Category Archives: X Lines

How do you clean up X Lines ….

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

OK –so you mastered the DFIU program to import X lines … way to go ..that means you are reasonably familiar with Excel and can do simple math. But –what happens after a couple of years in that X line … Continue reading →

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Getting Bar Code Scanners working

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

It is interesting but sometimes the hardest thing to get updated –is staff attitudes … we are finding that there is always 1 store that resists using scanners… We have a special Beta test with Raleigh to update our UPC … Continue reading →

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Trivia Question …X Lines

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Did you know ….  ” For non-CARQUEST Lines, Weblink validates against the store copy of the MIF.  Exploris does not.” We ran into a problem with this and could not figure out why Web-Link was CLEAN but Exploris had extra ‘junk’ … Continue reading →

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understanding UPC codes … buggy ? or lack of our knowledge

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

Our 3 stores have been pushing ahead to try to learn UPC info and see how if effects our operations.  Recently ( like yesterday ) we were loading a fair sized file and realize how much grief UPC codes can … Continue reading →

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Making DFIU work better

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Make CARQUEST even better for us all

DFIU is the program that allows jobbers to import data for their X lines ….  As far as I can tell only a small fraction of jobbers use this – mainly to their LACK of knowledge in Excel …. Anyways … Continue reading →

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