Category Archives: communication

Multi-Store – Touching Parts

Posted on August 7, 2021 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

I have written many articles about Multi-Store Creator-Editor for Exploris ( Parts Watch by Autologue ) – many of them critical of the errors that still exist and are afraid to fix due to the complexity of the program ( … Continue reading →

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Sweet — option to PUSH you to the Alternate when ZEREO

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

What great find by Ryan at D&T … this is important for guys ( and gals ) to keep learning Exploris ( Parts Watch by Autologue ) …anyways … we have some situations where we may have to keep a … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 14, 2021 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Parts Watch – Exploris Security settings ?? I have a call in to the EXPLORIS ( CARQUEST’s Name for Part Watch ) help desk # 444874 to ask why .. Why don’t we have access to. customize the security settings … Continue reading →

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DFIU — found the bug ….

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

This problem with DFIU ( Autologue PartsWatch Import utility used by CARQUEST Exploris ) has been driving me crazy …. but …figured it out Doing some clean up in data ( we added a PN Code of 999 to move … Continue reading →

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With Exploris .. you have time … to wait … for …?

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Here is an e-mail I just re-sent on inventory scanners in Exploris … Exploris … you have to wait for a lot of things to ( maybe ) happen …   From: Greg Henderson <..snip..> Subject: Fwd: scanners for inventory … Continue reading →

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Bugs ?? Check your daily PO after 57.11 ?

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

It is only a guess …but somehow our daily CARQUEST PO’s have gotten messed up in several of our stores … see images below … many KEY lines were on the Exclude list to order…. holly cow …. yeh … … Continue reading →

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Non-Active Parts File …maybe ???

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

We have written a couple of requests for the non-active sku file – that would allow us to add X lines to the non-active file. Before we became a CARQUEST jobber ( in 2004 )  we had an Autologue computer … Continue reading →

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Inv Count Sheets – after 57.11

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Joe from Auto Barn mentions this point that all stores should watch for ….  On Inventory Count Report … you will need to CHANGE the Print Qty … from QOH ( Qty on Hand ) to Qty Available ….  To … Continue reading →

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Follow Up on Overstock Returns

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Sorry for the lapse in posting …been busy ( and other feeble excuses like that ) … so we added a 4th store and did it have dead stock …it made us look at how we were handling Overstock Returns … Continue reading →

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Time to get serious on ‘little things’

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Sorry for the long lapse in posting here and on the CQCHANGE blog … so lets look at little things and see why they are IMPORTANT. For many years now the e-cat people ( whom are really hard working and … Continue reading →

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