QAD Supplier Portal 13.7

A new Exporting feature provides users with the ability to export User-Defined Field (UDF) and PO acknowledgment information. Previously, users could only export ASNs, draft invoices, and RFQs from QAD Supplier Portal to the poller client. With this new feature, users can now export UDF and PO acknowledgment data also. Until this release, all procurement data modified in QAD Supplier Portal had to be exported using a method provided by QAD.

QAD Supplier Portal contains a new policy to control the Exporting feature for UDF and PO acknowledgment data. The policy has two optional values:

Users who want to export UDF and PO acknowledgment updates must set the policy to the Extract UDF and PO Ack data option. Then, QAD Supplier Portal will export the required data.

The new policy will not affect customers who do not use the Exporting feature.

To allow users to configure the Export feature, QAD Supplier Portal now includes two new menu items in the Admin menu. To coincide with this change, some other adjustments have been made to the menu items in Admin > Company that relate to data management. The data management menu items have been moved to a new Admin sub-menu called Data Management.

The following is the structure of the new Data Management sub-menu:

• Reset ASN Export Status as Not-Exported has been moved from its previous location in Admin > Company > Reset ASN Export Status as Not-Exported.

• Export UDF & PO Ack - Parameter is a new menu item for this enhancement and helps customer administrators to set up the delimiters for the exported CSV file.

• Export UDF & PO Ack - Monitoring is a new menu item for this enhancement and helps customer administrators to view the export history records for UDF and PO acknowledgment data.

• Delete Records has been moved from its previous location in Admin > Company > Delete Records.

The poller.properties configuration file contains an optional new section:

Use this parameter to define the folder name where you want to save the exported CSV file.

After a customer administrator has set up the policy and the parameters described in Extract UDF and PO Acknowledgment Policy and in New Section in the poller.properties File, the UDF and PO acknowledgment data is exported to the folder defined in the poller.properties file every time the gen load or gip load runs.

The files include all UDF or PO acknowledgment records that were updated in the period from the last successful export to the current loading.

QAD Supplier Portal now correctly recalculates the in-transit quantity for the old and new sites when an existing purchase order is deleted and then recreated with a different site, but with the same supplier and item. Previously, in this scenario, the in-transit quantity was not recalculated correctly for the old site.

Admin > Company > User Maintenance > Contact Information now displays all Alert Email fields with the correct, last modified value. Previously, in this scenario, only one of the last modified Alert Email fields was displayed.

QAD Supplier Portal now correctly displays the red envelope icon when a user receives an alert email for a new VMI working data set selection. Previously, in this scenario, the red envelope icon did not display.

The QAD Supplier Portal poller execution for bulkload now displays improved performance. Previously, the performance was poor.

The QAD Supplier Portal calendar now correctly displays the current (today’s) date. Previously, the calendar did not display the correct date and time for the current date.

The QAD Supplier Portal poller now displays the correct Last Transaction Date under Inventory > Kanban > Card and Admin > Data Set up > Update History - Kanban. Previously, the Last Transaction Date displayed was incorrect.

QAD Supplier Portal screens now correctly remove the trash icon from the sort order when a user's view preference in Admin > Company > User Maintenance > Preferences is set to Scrolling View.

Admin > Company > Additional Poller User now correctly creates an additional poller user. Previously, in this scenario, an additional poller user was not created.

QAD Supplier Portal now displays the correct supplier item ID for all items available under the Min/Max screen. Previously, in this scenario, the supplier item ID was not displayed if more than one record for the same item was available in the Min/Max screen.

Admin > Data Management > Data Set up > Working Data Set up - VMI now displays the correct SKU count for an active supplier and its active item and place combination. Previously, in this scenario, the SKU count did not consider the supplier status.

QAD Supplier Portal now correctly displays the data for the Supplier Quality Performance report by supplier in Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10. Previously, for these Internet Explorer versions, the report was not showing data for the Supplier Quality Performance report by supplier.

Admin > Company > Supplier ID Change now correctly changes the supplier ID for the current company only. Previously, in this scenario, the supplier ID was changed in all companies.

Users can now log in to QAD Supplier Portal in reasonable time. Previously, the log in to QAD Supplier Portal was very slow if the Supplier ID Change menu was used multiple times by any user.