Category Archives: Enhancement Request

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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DFIU — the thing you LOVE and HATE

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

DFIU is the name of the side program that allows to you upload data into Exploris. Many years ago when I was on the Exploris Committee when it was rolling out – I remember others mentioning how important it was … Continue reading →

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One More Enhancement request … really ….

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Digging into Invoice Discounts taken at the time of invoicing … this is a great catch started by Ryan … it shows up on the Journal report — but just as a TOTAL of all invoice discounts … there is … Continue reading →

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Digging deeper into Audit’s ….

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

A short time back one of our stores calls me to find out why I set an very odd – extreme order point on 2 part numbers …. and I was baffled … in 1 case I had recently adjusted … 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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Reason # 25 – why Exploris ( Parts Watch ) should be better …. delays in fixing BUGS

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

When PartsWatch ( CARQUEST jobbers call it Exploris ) breaks something – it seems to take forever to get it fixed … this example wasn’t a great example as the original report was crap from a jobbers perspective …. the … 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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