FDS Inventory Item Maintenance entry Dialog: 
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Item Maintenance entrty:

1. Enter or Select Inventory item stock number.
2. Tab or Enter to field to change.
3. Make all desired changes or additions.
4. Select ‘ACCEPT Item’.
5. The modified record is moved to the ‘Menu’ list.
6. Continue to adjust item records until complete.
7. Update the Inventory database (INV-R) by selecting ‘ACCEPT Mnt’.
8. Inventory is updated and a common delimited file is made of all changes.  This file can be transported to other systems for importation.  In this application, data are and imported by selecting ‘READ File’ and then selecting ‘ACCEPT Mnt’.

Funcions:

1. ‘READ File:  Reads delimited file maintenance files to provide (maintenance) batch importation.  Batch updates can be communicated to a site and procedures provide unattended processing into the INV-R database.

2. ‘CLEAR Top’:  Clears all current selected inventory fields from the input panel.  A new item can then be selected without adding the previous entry to the menu list.

A new item can be selected by entering the item product number in the index field and selecting ‘ENTER’ on the keyboard.  Selecting an item in the inventory list (select the index field) will bring an item from the inventory list to the entry panel.

3. ‘CLEAR All’:  Selecting ‘CLEAR All’ will clear both the top entry panel and the menu list.  This is a start over function.

4. ‘ACCEPT Item’:  Moves current item in the entry panel to the menu list.  These items can be inventory items that are not changed but are needed for communications and future importation.

5. ‘ACCEPT Mnt’:  Takes all entries in the menu list and updates the INV-R inventory database.  A report will appear following this procedure showing all maintenance.  This report file can be printed and or saved for importation purposes.

6. ‘DELETE Item’:  Select an entry in the menu list and then select ‘DELETE Item’ and this item will be eliminated from the update menu list.

Concept of process:

1. The foundation of the FDS Inventory are records stored in the stock record portion of the INV-R database.  Other segments of this database support the stock records.  The application ‘FDS_Maintenance.exe’ supports the stationary portion of the stock records.  Sales, costs, purchases, etc. are maintained by other procedures.   The database is segmented based on data function in the following manner:

a.	Stock records (FDS_Maintenance.exe).
b.	Sales records (FDS_Sales.exe).
c.	Purchase records (FDS_Purchases.exe).
d.	Waste and Transfers In & Out (FDS_Waste.exe).
e.	Explosion records (FDS_Explosion.exe).
f.	Physical counts (FDS_Physical.exe).

Other modules produce reporting, merge data files, start new cycles, compute shortages, etc.

 Cautions:

a.	Perform events in the right sequence.
b.	Be careful that conversion units between purchases and inventory are correct.
c.	Be careful that conversion units between sales and inventory are correct.
d.	Maintain backup of the INV-R database.
d. Maintain backup of the file maintenance batches (backup files and automatically stored in the BACKUP directory).