Mobile inventory

In the LS One 2019.1 release, the LS Retail OMNI server has gone through significant changes to improve performance. The functionality of the mobile inventory app has also been reworked to make the inventory process more intuitive from the user's perspective. It is now possible to follow most of the inventory workflow from the app without waiting for actions to be performed in the back office.

Information about using the mobile inventory app with LS One can be found in our on-line help.

 

Stock counting

You can now create a stock counting document directly in the inventory app. When several mobile devices are used to do a stock counting for the same store, all counted items are sent to the same stock counting journal in the back office if they are opened from the same stock counting template.

All you need to do in the back office is to create a stock counting template before starting the stock counting, and post the stock counting journal when all counting is done and has been sent from the mobile devices back to LS One.

The stock counting template can contain a filter which will automatically add items to the stock counting document when it is created in the app.

Read more about stock counting with the mobile inventory app in the on-line help.

 

Purchasing

The entire purchasing workflow including receiving the goods can now be performed from the mobile inventory app.

In the back office is to create a purchase order template. Then you work with purchase worksheets in the app which are created from the purchase order template.

When the purchase worksheet is posted from the app, LS One automatically creates one purchase order per vendor in the back office.

Just as with stock counting, it is possible to add a filter to the purchase order template that will automatically populate new purchase worksheets with items from the filter.

Read more about purchasing with the mobile inventory app in the on-line help.

 

Receiving purchased goods

Receiving goods in the mobile inventory app can now a easily be done as a part of the purchasing workflow without the need for any action in the back office.

This is achieved by a new setting on the purchase order template to automatically create one goods receiving document per purchase order when the purchase worksheet is posted from the app.

Read more about receiving purchased goods with the mobile inventory app in the on-line help.

Store transfers

Transfer orders can now be created, sent and received from the mobile inventory app.

Read more about store transfers in the mobile inventory app in the on-line help.

 

New or updated configurations

Inventory templates

The inventory template configurations have been simplified and most documents and worksheets in the Inventory app will have the same configurations so that the user has the same experience regardless of what kind of document or worksheet they are working on.

All Inventory app related settings (or OMNI settings) that are the same for all types of documents and worksheets are now on the same tab in the Inventory template card. Any settings that are specific for the document type will remain on their specific configuration tabs (for example Area settings for the Stock counting)

 

 

Use barcode unit of measure: If set then when scanning a barcode in the inventory app the app will use the unit set when the barcode is created otherwise the unit from the item will be used

Allow adding new lines: If set then the user is allowed to add new lines to the document in the inventory app. This would be set to false when f.ex. a stock counting template has a filter on it the user should be using for stock counting and no other items should be added to the document. If the user is allowed to add new lines the user is not asked to confirm adding the new line to the document in the application (this is a change in the inventory app behavior).

Quantity method setting and Default quantity were moved from document specific tabs and added to the "OMNI General tab" as they will be applicable to all document types in the inventory app when LS One 2019.1 will be released.

 

Functionality profile

A new configuration called Allow image import was added to the OMNI tab on the functionality profile. The inventory app has a new functionality where the user can take a picture of the item that is being worked with in the inventory app. If this setting is set to true then the app will allow the images otherwise it will not. The images will be saved to the Image bank that already exists in the LS One system. A new type of Inventory images has been created so the user can search for these images.

 

Image bank

A new type was created to mark the Inventory images that have been added to the Image bank. This type has been added to the search filter and when an inventory image is deleted from the item bank the user is notified that it is connected to an existing stock counting journal (for example) and if the user decides on deleting the image anyway the connection between the document and the image is also deleted.

 

Other improvements

Issue number	Support issue	Description
ONE-11287		Fixed an issue allowing items to be added to a transfer order when receiving in the mobile inventory app.
ONE-10633		Default vendor in the purchase worksheet tab from inventory templates is now inside a group box for purchase orders.
ONE-10609		Added new settings to the purchase order/worksheet inventory template that decides if a goods receiving will be automatically created when a purchase order is created based on a template or when posting a worksheet. Another setting decides if the created goods receiving document will also be auto populated with the items from the purchase order.
ONE-10515		Fixed an issue causing the unit of measure's factor to be 1 in the mobile inventory templates.
ONE-10510		Fixed an issue causing transfer orders for other stores to be visible in the mobile app.
ONE-10499		Fixed an issue causing the mobile inventory app to allow sending transfer orders with items having sent quantity equal to 0.
ONE-10450		Fixed an issue where transfer order templates were not replicated to the mobile inventory app
ONE-10440		Removed batch size setting from stock counting templates. Changed the auto populate receiving setting to a check box in the transfer order templates.
ONE-10411		Transfer order lines are now saved through stored procedures when sent from the mobile inventory app.
ONE-10400		Fixed an issue where opening a goods receiving document in the mobile inventory app would only display the first 100 items.
ONE-10385		Added system settings for omni job update interval and maximum retry counter.
ONE-10379		New items can now be added to Purchase Worksheets without seeing existing items in the mobile inventory app.
ONE-10378		Sending or posting goods receiving documents from OMNI is now done through stored procedures.
ONE-10377		Purchase worksheets can now be posted from the mobile inventory app. Moved the posting logic to Site Service.
ONE-10375		Fixed an issue where creating a stock counting, purchase order or transfer order from a filter or template with not selected filter would create the document with all items in the database.
ONE-10364		Moved label strings to a resource file to enable translations in the lookup operations of the mobile inventory app.
ONE-10362		Purchase orders and store transfer can now be created from a template.
ONE-10356		Added Change quantity option for Entering type in templates.
ONE-10346		Fixed an issue causing the wrong error message to be displayed when looking for an item that does not exists in the mobile inventory app.
ONE-10301		Fixed an issue where a stock counting journal create from the mobile inventory app would not have a description based on the template from which it was created.
ONE-10250		Fixed an issue where a purchase worksheet could not be posted if it was created from two devices and one of the item had no vendor attached.
ONE-7759		Added quick scan support for store transfers.
ONE-7668		Removed PriceCheck and PriceUpdate operations from the mobile inventory buttons.
ONE-7663		Fixed an issue where goods receiving documents would not display the correct number of items and quantity left in the mobile inventory app.
ONE-7633		Added new operations in the mobile inventory buttons for creating purchase orders and transfer order from templates, checking unsent templates and documents and checking current information about the store and terminal configured on the mobile device.
ONE-7632		Items can now be automatically added from a filter on the template when opening a stock counting from template in the mobile inventory app
ONE-7575		Renamed purchase price to cost price in item lookup on the mobile inventory.