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What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

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Manage your purchasing by setting  the frequency     you call on your vendors   As a child of the 80's the song resonates - but for those who don't get it.. Check it out here.   For today we came up with the concept of how often do you call your vendor when ordering items. For the most part we assume that your vendors don't change all that often and you have a set ordering cycle with them. In any situation there will be exceptions to the rules but generally you should try and stick to a schedule and use the system to help you manage that schedule.  When to call?  How much do i need? The MDS System answers these questions by using our inventory management module and with the enhancement allowing for a specific day of the week or a date each month it's now even easier to update and track your vendor purchases.  The Frequency code is setup by vendor and is used to the determine when each of these vendors will be included in the automatic purchase or...

Can I have what she's having?

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Copy a quote or template to share between clients   If you have seen "When harry met sally" you will get the reference, if not - here is a link to the video.  Here is the concept on this update to the MDS system. how often  do customers buy the same type of stuff. when you do a quote for one type of customer can you reuse it for other's, or at least reuse parts of it? MDS Offers many quick ways to create orders but two simple examples are the ability to create a template for easy ordering and take a quote and convert it. Template and Quote Duplication Offers the ability to copy a quote from  customer to customer and re-price Ability to copy a quote from        one shipping location to alternate shipping locations This gives you the flexibility to copy any existing sales order or quote to a new customer and re-price it using the new customers special pricing rules. Instead of asking for the order , as for the re-orders - tell th...