Date

Version Number

Features/Fixes

November 30, 2011

12.16

•New Feature: Scanning Solutions Data Export

•Correction:    Area, Section, Sub-Section, Category, General-Category lists will now print

                         sorted by ID.

•Correction:    Petrosoft/WIS data import now has more robust import properties to clean up

                         extra characters in customer provided SKU-Master file and cleans up leading blanks from their data as well.

September 14, 2011

12.15

•New Feature: From the General Info menu, participate in a web meeting. It will allow ISS 
                           personnel to access your computer for training and other tech support.

 

•New report: Financial Category/Section report using user-selected Sections; both with and without 

                         quantities.

 

•Correction:    Added continuation headers to Fin-CSA with page-break report

June 8, 2011

12.10

ATTENTION: This version of SSP requires Alpha-5 version 10.5 or later. Click here to contact ISS for the link.

 

•New Feature: Besides printing a report as you normally would, you can now “print” to a PDF,

                         Dynamic HTML, Rich Text, Plain Text and Excel.

•New Feature: Your Company Name, slogan and logo and today’s date will appear on the Main

                         Menu for a more professional look.

•New Feature: User configurable data export of the SKU Master set. User can select fields, order

                         and file type for export file

•New Feature: Found in the Advanced Menu; posts the Captured-Data Category to the

                         SKU‑Master Department for a given SKU. Note: If the captured data contains

                         varying category data for any given SKU, the last Category used determines the

                         data assigned to the SKU-Master department.

•New Feature: Added Import of Petrosoft C-Store back Office SKU Master file.

•New Feature: Added Retail-Pro V 8.6 data export in the format RGIS generates.

•New Feature: Variable Header Reports; with this whole new set of reports, you can change the

                         header information that prints. For example, you may take a “Category by

                         Section” report to have the report headers read “Classification by Location”

                         instead. You simply type-in the substitute words for the standard wording and

                         choose the Variable-Header report you want. The headers are controlled in the

                         General Info menu.

•New Feature: From the Advanced Menu, you can check for updates to the Alpha-5 Runtime

                         program.

 

•New report: Many Variable Header Reports, both Financial and SKU based, as mentioned above.

•New report: Audit-Trail by SKU-Order. This will let you see how SKUs within the Audit-Trail

                       range were counted. It’s useful because you won’t necessarily have to recount a

                       large count for a SKU to determine if an error occurred.

•New report: Financial Section report using user-selected Sections.

 

•Correction: Some reports did not have the date continue after the first page

•Correction: Financial Category by Section without Quantity page grouping to eliminate 

                       potential blank pages.

•Correction: Financial Category prior comparison report is now in landscape mode.

                      The Category title has been added for easier reading.

•Correction: Same for Financial Category Prior Comparison report.

•Correction: Corrected “Clear” operation of Captured Data.

•Correction: Added “Clear” operation for RCD data

December 13, 2010

11.26

•New Feature: SKU-Master restore can now import text files in standard or remove-duplicates 

                         mode.

September 17, 2010

11.25

•New Feature: WIS 12-digit SKU import with 4-character Departments.

•New Feature: Opens Main-Set as an Excel file. Found in the Advanced Menu

•New Feature: Batch Export of Main Set, found in the Advanced Menu

 

•New report: SKU Master Stock vs. Actual Count with ascending Variance sorting.

 

•Correction: WIS format 11-digit SKU increased speed significantly.
•Correction: Same for WIS format 12-digit SKU.

•Correction: Crew Supervisor info was missing from some reports.

•Correction: Description sorted report with barcode.

•Correction: Description sorted report without barcode.

August 11, 2010

11.20

•New Feature: Find and Replace feature for both Data and SKU-Master tables.

•New Feature: Added Verification requirement for Clearing of Captured Data.

•New Feature: New Menu for Prior Comparison reports mentioned below

 

•New reports: Prior Comparison reports using SKU-Master Price or SKU-Master Cost for the

                          calculation

•New report: SKU/Section for SKU’s where SKU-Master Price equals Zero

•New report: SKU/Unit Serial Number for SKU’s where SKU-Master Price equals Zero

 

The report count is now a staggering 247 reports !

 

 

•Correction: Clean up of SKU/PLU with Barcode report

•Correction: removed check-for-duplicates on WIS SKU-Master Import, greatly improves speed.

•Correction: Fixed error that occurred on all Pad operations where the length of a field for a

                       record exceeded the pad-to length.

•Correction: New-SKU import for Portal V 110 removed from general use, it may now be  

                      found by scrolling down the Captured Data Menu.

July 14, 2010

11.01

•New Feature: Operations buttons to update the SKU Master logic field for all entries to your 

                          choice of True or False

•New Feature: Strip beginning characters of SKU by amount you select.

•New Feature: Strip beginning characters of PLU by amount you select.

•New Feature: Strip beginning characters of Data-SKU by amount you select.

•New Feature: Pad-PLU function menu. This will place leading zeros into the PLU field to fill up to  

                           the length you select.

•New Feature: Strip ending characters of PLU field to the length you select.

•New Feature: Clean up of operations for New-SKU importing into SKU-Master for Portal V 131.

                           Buttons are found under the SKU-Master and Advanced menus.

•New Feature: Shortcut in SKU-Master menu to the ISS website compiled SKU-Master webpage.

