VMI National Oak also owns Tools N Moore

VMI = Vendor Management Inventory; allows NOD to keep track of Tools inventory and manages the invoice process.

Tools N More’s (Loc9) Inventory will always be 0, because NOD (Loc21) bought the business and put all of Tools inventory into NOD’s inventory.

A VMI system was created for the purpose of NOD managing all of Tools inventory, hence, Tools being the (CUSTOMER) and NOD the (VENDOR).

At POS, Tools will do an order which will down count their inventory from

[0 to -amount of inv. Sold] a negative count, and at the same time, deducts inventory from NOD’s count. Tools will then finalize the invoice, which will prefix with 9, sent to (NOD, Loc 21) essentially like a PO.

Once Tools prints the order, it goes through the VMI process, which is transferred using the OSFI ports, which are in the 700 series.

Invoice then is completed through the COL process at NOD, which is confirmed as a real invoice with the prefix of 9 (Tools N Moore Loc) which, up counts Tools inventory back to 0. NOD was already down counted at the time the order was created by Tools.

The order is then sent back to Tools and printed in the Tools invoice printer, Loc 9. NOTE: inventory is located on-site at Tools, but the transaction process is done between Tools and NOD.

NOTE: Essentially two orders are created, but the one done in COL at NOD is considered as a PO for Tools with NOD being the vendor.

Here are some troubleshooting commands for the VMI process.

WATCH LIST-LOCKQ

WATCH LIST-LOCKS (G – VIEWS ONE LOCK

WATCH LIST-LOCKS (IG – VIEWS ALL LOCKS

LU – WILL IDENTIFY THE OSFI PORTS under ‘USER”. UNDER “LOCATION” is where the process is.

INIT-NETWORK WILL STOP AND RESTART ALL OSFI PORTS – “Make sure that Tools is not doing any orders when using this command.

If order is not confirmed; which means that it did go through the process, but invoice has not returned back to Tools printer then try the following:

Go to 6.3.5, on the NOD side, pull up the invoice number and do the “OC” option; this should resend the order back to Tools.