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Introduction

This document provides instructions for assigning bin locations to lenses.

Use

the bin location editor to enter bin location for your stocked lenses. You can find the Bin Location Entry screen in the Editor Menu off the Lens Inventory Main Menu.

Bin locations, if present,

 print on the

work ticket to show the

stock clerk where

the lens is in the Inventory room.   The bin locations

get sent along with

lens orders, and the packing

lists get sent back from

lens vendors showing those bin locations

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You may enter bin locations for lens products based on any of the lenses characteristics including lens characteristics. Characteristics can include manufacturer, diameter range, base curve range, add power range, lens style, seg size, lens type, lens color, or even a previous bin location.

Any  lenses lenses that match  match your search  will display on the screen, showing you the current values for bin location and the new value you will be setting set for the bin location to.   If your search  has has more matches than can appear on the screen at one time, the screen will clear clears, and the  the next matches  will appear  after  you  have  accepted  the appear after you accept the changes to the screen.   If you answer No to any display, all previous screens will NOT won’t be changed, and your cursor will be placed back at returns to the search form.

Procedure

From the Optifacts main menu:

Type Select Option 9 - Inventory and press enterEnter.

Type Select Option 1 – Editor Utilities and press enterEnter.

Type Select Option 13 – Bin Location Entry and press enterEnter.

Update Bins by ‘S’:

 SKU or ‘G’: Group:

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• Press ‘S’ to assign bin location by SKUs or G SKU, or, press ‘G’ to assign a bin location locations for a group of productlenses.         

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Assigning Bin Location By SKU

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• Type Enter the option to set the stock status and press enter.
  • S – Stocked. This identifies ‘S’ Stocked - Identifies this bin as stocked inventory.
  • N – 'N’ Non-Stocked - This identifies Identifies this bin as a non-stocked inventory.
  • D – ‘D’ Don’t Change - This identifies Identifies that the bin status is not being changedchanging.

The active cursor will move moves to the SKU# field.

• Type the SKU number and press enter, Enter or scan the SKU number, the field will be populated

The field populates with the number, and the cursor

moves to the next field. The lens information

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If there is currently a bin assigned to the item, it will be shown shows in the Old Bin Loc field.

• Enter the new Bin Location Number and press enter.

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• Save the new location (Y/N)?
  • Type Y Press ‘Y’ to save the data.
  • Type N Press ‘N’ to return to the form. The changes will not be savedwon’t save.
• Press Escape to exit the screen.

Assigning Bin Location By Group

• Type Enter the option to set the stock status and press enter.
  • S – Stocked. This identifies ‘S’ Stocked - Identifies this bin as stocked inventory.
  • N – ‘N’ Non-Stocked - This identifies Identifies this bin as a non-stocked inventory.
  • D – ‘D’ Don’t Change - This identifies Identifies that the bin status is not being changedchanging.

The active cursor will move moves to the Old Bin Loc field and is , represented by an (*) an asterisk.

Change Bin Location for all Items in a Specific Bin

To change the bin location for all items in a specific bin to a new bin, perform the following:Note:

• Enter the old bin location and press enter.
• Enter the new bin location and press enter.

The items in the old bin location will be shown display in the lower half of the screen.

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• Save the new location (Y/N)?
  • Type Y Press ‘Y’ to save the data.
  • Type N Press ‘N’ to return to the form. The changes will not be savedwon’t save.
  • Type M Press ‘M’ to move to the New Location field and manually enter a location for each item.

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Change Bin Location for a

Specific Group of Items in a Specific Bin

To change a bin location by entering specific lens data, perform the following:

• Enter the old bin location or leave the ‘*’ as the default * and press enter.
• Enter the manufacturer code and press enter.
• Enter all the applicable data pressing enter after each field.
  • Mfr: Enter the desired manufacturer code.
  • Style: Enter the desired style code.
  • Seg Size: Enter the desired seg size code.
  • Mtl: Enter the desired material code.
  • Color: Enter the desired color code.
  • Type: Enter the desired type code.
  • Diam: Enter the desired diameter code.
  • X-Thick: Enter 0 if the lens is not extra thick, or enter 1 if the lens is extra thick.
  • CT: Enter the lowest center thickness range.
    to
    • To: Enter the highest center thickness for the range.
    • Base from: Enter the lowest base of the range.  Note: If the product is a finished lens, then enter the sphere power from the lowest power to the highest power.
      • To: Enter the highest base of the range.
    • Cyl. From: Enter the lowest cylinder of the range.
      • To: Enter the highest cylinder value of the range.
    • Add-U from: If the product range includes a product with an upper end, enter the lowest range.
      • To: If the product range includes a product with an upper end, enter the highest range.
    • Add-L from: Enter the minimum lower add.  Note: Single Vision has no add Add power. For Single Vision, Press Enter twice to move to the Side: field.
      • To: Enter the maximum lower add.
    • Side Side:
      • Enter L - left lens only, or
      • Enter R - right lens only, or
      • Enter B - single vision product only, or
      • Leave as * - all products. 
  • Enter the new bin location and press enter location (alpha or numeric characters, up to 6 digits).
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  • Save the new location (Y/N)?
    • Type Y Press ‘Y’ to save the data.
    • Type N Press ‘N’ to return to the form. The changes will not be savedwon’t save.
    • Type M Press ‘M’ to move to the New Location field and manually enter a location for each item.

  Note

  Note:

  Continue to

  type Y until the entire inventory listing has been viewed.Note: Continue to type Y until

  press ‘Y’ until you have viewed the entire inventory listing

  has been viewed

  .

  • Press Escape to exit the screen.

  
  

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