Enhancements
Metric Ton and Ton Pricing Added to Purchasing with Optional Vendor Defaults
Some vendors price and ship material using Metric Tons or Tons rather than the standard units of measure defined in Eniteo’s item master. This release expands Purchasing to support these vendor-specific pricing practices while preserving consistent inventory costing.
Eniteo now allows Metric Ton and Ton to be selected as pricing units of measure in Purchasing.
When creating a Purchase Order using either unit of measure, Freight is converted to the line-item pricing using Metric Ton or Ton when selected.
When a purchase order line is entered using either unit, pricing and freight calculations are performed using the selected unit of measure, ensuring extended values are calculated correctly on the purchase order.
To reduce repetitive data entry and ensure consistency, Vendor Maintenance now includes the ability to define default units of measure for vendors who consistently price and ship material in Metric Tons or Tons.
When a default is set, new purchase order lines for that vendor automatically use the specified pricing unit of measure. Users can still override the unit on individual purchase order lines if needed.
Finally, when Receiving or Pre-Receiving a purchase order line that was ordered in Metric Ton or Tons, Eniteo automatically converts the received weight to the item master buying unit of measure.
Inventory tags created during receiving always use the item master unit of measure. For example, material ordered in Tons or Metric Tons may be received and tagged using CWT, ensuring inventory remains consistent regardless of how the vendor prices the material.
Minimum Freight and Freight Matrix Options to Regions when using Blended Freight in Command Center
Freight charge options in Region Maintenance have been enhanced for customers using the Blend Freight Charge/Cost in Line Item Pricing setting. Accounts can configure tiered freight rates and a minimum freight charge for any Region--giving more price control over freight when blended with sales order lines.
The Blend Freight Charge/Cost in Line Item Pricing setting is set in Application Control in the Command Center menu.
Once enabled, a Region-based freight process is added to each sales order line when shipping to applicable regions.
With this release, accounts can configure new tiered freight rates and a minimum freight charge for any Region where Load Freight into Command Center is checked. First open the Regions maintenance window under the Maintenance menu.
For each Region there will be two new options. A Minimum Freight Charge input can be set to ensure that freight charges on smaller orders do not fall below a defined minimum amount. If the calculated freight total for a sales order is less than the minimum, the system automatically recalculates the effective CWT rate across all order lines so the minimum freight amount is met.
In addition, a new Freight Charge Matrix allows users to define freight rates using weight-based tiers. Each Region can contain multiple tiers, with each tier specifying:
A maximum shipment weight
A charge per CWT
Once set, the freight price is calculated at the order level using the total shipment weight. As sales order lines are added, edited, or removed in Command Center, the system dynamically recalculates freight and applies the appropriate tiered rate across all lines on the order.
When both a Freight Charge Matrix and a Minimum Freight Charge are defined, the system ensures the freight charge aligns with the correct weight tier and meets the minimum charge requirement.
Note: If a Freight Charge Matrix is configured for a Region, the single Freight Charge field is disabled, as it is no longer used for freight calculations.
Support for “Accumulate to One” Tags in Production
Production and Post Production workflows have been enhanced to support “Accumulate to One” tags as source material, allowing drop and scrap inventory to be processed into finished goods using standard production workflows.
Accumulate to One items are generally used to designate a drop or scap item and set to 1 in the Wt Each field. Previously, Accumulate to One items could only be used as source material in Cutting.
Now, tags that are set to Accumulate to One can be used as the master source in Post Production.
When used, users can enter the actual weight or footage used from the Accumulate to One tag. Eniteo then depletes the appropriate amount from the source tag and updates inventory accordingly.
In addition:
Hard reserves are not written for Accumulate to One tags, and the system determines the correct tag to update based on product and dimensional information.
Scrap feet is always treated as zero and small weight variances under one pound are rounded down.
Over-production warnings that would normally appear when scrap feet go negative are suppressed in these cases.
Finished items must use a non–Accumulate to One product code.
Locking behavior has also been refined to better support shared use of Accumulate to One inventory. Accumulate to One tags are no longer locked during normal production entry. Instead, the tag is locked only at the start of the update transaction. If the tag cannot be locked at that time, the update is stopped and the user is prompted to retry. This approach reduces contention while still protecting inventory integrity during updates.
Other Enhancements
- e-Acquire360: Improved the Steel XML ASN importer to support files that include items across multiple Purchase Orders.
- Load Management: Added Region Ascending and Region Descending sorting options to the Load Management Sorting dropdown. This allows users to organize loads by region for more efficient dispatching.
- Sales by Customer by Product Report: Enhanced the Sales by Customer by Product report to allow filtering by Salesperson 1 or 2. Users can now view data specific to individual salespeople with subtotals displayed in the report header.
- Physical Inventory Variance History Report: Added the Physical Inventory Variance History report available to the application menu.
- Report Writer: Added support for soft-reserved production orders in Report Writer - ProductionOrderHeader information source, improving reporting visibility for work in progress.
