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Electronic Want Listing. How to take the work out of ordering from Textbook Wholesalers While getting MORE books. Advantages to Electronic Want Listing. Fast turnaround from sending lists to receiving acknowledgments Work Wholesalers during off hours Accuracy, no more hand data entry
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Electronic Want Listing How to take the work out of ordering from Textbook Wholesalers While getting MORE books
Advantages to ElectronicWant Listing • Fast turnaround from sending lists to receiving acknowledgments • Work Wholesalers during off hours • Accuracy, no more hand data entry • Send 2 or 3 Want Lists per day per Wholesaler
Work Flow Class Adoptions ISBN Substitutions Create Want-list Receive Confirmation Edit Want List Transmit Want List
Create From Adoptions • Choose a Bin and hold date for each Wholesaler when you start ordering for a term •Edit Bin and hold dates via Order Processing menu option 9. Modify Vendor Bin & Hold
Select Want List to Transmit Note that Sent & Confirmed fields are blank for most recent want list
Back to Transmit Want List to Verify that Transmition was successful
Check for Successful Transmition Note Sent field is now filled in, Confirmed is empty
Wholesaler Response Times • MBS 24 X 7 10 minutes for Acknowledgment • NBC Monday – Friday 8 am to 7 pm Saturday 8 am to 12 pm 30 to 45 minutes for Acknowledgment • Follett Monday – Friday 7 am to 6 pm 30 to 45 minutes for Acknowledgment ** All times are Central Time Zone
Retrieving MBS Want List Must wait approximately 5 minutes at this point when retrieving a Want List from MBS for process to complete
Back to Transmit Want List to Verify that Retrieval was successful
Checking for Successful Download of Acknowledgement Note Confirmed field is now fill in
The PO’s • The same PO # is used for each Wholesaler per Bin & Hold date • PO is updated after every successful Acknowledgement download • You may check each PO via order processing menu option 24. Add or Adjust PO
Substitute ISBN’s • If the wholesaler sends an ISBN that can not be matched to one on the want list a substitute ISBN file is created and a pop up box will occur during the Acknowledgement download allowing you to print the substitute information. • Substitute information is accessible via menu 24. Substitute ISBN menu option
Assigning Substitute ISBN’s If available a title will be displayed for each unmatched ISBN Enter Adopted ISBN #’s and post to assign ISBN’s
Effects of Assigning Adopted ISBN’s to Substitutes • Once you POST the substitute file the Open To Buy (OTB) for the adopted ISBN will be reduced • The substitute ISBN will appear on the PO • If you leave the Adopted ISBN field empty, no adjustment to OTB will occur • The substitute ISBN will appear on the PO • Is this how you handle substitutes, or would you like the Adopted ISBN to appear on the PO instead of the substitute?
Create New Bin & Hold dates •Change you Bin & Hold dates here •Answer New PO Number with a Y if you want to assign a new PO # to this Bin & Hold date
Bin & Hold Cut Off Dates • Watch Bin & Hold cut off dates, want lists sent to Wholesalers after cutoff will not be accepted by the Wholesaler • You can still send the Want List but they will not send an Acknowledgment