As part of electronic supplier integration, SpeedLine integrates with McLane SourceLink™ to allow automatic receives into SpeedLine Inventory. Follow the steps below to enter integration settings for McLane SourceLink™.
To Enter Supplier-Specific Options for McLane SourceLink
|
Note These instructions assume you have already set up your Periods and Report Periods, and have set file permissions for SourceLink. See Working with Periods and Set SourceLink File Permissions. |
1.Go to the Settings> Inventory Settings> Inventory Options 
> Supplier Specific tab.
2.In the Files area, the standard path (C:\pfs) to the following files are shown:
•items.dat: a "dictionary" of the stock items available from SourceLink.
•receipt.dat: a list of the stock items for the most recent order. This file will be sent to you by McLane SourceLink before your order arrives.
•Archive folder: when an order is imported from SourceLink™, the receipt.dat file is moved to this date/time-stamped sub-folder. For example, if a receive is imported from SourceLink™ at 8:53:00am on May 15, 2009, the receipt.dat will be found in C:\PFS\Archive\05152009_085300.
•unknownItems.dat: after you import a receive, this file will contain a list of any items that were not recognized by Inventory.
•exclusions.dat: a list of known items that can be excluded when importing a receive.
3.Review the file path fields. If the SourceLink™ program is not in the C:\pfs folder on your computer, use the browse button 
to select the correct file path to each .dat file.
|
Important SourceLink™ and Store Manager must both be run from the same computer when importing items or receives. |
4.Select one of the SourceLink options:
•Select SourceLink WEB if you are using a Web browser to connect to the McLane SourceLink Web site.
-or-
•Select SourceLink DOS if you connect to McLane SourceLink using a modem.
|
Important if you are using SourceLink WEB, you must copy information from the McLane web site and create items.dat and receipt.dat files manually. Contact SpeedLine Support for more information. |
5.Select the Auto Post Receiving check box to have receives posted automatically when you complete the Receive Wizard.
|
Note If you select Auto Post Receiving you will not have an opportunity to review the received items before they are posted. Do not select this setting unless you have been successfully receiving items using SourceLink for some time, and are absolutely certain that you will never need to edit the receive batch before it is posted. |
6.Select Trim Supplier Part Number Leading Zeros to remove zeros from the beginning of the supplier part numbers when they are received. This will prevent mismatch of imported stock items with existing items that have had part numbers entered manually without leading zeros in the Stock Items detail Suppliers tab.
7.Select Match Receive UOM and Purchased UOM to find new items to use the Supplier Purchase UOM and Supplier Receive UOM values of existing inventory stock items (in the Stock Items detail Suppliers tab) to identify which items in the McLane items.dat file are new.
See also:
•Set SourceLink File Permissions
•Import Supplier-specific Stock Items and Units of Measure
