Distribution v20.1

Sicon Distribution Manager is designed specifically as an enhancement for Sage 200. Fully integrated with the Sage 200 Stock and Order Processing modules. Designed to manage the requirements of distribution organisation’s to improve costing, reduce stock holdings, manage seasonal trends, increase telesales productivity and incorporate sales forecasting within future stock projections and suggested purchase order creation.

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201.19.6

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved
  • Fix for “Stock replenishment” screen creating duplicate stock transfers and to also correctly set the transfer values when there is multiple warehouses being transferred to for the same stock item
  • Fix to correctly validate Preallocation quantities with UOM

Date applied: January 11, 2021

201.18.6

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix for speed issue when saving purchase orders and the users are using Sicon Fulfilment methods
  • Fix to landed cost to update PO lines landed costs when the actual totals are updated in the grid
  • Fix to fall back to landed cost commodity code mappings before falling back to the template value

Date applied: January 7, 2021

201.0.6

Issues Resolved Hot Fix Enhancements
Issues Resolved
  • Fix to automatically set the actual totals when adding landed costs
  • Fix to when opening the purchase order line screen with Container Manager and SOP Management sub modules turned on [“Object Reference Error”]

Hot Fix Enhancements
  • Updated the stock matrix entry screen to allow the user to add “Commodity Code”, “Country of Origin” and “Weight”
  • Added a new setting to handle whether the “Save, Allocate and Despatch” button should be added to the sales order

Date applied: January 5, 2021

201.17.6

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix to check whether the confirmed checkbox exists when opening the purchase order line screen [“Object Reference Error”]
  • Fix to allow new commodity codes to be entered and maintained from the landed cost update per commodity code screen
  • Fix to correctly update the actual totals for landed costs when using landed cost templates

Date applied: January 5, 2021

201.16.5

Issues Resolved Pre-release Hot Fix Enhancements

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix to save Distribution tab on supplier
  • Fix when updating PO lines and the user would get an error message when they were saving a comment line [“Unable to cast object of type ‘Sage.Accounting.POP.PPOPCommentLine’ to type ‘Sage.Accounting.POP.POPStandardItemLine’]

Hot Fix Enhancements
  • Added a new setting to handle whether the “Save, Allocate and Despatch” button should be added to the sales order

Date applied: January 4, 2021

201.14.5

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix when saving a container with tracking information [“Index out of range”]
  • Fix when setting a default container on a purchase order and then amending a different order and on the purchase order line the container from the previous order is pulled through
  • Fix when saving a purchase order line with landed cost templates [“Object Reference Error”]

Date applied: December 30, 2020

201.13.5

Issues Resolved New Features Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


New Features
  • New screen to update stock item default landed costs per commodity codes

Issues Resolved
  • Fix to landed costs to update PO line landed costs when selecting a template

Date applied: December 24, 2020

201.12.5

Issues Resolved Pre-release Hot Fix Enhancements

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix when selecting a landed cost template using the old advanced enable string [“Object Reference Error”]
  • Fix for container manager import and updating POP line status when it is associated with a container

Hot Fix Enhancements
  • Updated the stock matrix entry screen to allow the user to add “Commodity Code”, “Country of Origin” and “Weight”

Date applied: December 23, 2020

201.0.5

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved
  • Fix when adding line to a purchase order [“Unable to cast object of type ‘Sage.Accounting.POP.POPAdditionalChargeLine’ to type ‘Sage.Accounting.POP.POPStandardItemline’]
  • Fix when apportioning landed costs [“Attempted to divide by zero”]
  • Fix to not display the “Details” button when viewing a sales order
  • Fix for promised dates popup being displayed when viewing sales orders
  • Fix to not show the “Save, Allocate and Despatch” button when viewing sales orders
  • Fix to correctly set the dates on a stock transfer when using the “Stock Replenishment” screen

Date applied: December 22, 2020

201.11.5

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix when apportioning landed costs [“Attempted to divide by zero”]
  • Fix to not display the “Details” button when viewing a sales order
  • Fix for promised dates popup being displayed when viewing sales orders
  • Fix to not show the “Save, Allocate and Despatch” button when viewing sales orders
  • Fix to correctly set the dates on a stock transfer when using the “Stock Replenishment” screen
  • Fix so that landed costs templates save against the POP Order
  • Fix to update landed costs correctly when a line is saved or a template is changed
  • Fix when saving landed costs [“Specified argument was out of the range of valid values”]
  • Fix when saving a purchase order line without landed costs turned on [“Object Reference Error”]

Date applied: December 21, 2020

201.10.3

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix for calculating provisional landed costs totals when using landed cost templates

Date applied: December 17, 2020

201.9.3

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix to allow landed cost templates to be saved without values set in the percentage or value fields
  • Fix to not display landed cost messages on purchase order lines if they user is using a landed cost template

Date applied: December 11, 2020

201.8.3

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix to correctly calculate landed costs with default values and template values
  • Fix when adding line to a purchase order [“Unable to cast object of type ‘Sage.Accounting.POP.POPAdditionalChargeLine’ to type ‘Sage.Accounting.POP.POPStandardItemline’]

Date applied: December 10, 2020

201.7.3

New Features Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


New Features
  • New container manager tab on the purchase order header, which will break down the purchase order lines and display the containers they are in

Date applied: December 9, 2020

201.6.3

Issues Resolved New Features Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


New Features
  • New feature for landed cost templates

Issues Resolved
  • Imported containers are set in transaction so if it falls over through the import the one where it has fallen over won’t be imported

