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Selling Flooring

Selling flooring, carpet, tiles and related adds a new level of complexity to a business. Flooring has to be controlled differently because each ‘batch’ that comes in could be different; they may have a different dye lot, pattern or other characteristics. It also poses a problem when you have three rolls of carpet, but they are not all the same dye lot. We may have sufficient square footage to satisfy a customer’s needs, but they must all be the same dye lot.

Once you check the Flooring checkbox, the Auto Number and Ship Any Serial will automatically be selected. This is the only change necessary for the model.

Serials​

When reviewing serial numbers, you will notice it groups the qty by location and dye lot. If a customer needs 350 sq. ft. and we have 250 of dye lot 17843-1334 in Location1 and 400 of dye lot 3340-12334 in Main stock, we can only pull the order from Main stock.

Purchasing, receiving, and shipping also change for flooring. Barcoding is not used for flooring and physical count is done manually.

Purchasing​

The ordering process does not change; it is receiving that is slightly different.

When receiving, you use the Auto Number Quantity and fill in the Dye Lot. EPASS will then generate the correct number of serial numbers, all with the same dye lot.

Invoicing​

The adding of a model line for the flooring is the same as any other model, but the reserving and shipping is unique.

When you click Reserve it or Reserve Exclusive, notice the system now prompts for the location, dye lot and quantity. Beside each dye lot, it also shows the quantity available. This will then reserve 100 serial numbers in the selected location and of the selected dye lot.

It will not let you reserve more serial numbers than are available.

Shipping​

Shipping flooring is very similar to reserving. When you click Serial > Add, it launches a similar screen to what you saw in reserving and this will sell the selected number of serial numbers.

As mentioned before, barcoding is not used in flooring; it is all done in regular EPASS.