Category Archives: Helpful Hints & Tips

Multi-Store – Touching Parts

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

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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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 ….

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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One More Enhancement request … really ….

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 ….

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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Reason # 25 – why Exploris ( Parts Watch ) should be better …. delays in fixing BUGS

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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Non-Active Parts File …maybe ???

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

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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Life after 57.11 update in Parts Watch …

OK …so we waited and waited …and many of our changes … well …have yet to make it …sure 57.11 is full of BUG FIXS …but many are not the ones we run into day after day.   Example of … Continue reading

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