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Are Power Forms in Customer Service for you? Session ID #100330. Lisa Tran – IT Department Andrew Musselman– IT Department. Agenda. Overview of Stoner Address book Customer management Sales order entry Technical considerations Conclusion. Stoner, Inc.
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Are Power Forms in Customer Service for you?Session ID #100330 Lisa Tran – IT Department Andrew Musselman– IT Department
Agenda Overview of Stoner Address book Customer management Sales order entry Technical considerations Conclusion
Stoner, Inc • Stoner supplies retail packaged goods, aerosol and bulk cleaners and lubricants to customers across the USA and internationally factory-direct and through distributors. Serving more than 6,000 manufacturers, service businesses, government agencies, and universities
Single screen simplified entry • Buttons on top and bottom of screen • Ability jump back and forth to enter data • Yahoo or other web lookup Pro of Power Form Customer
Business Unit limited to 1 value • Address book without customer master can’t be viewed • No Delete available • Other fields you might require missing (payment instrument) Cons of Power Form Customer
All information about a customer is at fingertips • Lots of new features – activities, attachment, opportunity, etc. • Buttons on top and bottom of screen • Ability jump back and forth to enter data Pro of Power Form Customer
Busy screens, lots of tabs & links • Definite user learning curve • Have to remember to click save on each tab • Sales order screen only shows open orders • Search screen doesn’t allow search on zip and other info Cons of Power Form Customer
Header info like payment method, delivery instruction, po can be changed • Summary available without leaving order details • Quick links to info instead of form/row exit Pro of Sales Entry
Ability jump back and forth to enter data • Calls all same master business functions and processes as P4210 Pro of Sales Entry
Busy screens, lots of tabs & links • Definite user learning curve • Edit full header has weird consequences • Some features not available Cons of Sales Entry
Transfer Orders • Credit orders from history • Customer Self Service • Row Security on zero costs Cons of Sales Entry
Processing options – uses processing options for p4210 in combination with P42101 • For Customer (P90CA080) – there is a program with common processing options P01350 that also works with processing option of other programs represented Technical Considerations
Each tab section is a sub form and can have different business views and options • Tab stops across sub forms are very difficult • Can’t preview or run on a fat development client, must generate to Java Technical Considerations
Mixture of fields from lots of tables on power form • Sometimes things that worked in local java did not work after package build and deploy to java server Technical Considerations
There is a lot of power and flexibility in new forms • User learning curve • Complexity makes development more difficult • With minor changes to fix things that don’t fit Stoner, it was a good decision to migrate to power forms Conclusion
Stoner, Inc 1070 Robert Fulton Highway Quarryville, PA 17566 Lisa Tran 717-786-7355 x3107 ltran@stonersolutions.com Andrew Musselman 717-786-7355 x3131 amusselman@stonersolutions.com Contact Information
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