Technical Note: 20060418020

SYSCO Purchase Order Interface

(Maitre'D 2005, from Service Pack 3 and later versions of Maitre'D)

You can exchange electronic Purchase Order files with the SYSCO Food Services of Los Angeles supplier.

Inventory Management / View / Options / Purchase Order

Directory:

Enter the path used for trading Purchase Order files with the SYSCO Food Services of Los Angeles server. Use the folder icon to browse to your shared directory. A background application monitors this folder to send files saved by Maitre'D to the SYSCO server. Once that server has treated these Purchase Order files, it returns Answer Files of it's own in the same directory.

Inventory Management / File / Suppliers

Code:

SYSCO Number:

Inventory Management / Action / Purchase Order

EXPORT:

Select a Purchase Order and click this button to export a file to SYSCO.

Note: The exported file name is nnnn.POE, where nnnnn is the supplier's SYSCO Number entered in Inventory Management / File / Suppliers

Inventory Management / Action / Purchase Order / Answer File List

Once the SYSCO server has treated the Purchase Order files, it returns Answer files of it's own in the path defined in Inventory Management / View / Options / Purchase Order. When accessing the Purchase Order screen, if Maitre'D finds such files in that folder, it displays them in the Answer File List.

PRINT:

Select an answer file name and click this button to open that file in Notepad, ready to be printed.

REMOVE:

Select an answer file name and click this button to delete it from the list.