v1.41 (16th December 2001)

.h4 Features

• The ability to build products from ingredients. This is useful for pharmaceutical manufacturing, or any other organization that buys raw materials and sells a finished product.
• Supplier repacks now have their own transaction number
• Item stock is now always up to date (Or almost always- If another user is editing an item while you issue or receive stock for that item, the transaction will proceed, and mSupply will check every 60 seconds for the item to become available, and will then update the stock). Note that the stock for each item line is always correct.
• The find transaction window has been redesigned, as some users found the old window unclear (although it did allow for very fast entry. There is now a separate field to enter the number of recent invoices or the invoice number. If there is information in both fields, the invoice number field will be given priority. (This means that when searching for an invoice number, you don’t need to clear the “number of recent transactions” field first).
• The is now an “export” command in the file menu. You can export information from almost any table. You can save export projects which define the fields you want to export, and quickly recall the projects from a popup menu.
• You can now specify the supplier invoice margin item-by-item, rather than only for each supplier. There is a new setting in the preferences to determine which value will be used if there is both an item and a supplier margin specified.
• Each transaction can have it’s own category. The list of categories can be defined in the preferences. Supplier transactions and customer transactions have their own categories.
• Abbreviations: When entering directions for an item, any abbreviations entered will be expanded to the full text. The list of abbreviations and their expansion can be edited by the user.
• Custom labels can be sorted before printing.
• Item usage now also shows standard deviation as well as the mean for the months usage chosen
• A new “item usage” report enables a concise print out of usage history.
• Displaying item usage is now much faster.
• Generating orders has been sped up dramatically.
• Items can now be excluded from orders permanently.
• Forecasting support is improved by :
• A new report to show usage statistics for selected items.
• Orders can now use the last three years usage data to evaluate required quantities.
• Standard deviation as well as monthly usage mean is available for each item.
• A customer receipts module has been added. This uses an “open-item” system of accounting to record the exact amount outstanding on each invoice. (This module does not affect the functioning of mSupply if you do not turn it on in the preferences)
• New reports based on the account status of each customer:
• Debtors report lists all customers with outstanding balances
• Customer Statements prints a statement for each customer with an outstanding balance.
• A bonus stock system has been added. This allows issuing bonus stock to customers automatically, based on the bonus formula entered for each item.(This module does not affect the functioning of mSupply if you do not turn it on in the preferences)
• Passwords are now stored in the data file using 512 bit RSA encryption for added security.
• Export of finalized invoices is now optional. It is turned on or off on the “invoices 1” tab of the preferences.
• Each item can now be assigned to a department, allowing you to group items, and produce reports based on those groups.
• Items can now be held so they are only issued on builds, or they are not issued at all.
• Items lines (that is, batches) can now be held (quarantined) on a per-batch basis
• Invoice windows now remember their position, and open in the position they were closed in.
• Export of invoices and orders in HTML format that can be viewed by any web browser, most Word Processors and Spreadsheets.
• Automatic attachment of invoices to e-mails, either as an electronic invoice or as an HTML invoice.
• E-mails can now have attachments, CC and BCC addresses.