O/PUS® Update Notes & News

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Before you load your O/PUS quarterly catalog update, check here for late-breaking news, including any corrections after releasing OPUSInstall, OPdb, and FYI² Notes for the current quarter.

See also O/PUS Quarter-End Procedure FAQs & Doc.

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1st Quarter 2012
(Pricing Effective January 1)

1/10/2012: O/PUS Update: United Stationers 9W Catalog Available to Load

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United Stationers 9W Catalog Available to Load

Dear DDMS Customers:

As we reported yesterday, United Stationers has issued an updated 9W file.

O/PUS has completed processing and testing, and the file, 9W9W, is now available for you to load into your system at your discretion.

Rest assured, 9W9W only updates the base cost on 9W items. It will not affect any other plans.

The procedure is not mandatory. It is optional. The steps are as simple and familiar as using the UpdateUNI.exe Catalog page:

  1. Shut down DDMS and back up your DDMS files. A day-end backup will do.
  2. Make sure the DDMS server is not running any programs, except TBL Server.
  3. Launch the UpdateUNI.exe program, and click Start.
  4. Click the Next button, skipping the Price Plan pages, until you reach the United Stationers Catalogs page.
  5. Click in an empty row's Catalog name field, and enter 9W9W (all caps).
  6. Click the Select checkbox to enable it. No other changes are needed.
  7. Click Next until you reach the final page.
  8. Click Download Selected Files.
  9. Once file has been downloaded, click Start Update.

For details, see Load Multiple United Stationers Price Files At Once (pdf).

Note: Post-load procedures are not required, but may be used at your discretion based on your individual dealership's cost evaluations.

Should you have any questions related to this issue or any other price discrepancy questions please contact the United Stationers customer technical support group as listed below.

United CTS Support hours are from 7:30am to 7:00pm CST. On call is from 7:00pm to 10:00pm for emergency order entry issues: Leave a message on the 800# and the customer will be called back.

Third Party Technology Provider & Dealer Support – techsupport@ussco.com 1-800-733-5555

Bob Zwinn - Escalation Manager – zwinnro@ussco.com Direct: 1-847-627-2470

1/9/2012: O/PUS Update Notes: United Stationers Announces New 9W File

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United Stationers Announces New 9W File

Dear DDMS and Britannia Customers:

United Stationers is issuing an updated 9W file. Rest assured, ECi will provide instructions on how best to update pricing once we complete processing and testing.

United Stationers’ announcement is as follows:

It has come to our attention that the recent change in United Stationer’s 9W price logic has created confusion and potentially compromised business processes for some of our dealers. Based on feedback from our dealers and dealer technology providers United has decided to rescind the move of 9W price points to equal manufacturer list price less a penny.

United will create a new 9W price file with price points comparable to where the 9W prices previously fell. It’s important to understand that in most cases other price plans will offer lower price points than 9W and the actual billing price is likely to be less than 9W. However, we do believe this approach will return 9W price points to a level where the plan can be used for the same business processes it has been utilized for in the past.

This revised pricing will be live in United’s system no later than Tuesday January 10th and available to download from your technology provider no later than Friday January 13th. Please note that there is no need to complete another download if you are not currently experiencing any issues. If you wish to avoid a mid month reload this price file will also be available on the February monthly upload file and ongoing on the usual quarterly price files.

For dealers who are not assigned to price plan 9H, or would prefer to utilize the revised 9W cost value as their baseline cost, we recommend that you reload pricing from this revised 9W file as soon as it is available. Both DDMS and Britannia will be providing instructions on how best to load the revised 9W price plan once the Unitape file processing has been completed.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this approach may have created and do value your business relationship.

Should you have any questions related to this issue or any other price discrepancy questions please contact the United Stationers customer technical support group as listed below.

United CTS Support hours are from 7:30am to 7:00pm CST. On call is from 7:00pm to 10:00pm for emergency order entry issues: Leave a message on the 800# and the customer will be called back.

Third Party Technology Provider and Dealer Support – techsupport@ussco.com 1-800-733-5555

Bob Zwinn - Escalation Manager – zwinnro@ussco.com Direct: 1-847-627-2470

12/29/2011: O/PUS Ready to Load

We sent O/PUS Update Notes: 1Q2012 Installer, Data Ready to Load to all O/PUS customers.