•New Feature: Shortcut in Advanced menu to the ISS website Software Updates webpage.

•New Feature: SKU-Master clean-up operation. It will clear data in the PLU and SM_Dept fields

                           and set to 0.00 the SM_Cost, SM_Minimum and SM_Maximum fields

•New Feature: Select up to 4 previous counts for comparison

 

 

•New report: New/user-defined SKU’s with barcode

•New report: SKU-Summary at SKU-Totals level where SKU-Master stock level is zero

•New report: SKU-Summary at Data/Entry level where SKU-Master stock level is zero

•New report: SKU-Summary at SKU-Totals level where SKU-Master Price is zero

•New report: SKU-Summary at SKU-Totals level where Collected Price is zero

•New report: SKU-Summary, compare with prior 2, 3, and 4

•New report: Financial Category, compare with prior 2, 3, and 4

•New report: Financial Section, compare with prior 2, 3, and 4

•New report: Financial Category/Section, compare with prior 2, 3, and 4

 

 

These new reports bring our report count to 215 !

 

 

•New Field: SKU-Master; SM_Stock_Percentage_Number. When using the quantity as a

                      percentage (i.e. Qty of 50 yields 50%), this will translate that to the true quantity.

                      In this case; qty=.50

•New Fields: Captured-Data; Prior-Date, Prior-Price, Prior-Qty1 and Prior-Qty2 for prior counts

                        2, 3 and 4 (10 new fields total)

 

 

•Correction: Report filter for Financial Category/Section/Area using SKU-Master Price.

•Correction: Report filter for Financial Category/Section/Area using SKU-Master Cost.

•Correction: Clean-up of MPX files on exiting the application.

•Correction: General-Category Book balance, script error on entering financial balance.

•Correction: Category, Book balance, Sales-During-Count field will now have the decimal point

                        automatically added when entering data. i.e. 123 becomes 1.23

•Correction: Category-Accounting Menu, Clear Fields, now it also erases the Sales-During-Count.

 

 

June 14, 2010

10.01

•Added ability for users to create customized data exports on-the-fly. The exports include various ASCII text (both delimited and tabular) as well as Excel, Rich Text Format (RTF) and Lotus files. These apply to both the SKU Master (item totals) level and the record (captured data) level.

 

•A user customizable data import was added for on-the-fly importing of SKU Master files.

 

•Added A SKU variance report so that discrepancies can be recounted by Section. All SKUs with a total count that varies from the expected count will have all Sections where that SKU was counted listed along with the counts for that SKU within the Section. It is in the format of an audit worksheet.

•The same applies to the Sub-Section level.

•Removed the continuation header for the reports created on May 18, 2010.

•Added Minimum and Maximum fields to SKU Master data structure.

 

•Added reports for SKU total count exceeding maximum or below minimum as indicated by the SKU Master file.

•Add unique SKU count to some SKU reports.

 

•Added a bank of single characters to the SKU Master table, for more customizable data exports.

 

•Corrected SKU/Sub-Section/Section report

 

•Moved Advanced Menu button to Main Menu’s Primary working area.

May 18, 2010

9.18

•Added two reports to the Advanced Menu. 1-Financial Category/Section/Area worksheet and
2-Financial Category/Section/Area Prior Comparison with a page break on each Area.

May 18, 2010

9.17

•Removed positive numbers only limitation of Category/General-Category Book Balance. Corrected target report for button found under Advanced menu

May 6, 2010

9.16

•Added a bank of single-characters to the fixed fields menu –found in the advanced menu. These additional characters can be used for custom data exports similar to a script rather than relying strictly on the Alpha-5 export formats. For example, you could use them to control which fields are in quotation marks or not.

 

•A small correction to the ScanShark beep SKU Master Logic field is True

April 29, 2010

9.15

•If the SKU-Master Logic field is blank, it is updated to False during restoring process. This also

applies to when duplicates are removed and for various WIS-compatible Master files import. This

was done to ensure that records are properly addressed for the setup of ScanShark logic-warning

beeps.

 

•Added two new reports. They are found in the “Advanced” Menu.

 

•After restoring a previous count (not selected as a prior), a worksheet can be generated indicating

the Categories found down to the Sub-Section Level.

 

•Also a Category/Sub-Section/Section Prior Comparison report with a page break on each Section

for those wishing to post the previous count for each Section.

April 16, 2010

9.12

•Added 4 new reports. Found in the Quality Control Menu, these reports are the Category by Sub‑Section by Section report but, in this case, the user can select which Sections are printed rather than the entire inventory. The variations are Standard, Omit Quantities, Prior Comparison and Prior Comparison Omit Quantities.

April 12, 2010

9.10

•Added ability for importing New-SKU definitions when the default path is incorrect.

 

•Added ability to set ScanShark to beep with the SKU-Master logic field is true. This is useful for flagging items such as narcotics in a pharmacy.

 

•Added a simple Audit-Trail report that has a page break after each Section. Uses include situations where audit trails are posted individually but printed en masse.

February 3, 2010

9.01

•Added ability to add the UPC check-digit to both SKU-Master and Data SKU fields.

 

•Added ability to synchronize multiple computers (Data, Categories, Sections, General Categories,

Area, Sub-Sections and SKU Masters) via a removable drive (thumb drive). This is also used to

backup and restore SSP data files when doing an upgrade

 

•Added ability to combine multiple customer files