Category Archives: Raleigh Can Do Better

Scanner for Inventory or S/R order check off – not quite ready for prime time

On the most recent software update ( which come few and far between …. imho ) there was a section talking about hand held portable scanners ( the counter scanners have worked we’ll for a long time ) … when … Continue reading

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How to trim paper from our systems ?

I would’ve for someone to drop me a line at INFO(at)dtauto(dot)ca if you have a workable idea to reduce paperwork required from EXPLORIS computer system? Here is one months purchases from one of our stores …with the Coke can for … Continue reading

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Variable Pricing …finally …. and ????

After years and years  of pleading with CARQUEST to adopt variable pricing on select lines ( heck ..everything … ? ) we finally have the tools to do in with the recent Exploris update.   Amazing that the push to … Continue reading

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Special Thanks to the people who PUSH and suggest new ways ….

I had heard that the new release ( V56.3.46 ) was the hard work from Franco in New Jersey …so I called him to thank him … ( he also gets the credit for having “ALL STORES” added to the … Continue reading

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Rule # 429 … tell us when you know …

Ok ..we are past day # 1 on the new version release ( 2.56.3 ) and lets stop for  a minute … rule # 429 … if you know there is something BAD related to the release – please have … Continue reading

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How many bugs must we endure ????

It is few and far between when we see long standing BUGs being fixed in Exploris  …Here is a simple fix that is still wrong …. Export a price change report and the header has a column for DESCRIPTION but … Continue reading

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Chasing your tail … arround and around …

Doing forecasting …. OK …. some shortcomings in the program ( like matching the stock qty on items that sell well  – when you use and when you ignore ‘per car qty’ ) …. So something simple like the part … Continue reading

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One More Suggestion … ?

A lot of computer systems take years of constant additions …. for NextPart  ( and our Exploris )  …we need additional items to make this a full featured system … look how long it took for the ability to delete … Continue reading

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Forecasting on Moveups Screen …using unlinked history

Here is an interesting problem we came across last week.  Call # 730 2786 … asking why the Forecasting screen showed MUCH SMALLER sales history than our data dumps for the part in Reports>Inventory Info … Turns out the Forecasting … Continue reading

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What’s New …and are we being told ???

I am looking up a blog post I wrote a while back on what descriptions are used in e-cat … I want to look at how we can FIX our rotor description so the economy rotors indicate they are economy … Continue reading

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