12/29/2011: Download OPUSInstall Software Update

O/PUS released software updates in OPUSInstall — for download now via the ECI Customer Support Portal's Software Downloads section.

This software update is ready for you to download NOW.

Each quarter, you need to download and run OPUSInstall. The quarterly release of OPUSInstall includes any enhancements, vendor parameters (described as needed in FYI² Notes) or other software changes that may be necessary to update your Item database with this quarter's data:

Updated! PSNControl Version 1.1.217 or higher.

Updated! O/PUS SIMPLE Version 1.1.591 or higher.

Updated! UpdateSPR.exe Multiloader v11213A or higher.

Updated! UpdateUNI.exe Multiloader v11213A or higher.

Contract Wizard 2.0.36 or higher (no change).

The members-only ECI Customer Support Portal's page of Software Downloads is the primary method of delivery for all DDMS software. Just log in, click Software Downloads, scroll down to the OPUSInstall, and follow the on-screen instructions.

If you do not have portal access, see the alternative method.

12/29/2011: FYI² Notes Published With News For This Quarter

O/PUS has published the new quarterly newsletter "For Your Immediate Information - OPdb MultiVendor Update", also known as FYI² Notes (pdf). In it, you will find vendor notes, the names of the vendor price files available on the O/PUS OPdb update, and other news for this quarter:

ECi Offers Complimentary Saturday Support Via Portal or Email Dec. 31

Free Remaining O/PUS Refresher 1 pm CT Jan 4

S.P. Richards, United Stationers Monthly Files Included in Q1 Load

United Stationers Retires 9W from Best Price Role

Action Pending to Remove Old References for Changed MAC Codes

Pre-Load: New Inventory File Compression Steps Using ;SPCCMPJR

Download O/PUS Software Updates now via ECi Support Portal

O/PUS Vendor Multiloader Makes Supplemental Price Files a Breeze

Updated DDMS EBS SQL Steps for Quarter-End

Let ECi DDMS Professional Services Load O/PUS for You

12/6/2011 — Anticipated Dates for 1st Quarter 2012

As shown in the chart at the top of this page, ECi DDMS Technical Support anticipates the following release dates for 1st Quarter O/PUS® Multi-Vendor Catalog Updates and related events:

  • OPUSInstall.exe, OPUS, OPUSTPA, and the FYI² Notes newsletter are all slated for release the week of December 26.
  • Period-End Support Saturday, December 31: ECi DDMS offers complimentary support for period-end and O/PUS procedures on the weekend nearest quarter-end. Your support teams will be available Saturday, December 31, from 9 am – 4 pm Central Daylight Time. No Phone Calls during Saturday Support. For assistance at no charge on day-end, month-end and quarter-end O/PUS procedures, please send your question via portal or email.
  • We expect to receive the monthly update files from S.P. Richards and United Stationers in time for inclusion within the OPUS file. Pending receipt and testing, there should be no need to download or process UNI-JAN or SPR-JAN separately at this time. We will notify you via email and on the portal if these circumstances change.
  • ECi Content Services and Operations will update Web Storefront servers (Ecinteractive, is.D-Force 2, Dealer Station, is.D-Force, and Dealer Station Xtended) on the weekend of January 6-8 from Friday at 11 pm through Sunday at 8 pm Central Time.
  • OPUSCAN is slated to be released January 1.
  • UNI-FEB and SPR-FEB are slated for February 1.
  • UNI-MAR and SPR-MAR are slated for March 1.
  • Super Store Data (SSDitems and SSDPricing) is discontinued. For details on and access to Trade Service's new Chain Store Data, please contact Trade Service Tech Support at 1-800-701-6999 or e-mail to technicalsupport@tradeservice.com.

 

12/6/2011 — Free O/PUS Refresher Training December 27 and January 4

ECi offers free Web-Based refresher training Tuesday, Dec. 27, 10 AM – Noon CST
and Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1 – 3 PM CST to review parameters and procedures and learn what's new for this quarter. For details and to register, see our Free Training Page.

Archives

For news and FYI² Notes from previous quarters, click here for our Archives page.

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