Category Archives: Raleigh Can Do Better

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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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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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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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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Life after 57.11 update in Parts Watch …

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

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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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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Standardize Part Type for E-Cat … why is it important ???

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Here is a e-mail we just sent ..this is important and we have been fighting for this FOR YEARS now … and not making much headway … but …we know it is super important and will keep up the fight… … Continue reading →

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How BIG is too big … in DFIU Importing

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

WE have a line in Canada called BSL for Cross Canada body panels – CARQUEST Canada has stopped supporting this data — but we still sell body panels and need up-to-date data … so we get the data file from … Continue reading →

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A plea to stop flushing descriptions ?

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

The product manager flush and ‘refresh’ descriptions …sometimes that is good …and sometimes we wish they would not do that. example – standard description … our enhanced description ( including Desc #2 with Inventory Control data help ) … BTW … Continue reading →

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How many Weeds do you have in your lawn??

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

I wonder how many weeds you have in your lawn .. or in this case junk and obsolete part numbers in your active MIF data base … we regularly dump the data into excel so we can see the junk … Continue reading →

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