Furniture Order Entry Concepts

Recently, the Furniture industry standardized its system of tagging items. All business systems, specifier systems and manufacturers must comply with the new standards. In compliance with these industry standards, the Furniture application imports, stores, modifies, displays, communicates and reports on these new tag fields. In previous software versions, you could only import one tag field, the tag number, when importing a SIF file. The tag number was the TG (tag) section of the SIF file. In addition, the system only imported a maximum of seven characters. You also used the Tag Description field to manually enter a description for the tag. Beginning with software version 8.14.0, you can import the same tag field as in previous versions, now Tag 1, but instead of seven characters, the system lets you import up to 50 characters. We’ve also replaced the Tag Description field with four new tag fields.

 

Currently, there are five standard tag fields as follows:

 

Industry Field Names        Ensite Pro Field Names

TG = Tag                                        Tag 1

GC = Generic Code                         Tag 2

L1 = Alias 1                                    Tag 3

L2 = Alias 2                                    Tag 4

L3 = Alias 3                                    Tag 5

 

If you use a specifier program, such as 20-20 Worksheet or Project-Spec, you can export these five tag types and tag descriptions into a SIF file that can then be imported into Furniture Order Entry. The tags appear in yellow text in the Item Detail tab's Description column, and are shown under the item's options. They display beneath the heading PLEASE TAG AS FOLLOWS.

 

Using the following tag example:

 

Industry Field Names         Ensite Pro Field Names

TG = Tag                                     Room 236

GC = Generic Code                      Brown Chair

L1 = Alias 1                                 Second Floor

L2 = Alias 2                                 Accounting Department

L3 = Alias 3                                 Michael Smith's Office

 

The text would appear in yellow text in the Item Detail tab:

 

PLEASE TAG AS FOLLOWS:

Room 236

Brown Chair

Second Floor

Accounting Department

Michael Smith's Office

 

You can also view, change, and add tag information using the Order Notes (F11) dialog box. To do so, click the down arrow in the Normal box to the right of the Line Item box and click Tag. The Tag 1, Tag 2, Tag 3, Tag 4, Tag 5 boxes open, along with the text that was imported with the SIF. The system displays a maximum of 50 alphanumeric characters of tag text. You can access tags during Order, Change, Initial Verify, Final verify, and Delete modes. Also, when releasing quotes to an order, the system automatically brings the tags over to the new order.

 

Reporting

New formats have also been created so you can print the new tag information:

 

TN   Pick Ticket

PN   Proforma

AN   Acknowledgement

DN   Delivery Ticket

IN    Install Ticket

QN   Proposal/Quote

FE   Invoice

DS   Delivery w/tags

IS    Install w/tags

Note: If you previously used formats DT and IT, the new DS and IS formats contain line 27 with only tag 1 and tag 2. The remaining formats shown above display the tags in the special lines.