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Vanguard Industries

Who: Vanguard Industries located in McPherson, KS. The IT contact is John Danley.

Why: Modified standard IFS programs to meet Vanguard specific requirements.

What: eNSYNC has provided Vanguard with the following critical modifications to meet Vanguards specific application requirements.

Pricing

IFS 1999 was modified to allow Vanguard to add a level of discount pricing groups based on quantity purchase price breaks. This was necessary as in the plumbing industry discounts are given in the form of “multipliers” applied to quantity purchases. eNSYNC redesigned the custom table and uplifted it to IFS 2002.

In addition, the code was modified to allow a discount to be modified at the customer order line level. Modification of discounts during order entry is not standard in IFS. In the Vanguard mod a CSR may change the “multiplier” populated based on the price break table and apply at the order line level. In addition, they may freeze the discounting on the line to prevent further changes.
All of this fits in the hierarchy of discount application within standard IFS.

A new enhancement was added by eNSYNC to IFS 2002. The “multiplier” function will only work if a value is populated in a new field in the customer info. If this field is blank then standard IFS discounting functions are applied. This was requested by Vanguard as they are preparing to move from the plumbing wholesale market into the home improvement market.

Rightfax

Modified the printer call code to allow the user to flag Order Confirmations, Invoices, and PO’s to print and fax automatically.

Upgrade of Existing Reports

Many reports were customized for Vanguard in IFS 1999. eNSYNC is making those reports IFS 2002 compliant. (not an easy task, given the rewrite in pricing functions in the 2001 version). In addition, Vanguard has ask for additional IFS report customizations.