Date applied: December 4, 2020

201.0.4

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved
  • Fix to check standard or advanced enable strings on POP and SOP

Date applied: December 2, 2020

201.5.3

Issues Resolved Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Container import fix to set dates correctly dependant on what information was supplied through the import

Date applied: December 2, 2020

201.4.3

Issues Resolved New Features Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


New Features
  • New import for Containers

Issues Resolved
  • Fix on “Add Historical Lines” screen to handle sales orders that have only ever been set to direct to customer. The screen will now set the new line to direct to customer
  • Fix when changing the promised date on a sales order and the user selects to change the line dates too [“You have specified a delivery date that is in the past”]

Date applied: December 1, 2020

201.0.3

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved
  • Fix when saving stock item settings and a message box would popup every time “Width is in a incorrect format.”
  • Fix on “Add Historical Lines” screen to handle sales orders that have only ever been set to direct to customer. The screen will now set the new line to direct to customer
  • Fix when changing the promised date on a sales order and the user selects to change the line dates too [“You have specified a delivery date that is in the past”]

Date applied: November 18, 2020

201.3.1

Issues Resolved New Features Pre-release

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


New Features
  • Added new filters on the ‘Manage SOP Back Orders’ screen to filter by SOP line analysis codes

Issues Resolved
  • Fix when saving stock item settings and a message box would popup every time “Width is in a incorrect format.”

Date applied: November 17, 2020

201.0.2

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved
  • Fix when creating a new POPOrder and the user has no POP settings turned on. the Sage date fields would get squished up
  • Updated the stock item settings so that only the sub modules enabled get displayed

Date applied: November 2, 2020

201.0.1

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved
  • Fix when saving a purchase order line and the user does not have the “Confirmed Checkbox” setting on [“Object Reference Error”]
  • Corrected the stock item catalogue form name
  • Fix to auto populate contract amount with POP line amount if there is only one contract to select from
  • Fix for duplicate lines being created on the SiconDistPOPOrderReturnLine table when container manager is enabled

Date applied: November 2, 2020

201.0.0

New Features Important
Important Info

v20.1 Release

SICON DISTRIBUTION HAS NOW SPLIT INTO 9 SUB MODULES THESE ARE:

  • SOP MANAGEMENT
  • POP MANAGEMENT
  • RESERVES & CALL OFFS
  • FUTURE SALES
  • CONTAINER MANAGER
  • STOCK MATRIX
  • PRE ALLOCATION MANAGER
  • WAREHOUSE REPLENISHMENT
  • MATERIAL RESOURCE PLANNING

New Features
  • Future Sales – Sales Forecasting Screen – This screen creates sales forecast based on historical data. These forecasts can then be passed through to MRP.
  • Future Sales – Calculate Min Stock – New column to allow the user to manually enter the max stock quantity when updating the min value
  • SOP Management – New screen to allow the user to view invoice items when in the sales ledger transaction screen
  • SOP Management – Save, Allocate and Despatch from sales order screen
  • SOP Management – Sales order line stock item history button
  • POP Management – New screen to allow the user to view invoice items when in the purchase ledger transaction screen
  • POP Management – Warning when saving a purchase order line if it has a zero value
  • POP Management – Purchase order link stock item history button
  • POP Management – allow purchase order delivery address amendment
  • Reserves And Call Offs – SOP Reserves – When creating a SO using a sales order reserve the sales order quantity is automatically populated in the SO reserve screen
  • Reserves And Call Offs – Sales and Purchase Contracts – Contracts can be linked to specific sales/purchase contracts to allow better tracking of the contract. Prices are then pulled through from the contact to the order line
  • SOP Management – Manage SOP Back Orders screen can now be opened in view mode if there is already a user in this screen
  • Future Sales – Calculate Min Stock – New filter added for supplier analysis codes
  • POP Management – Supplier KPI’s – Multiple enhancement to the existing feature. New early band has been introduced. Ability to drill down on information further into stock items or view the KPI in a monthly breakdown screen
  • POP Management – POP Expected Delivery Screen – New columns added to the to show “Confirmed”, “Confirmed Date”, “Supplier Telephone Number”, “Expected Time”
  • Container Manager – New “Received Quantity” and “Outstanding Quantity” when viewing a container
  • Container Manager – Auto refresh the container manager list
  • Reserves and Call Offs – Sales and Purchase Contracts – New Columns displaying “Balance”, “Despatched/Received” “Invoiced” and “Outstanding Balance”
  • Reserves and Call Offs – Sales and Purchase Contracts – New contract history tab is displayed when amending contracts

Date applied: November 2, 2020

201.2.1

Pre-release Hot Fix Enhancements

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Hot Fix Enhancements
  • Updated the stock item settings so that only the sub modules enabled get displayed

Date applied: October 30, 2020

201.1.1

Issues Resolved Pre-release Hot Fix Enhancements

Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.


Issues Resolved
  • Fix to auto populate contract amount with POP line amount if there is only one contract to select from
  • Fix when posting a purchase order invoice without projects or project accounting integration turned on [“Object Reference Error”]
  • Fix for duplicate lines being created on the SiconDistPOPOrderReturnLine table when container manager is enabled
  • Fix when creating a new purchase order and the user has no POP settings turned on. the Sage date fields would get squished up

Hot Fix Enhancements
  • Added a “Balance Remaining” column on purchase and sales contracts

Date applied: October 19, 2020