Ostendo Mobility - Freeway
The Freeway solution has moved along again very quickly and most users will be on either Ostendo update 219 or 223 or 225. There might be the odd user on 221.
Existing features include:
- Sales Quotation
- Sales Order
- Purchase Order
- Job Order
- Delivery Order
- Internal data capture
Some features recently released and now refined in Ostendo Update 225 APK 474 are:
Freeway Warehousing
In essence the key framework objects have been developed for Picking, Receipting, Adjusting, Counting and Transferring Stock. In update 225 Development-X have released the Sales Delivery Picking option (the other elements will be released over the next number of months). There are a few key features to mention:
- The current Delivery Picking functionality (and all other warehousing functions) are real-time so that stock and the lines left to be picked are displayed and refreshed real-time. This also allows for multiple pickers for the same order at the same time.
- The ability to define whether the mobility user/employee is using barcode scanning for picking, or they still wish to go paperless and use a tablet/smart device with manual selection
- The ability to define the picking sequence/order of the lines with the delivery
- The ability to restrict the picking of stock to specific warehouses
- The ability to define ‘Picking Classes’, and have those classes linked to products, and then to users/employees. An example of where this might be used, is where there are products that can only be picked with a forklift – you could then restrict only users/employees with a forklift licence to pick those products.
- The ability to scan a barcode representation of the product code, product barcode, serial number, or batch number.
- The ability to flag a product as ‘Single Scan’ – this means that on once scanned the product is automatically picked with a quantity of 1
- The ability to setup a barcode quantity in the ‘Item Barcodes’ screen – this caters for cases/inners/outers where the barcode presents the code and a quantit.
- The ability to define the minimum number of days left on a expiry dated product for all customers, or against a specific customer. This then prevents the user/employee from picking that stock line.
- The ability to drill down on a 'to be picked' line to display a picture of the product and/or the stock levels available
- The ability to view what has been picked for that delivery, and be able to delete a specific picked variant, in case of mistakes.
Additional Freeway Warehousing functionality that is being released in the coming months:
- Container/Pallet/Carton tracking – the ability to pick against a package ID and then link that package up to 5 levels deep (i.e. a carton inside a larger carton, sitting on a pallet inside a shipping container). This will enable the generation of a delivery manifest
- Certified Standards for both products and batch numbers. The concept behind this is for where the product and or specific batch of that product is required to meet a certain defined standard to either sell to a market, or to a customer. Like the expiry date rules, the picking and /or ordering would be prevented if the product/customer combination didn’t meet the standards specified.
Freeway Inquiry/Reporting/Scorecard & Snapshots
We have developed a new module for generating Inquiry/Reporting real-time views through Freeway. There are a few key points to highlight:
- The ability to define an Inquiry pack of specific queries, linked to an employee.
- The inquiries are run real-time at a lightning fast speed.
- An Inquiry result can have a combination of a chart, scorecard (multiple KPI’s), and a listing style of output. For Customers, there is also the option of displaying an aged analysis, and for products, a stock level listing.
- The output within Freeway can be sent to a PDF file and/or emailed.
- There is the ability to take a snapshot of a portion of the inquiry display, annotate with your finger (i.e. circle, point with a line), and then also record a quick audio note (much, much faster than typing an email message) of what you have just highlighted and email both in a single action!
- Scorecard KIP’s or statistics can be defined, with highlighted conditional values (i.e. If the Daily Order Count is less than 500 then highlight the value).
- Restriction counts can be defined (i.e Top 10 Customers, Top 20 Selling Products).
- Percentage ratio bar-charts (providing for weighting of values compared to the total)
- The ability to display colour coded indicators in a listing (i.e. can be linked directly to Tracking Colours).
Freeway POS Orders
There is now the ability to create a POS Order from Freeway and have that transferred to a specified POS station. The POS Order is created (‘OnHold’ status) once the Data sheet is completed / synchronised back to Ostendo. There is a new creation style for Customers called ‘New POS Order’, and there is basically only 2 line types to add MATERIALS and NOTE. The idea of the note is to have them copy to ‘POS instructions’, this will enable the mobile user to enter details that are then displayed when pulling up the ‘OnHold’ orders at the counter, and displayed within the POS Order itself.
Note: There is also the ability to drill down on Lines created within a data sheet which streams the mobility image to the device (if defined against the product), and displays its current stock levels (the detail of which can be defined in the Employee Mobility Settings screen)
Existing Customer & Job Inquiries
- The current inquiries now have the ability to live stream any associated linked documents
Tracking Codes & Meter Readings
- The ability to force Tracking Codes & Meter Readings from the Stlye Template as a mandatory entry to force the Freeway user to select a tracking code or enter a meter reading prior to completion of the Datasheet
QR Codes
- The ability to generate QR codes (3 dimensional barcodes) within the report writer
- We will be making more use of this for Freeway (where a QR code can be generated dynamically for tagging and tracking of equipment)
POS
- The ability to change the delivery address details from within the POS Delivery screen
- The ability to define Segmented Barcode logic for scanning barcode labels printed from weigh scales. In other words where this a single barcode that embeds both the product and the quantity.
- The ability to override the picking warehouse for specific lines within a POS Order
Jobs
- The ability to roll-up contents prices from Kitsets and Task Bills to update the Job Line price (this option is mutually exclusive to the existing ‘Price Changed with Cost’.
- The ability to flag Task Names as Inactive
Sales
- The ability to alter the Sales Style (either Delivery or Counter) until lines have been picked
- The ability to define the number of days before the expiry date that products can be supplied to a customer (currently only applicable to Freeway Delivery Picking)
Assemblies
- The ability to flag Step Names as Inactive
Current Ostendo Update numbers in use by Ostendo Freeway users and corresponding Android APK number;
Ostendo Update 219 APK 329
Ostendo Update 221 APK 389
Ostendo Update 223 APK 430
Ostendo Update 225 APK 474
Ostendo
Current Version - Public Release Update 211
We are expecting a full public release at the end of May which will include Google Play for the Freeway App. Please note we are not upgrading any site to a non public release version unless you are using the Mobility module (Freeway) and or a supported client that requires a specific fix or feature improvement. We are expecting the iTunes release of Freeway approximately one to two months later.
MYOB and Reckon Accounts
Current Version - MYOB 2017.1 or V19.13
Current Version - Reckon Accounts 2017 R1
HR3
Current Version – HR3Pay 2.1.3.96
Current Version – HR3 Kiosk 2.3.5.3
We expect another full upgrade of HR3 late June
Contact Us
If you require more information on any of these software changes please give us a call on 02 4928 8500.
