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This utility allows you to keep track of what putaways are in your system that have not been collected or are on backorder as well as deleting or modifying a putaway.

To access the Putaway Management Screen, from the Main Screen of Retailer, click on Tasks -> Putaways Management.

Keeping track of what putaways are waiting for pick up

From this window you will see information about any putaways that are in the system.
You can see the customer’s name and title they have waiting to pick up as well as other relevant information about the putaway like the items arrival date, pricing and recall date.
Leaving the Collected and Returned options unticked you will only see uncollected putaways.

Modifying a Putaway

To assign a putaway to another customer, double click on the title in question and click on the Assign To Another Cust button.
From here you can elect to leave it as a putaway for a different customer or sell it to a different customer straight away.

Deleting a Putaway

To delete a putaway, highlight the required row and click the delete button down the bottom of the window.

Putaway Stocktake

You can run a putaway stocktake from this window by clicking the Putaway Stocktake button.

Click HERE for more detailed instructions on doing a Putaway Stocktake.

Putaway Report

You can run a putaway report by clicking the Report button. From here you have 2 options:
Go to the Putaways Report options screen - This will bring up a list of options for you to choose from when running the report.
Run the Report on only the items in the grid - This runs the same report but only for items already visible in the grid.

If you choose to go to the Putaways Report Options screen you will see the options below:
  1. Select the Report Style - Allows you to choose what details will show on the report.
    1. Customer, title and issue - The most common setting, shows the customer and their putaway.
    2. Supplier and issue - Shows just the supplier and issue, can show customers if ticked.
    3. Unsent Backorders for a supplier - Shows only unsent backorders for the chosen supplier
    4. Stopped customers with uncollected putaways - Only shows stopped customers with uncollected putaways
  2. Select Putaways arrived between any date range - Allows you to show all putaways regardless of date or select a date range for the report
  3. Select which status' to include - Tick which order status' you wish to see on the report.
    1. Collected - Shows orders that have been collected by the customer.
    2. Putaway  - Shows orders that have not yet been picked up by the customer
    3. Backordered - Shows orders that have been backordered with the supplier, here you can choose all and unsent only
    4. Returned - Shows only putaways that have been returned 
  4. Select a recall date to search for - This allows you to specify a recall date to show putaways for. For example only putaways for the current week.
  5. Select which suppliers to include - Allows you to run the report on specific suppliers.
  6. Click Preview or Print to view the report.

Reading the Report

Each customer is identified on the report by their Customer number, Name and phone number if available followed by a sub heading of the title on order. Then the following information is displayed about each putaway:
Date Arrived - Shows the date the title was arrived.
Issue Name - Shows the issue name of the title.
Recall Week - Shows the recall week of the title on putaway.
Qty Collected - Shows the total qty collected so for of that title.
Qty on Backorder - Shows the total quantity of titles on backorder.
Qty Uncollected - Shows the total number uncollected putaways the customer currently has.
Total Cost Uncollected - Shows the total cost of each customers uncollected putaways.