server is running, Big Business Clients should see it and connect easily.
There are many options for Firewall, Remote Client, and Cloud Server. To start, check that the Big Business Server is running on your network and start Big Business Client.
Chapter 624 On-Time Delivery
On-Time Delivery helps you track original ETA's and delivery dates for comparison.
BigBusiness includes customizations for additional dates, for original confirmed ETA's. This allows you to update regular ETA's if they change and keep originals for analysis.
This option requires Enterprise Edition, or Open Edition to allow more customization.
Order Sorting
Order Sorting lets you put Line Items on Orders in sequence by Sorting or Inserting.
Order Sorting requires Line Prefs set to Numbered or PO Lines to show line numbers. Numbered uses automatic numbering. PO Lines keeps line numbers from original PO.
Line Prefs are set in Company card, Company Prefs, for the System Setting, and in My Prefs, User Settings, to use or override the System Setting with your own prefs.
Export Sorting
Export Sorting updates exports with Line Numbers to keep Line Numbers in order.
Prior to this change, using Export for Orders or other entries with Line Numbers