As we start a new year it can be helpful to find new ways to make your life easier. Utilising the PDE (Portable Data Entry) Download option in multiple areas within ACR may provide you with some assistance with speeding up tasks that usually would take much more time to complete.
PDE Download is used to import a basic comma (.csv) or tab delimited text file (.txt) that contains the pertinent information relating to the task at hand. E.g. Product ID and Qty when carrying out a Stocktake. To create these files you can either manually create a notepad text file via your PC or if you are carrying out a stocktake on the factory floor or in the yard or warehouse, you can make use of a common smart phone to run one of the many applications available on the market today, such as Stocktaker Plus (for iPhones). These apps use the smart phone’s camera as a barcode scanner and are used to create the PDE file as a comma or tab delimited text file, which can be emailed, backed up to google drive, downloaded via USB, etc to transfer this information back to the ACR system.
The areas within ACR that you can utilise the PDE download option include:
- Label System – Enables the user to scan a number of items using a hand held unit or manually create a tab or comma delimited text file and then download those products directly into a new batch in the label system.
- Ordering System – Order Entry by PDE – This facility enables users to create an order using a barcode scanner to scan product barcodes into a text file, or they can be loaded via a text file that has been previously created to set specifications. These orders can be reported on by creating a custom report within Report Generator.
- Stock Receipting – Stock Receipt Scanning – This allows users to import a stock receipt by either scanning barcodes or manually entering receipted stock information (Prdid,QTY,etc) into a tab or comma delimited text file.
- Stocktaking System – Create a Manual Stocktake via PDE – Allows for the creation of a stocktake where the product list of the stocktake has been created on a tab or comma delimited text file or scanned into a PDE unit before being imported into ACR.
- Product File Manipulator – PDE Download check box – Ticking this check box will qualify the Product File Manipulator by the products that are contained within the text file. No other qualifiers can be selected if the ‘PDE Download’ option is ticked, the system will only use the products that are contained within the text file and loaded by the PDE Download screen and ignore any qualifiers selected in the Product File Manipulator screen.
We at ACR hope the above functions of the PDE Download option can help you to make every-day business procedures more easily achieved within ACR and with increasing the efficiency of day to day operations within your workplace.