Technical Note: 20080520005

Use Food Service Price Catalog

(Maitre'D 7.04.021.018 and later versions of Maitre'D)

You can receive price changes automatically from a SYSCO Food Services supplier.

Inventory Management / View / Options / Purchase Order

Use Food Service Price Catalogue:

Enable this option to update the prices from a food service catalogue file every time the Inventory Management module is started.

Note: You will need files from Sysco to put in the folder specified in the Directory field above. You will also need to create a batch file named fsp.bat, to put in the C:\Posera\MaitreD\Prg folder, and edited to point to the same directory as above.

Example of batch file using the above path - FSP.bat should have the following lines:

cd\

cd c:\posera\maitred\data\sysco

ord.bat

Manual Update:

Click this button to request a price catalogue from the food service supplier server. The supplier's server must upload this file in the Directory specified above.

If more then one supplier is setup with a Sysco Number, you must specify the server to interrogate.

Note: A Windows Scheduler can also be used with a batch file to get the price catalogue files periodically.

Inventory Management / Action / Merchandise Reception

Price:

If a Purchase Order was generated before a new price catalogue was imported, the former price is still used for the Merchandise Reception of that PO.

Note: Purchase Orders generated after the catalogue import will use the new price.

Inventory Management / File / Inventory Item / Cost

Cost:

The new price is in effect.

Last Cost:

The former price is still displayed, because the last Merchandise Reception used the previous price valid when the Purchase Order was originally created.

Note: The Average Cost will also be adjusted on the next Merchandise Reception from a Purchase Order generated after the new price is effective, or without a PO.