Bug Fixes
Enmark Pay
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Command Center where sales totals incorrectly included canceled line amounts after canceling an online prepayment made through Enmark Pay. Canceled lines are now excluded from totals for accurate reporting.
- Command Center: Fixed an intermittent issue where Command Center became locked after sending an Enmark Pay prepayment link and switching customers. The screen now refreshes properly, allowing users to add new quotes or products without restarting.
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Command Center where orders could be repriced after prepayment through Enmark Pay when Multiple Costing was enabled.
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Enmark Pay where canceling a prepayment request and switching to Terms in Command Center kept "EP Prepay" as the selected term. The system now defaults to the customers standard Terms or requires a valid selection.
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Command Center for Enmark Pay where adding Freight Charges with tax caused incorrect Surcharge totals to appear in the order summary. Freight Charges and taxes are now properly included in surcharge calculations and totals.
- Payment Methods: Fixed an issue in Enmark Pay where duplicate payment methods could be created if duplicate Deposit Types existed. The system now enforces unique entries to prevent duplicate payment method records.
- Sales Order Forms: Fixed an issue in Sales Order forms for Enmark Pay where the surcharge and surcharge tax amounts were inflated when a Freight Charge was included. Totals now calculate correctly, ensuring accurate sales forms.
General
- API: Fixed an issue in the Sales API where quotes created with a Ship-To Contact ID did not pull a Region process into quote lines when blended freight options were enabled. Region processes now apply correctly regardless of Ship-To configuration.
- Accounts Receivable: Fixed an issue in AR Reporting where some invoices were being excluded in certain date filters. Invoices now show as expected.
- A/R Prior Period Aging Report: Fixed an issue in the A/R Prior Period Aging Report that caused timeouts with large datasets. The report now executes reliably and loads faster for high-volume data.
- Avalara Integration: Fixed an issue in Command Center for Avalara integrated customers where Avalara provided tax amounts were not updating after switching to Customer, typing in a Ship To address, or hitting Refresh on the shipping options.
- Avalara Integration: Fixed an issue in Toll Processing where scrap credit was taxed through Avalara regardless of customer tax status. Scrap credits now respect exemption settings correctly.
- Billing: Fixed an issue in Billing where price changes made to non-inventory lines didn't save in some circumstances. Users can now adjust pricing for non-inventory lines during billing without losing their changes.
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Command Center that caused incorrect reserve quantities when entering 10 or more order units. The Reserve field now correctly matches the entered Order Units, ensuring accurate reserves.
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Command Center where the Mult Cut process could not be removed when editing a multing job. Users can now properly remove or replace processes.
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Command Center where soft reserves were not being generated for Flat-rolled coil items that matched existing stock. Matching inventory now correctly generates soft reserves to ensure accurate allocation and shipping readiness.
- Command Center: Fixed an issue in Command Center where the Width value was being overwritten by Length when entering plate products with a process. Width entries now save correctly, ensuring accurate dimensions on quotes and orders.
- Inventory Inquiry Report: Fixed an issue in the Inventory Inquiry Report where monthly totals for some transactions were inflated. The report now accurately reflects actual inventory monthly usage values.
- Multing: Fixed an issue in Multing where the system defaulted to an incorrect process when deprecated settings were referenced. Multing now loads correctly and saves without errors.
- Post Production: Fixed a costing issue in Post Production where Drop to Stock transactions incorrectly shared scrap value across finished goods. Costs now reflect accurate devaluation rules.
- Post Production: Fixed an issue in Post Production where devalue calculations failed if no Drop-to-Stock rules were defined. The system now uses original cost as fallback.
- Post Production: Fixed an issue in Post Production where updates were blocked by an invalid out-of-balance condition. Users can now complete Value Add updates without interruption when amounts balance correctly.
- Post Production: Fixed an issue in Post Production where Internal Processing costs were not calculated or were removed when field values for a tag with internal processing costs were modified in Inventory Adjustments.
- Production Order Entry: Fixed a limitation in Production Order Entry when using bundle setup, it accepted only four digits in the weight field. It now supports up to five digits for more precise tracking.
- Production Scheduling: Fixed an issue in Production Scheduling where production orders did not print in the same priority order displayed on the scheduling screen. Printing now follows the correct priority sequence regardless of mode or process selection.
- Production Scheduling: Fixed a minor display issue in Production Scheduling where the Workstation and Process columns were misaligned. All columns now display with consistent alignment for better readability.
- Receiving: Fixed an issue in Receiving where using the scrollbar caused an exception. Users can now scroll freely during receiving without triggering an error.
- Reservations: Fixed an issue where changing an order's due date did not re-trigger the soft reservation routine when Soft Reserve Priority was set to "Order Line Due Date." Reservations now automatically reprioritize based on the updated line due dates.
- Shipping: Fixed an exception occurring in Shipping when previewing, printing, and sending reports in some circumstances while using the Combine All Reports by BOL option.
- Toll Processing: Fixed an issue in Toll Processing where Billing used Net instead of Gross weight under specific conditions. Billing now respects the Gross setting consistently.