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Overview

Managing inventory is a important part of maintaining your business operations, with Rx-Inventory you have ease of access to all kinds of different tools, and functions to help you better manage your frames, frame parts, and miscellaneous items.

The main window used to mange your inventory can be found by navigating to the following: Rx-Inventory → SKUs

Relevant Permissions

When it comes to frame inventory items there are many relevant permissions that need to be granted in order to properly manage the inventory. Below you’ll find the list of relevant permissions.

All permissions can be found by navigating to Rx-Hub → Roles → (Select Relevant Role) → Rx-Inventory Section

SKU

This part of the permissions allows control over creating, updating, viewing, deleting, and mass updating inventory items.

Filtering/Sorting Items

Navigating and finding specific inventory items is a fundamental part of managing your inventory. We can easily find the desired item by using the provided filtering and sorting tools on the SKU page.

We can filter our inventory item by using the two menu bars displayed at the top of the SKU page.

The top most section defines what status we wish to view (You can view what each status means in the Item Category Definitions section). The second section displayed above allows you to filter what item type you wish to see. By using both of these tools together you can easily narrow down the list items displayed on screen.

Creating New Items

Creating new inventory items is an easy task. To start, navigate to the appropriate SKU page Rx-Inventory → SKUs. From here to start the process we simply need to click on the Create button located near the top of the page

Now that we’ve clicked on the create button, you will be redirected to the inventory item creation page. From here we can enter values to all the relevant fields that are part of an item. Once this step is complete simply hit the Create button located at the bottom of the page and your new item will appear!

Note

Not all fields are required to complete the creation process, the fields that must be present are denoted with relevant error text below the field box.

Generating UPC

You are able to generate a UPC when creating or updating an SKU. You can set up the starting sequence in the Settings → Configuration page.

To generate a UPC, you can just click on the barcode icon on the right side of the UPC field.

Updating Existing Items

To update the fields on an existing item we simply have to navigate to the SKU page (Rx-Inventory → SKUs) and click on the line item (or the pencil on the right hand side of the line) to open up the modification menu.

Once we’re in the SKU item modification page, we can make any changes we need to by simple clicking on the field and changing its values. Once we’ve made all our modifications simply click the Update button located at the bottom of the page.

Frame Associations Section

When viewing an inventory item you’ll find a list of important information about Warehouses, Purchase Orders, Vendor Returns, Transactions, Price List, and any User Defined Field the item is part of.

You can find this section by navigating to Rx-Inventory → SKUs → Selecting any Item, the section will be located at the bottom of the page. By changing the menu selected at the top we can view different pieces of information.

Warehouse

The Warehouses section displays all warehouse the item belongs to. This has important information about the quantities you have on hand, the cost of the item, the vendor, and more.

Add to Warehouse

Adding inventory items to warehouse is an easy task. To begin the process, ensure you have the Warehouse Tab selected at the bottom of the page, and simply click the Add to Warehouse Button

Once you’ve clicked the Add to Warehouse button, you’ll notice a menu open. Select a warehouse and fill all the required fields with the appropriate information. The final step is to click the Submit button located at the bottom and you’ll have successfully added the item to your warehouse!

Stock Transfer

Update Frame-Warehouse Information

Updating the frame warehouse information can easily be done. From the SKUs Warehouse section simply click the Edit symbol on the right hand side of the warehouse you which to make modifications.

From here you’ll notice a new menu is displayed on screen. You can make all the modifications you wish, once you’ve done so simply click the Submit button located at the bottom of the menu, this will finalize and save all your changes.

Purchase Orders

Vendor Returns

Transactions

Price Lists

Use Defined Fields

Definitions

In this section, you can find descriptions of all the relevant fields and statuses associated to an inventory item.

Item Status Definitions

Each inventory item has one of the following categories associated to it.

Category

Description

Usable

A usable item is any active item, or any item with a quantity in a warehouse (including backordered quantities)

Un-Usable

Un-usable items are discontinued, on order, or inactive items, as well as any item that isn’t part of a warehouse

Active

Active items have their status marked as active. This means these items are available and still in use in production.

Inactive

Inactive items have their status marked as inactive. This means these items are no longer used in production.

Discontinued

Discontinued items have their status marked as discontinued. This means these items typically are no longer manufacturer by the suppliers.

On Order

On Order items have their status marked as on order. This means there is currently an active purchase order/transfer that includes this item.

Back Ordered

Back Ordered items have their status marked as backordered. This means these items are on order but are temporarily unavailable from the supplier.

Recalled

Recalled items have their status marked as recalled. This means these items have been request to be returned to their suppliers. (Typically these items are on a Vendor Return)

Item Fields Definitions

Below you can find the fields associated to an inventory item and its description.

Field

Description

Part Type

This field defines the type of item. (Whole, Front, Temple, Bridge, Clip, Side Shield, Miscellaneous)

Name

The name associated to the item

Manufacturer

The manufacturer that makes the item

Gender

The gender the item was designed to be worn by

Collection

The collection the item belongs to

Brand

The brand of the item

Model

The model of the item

Class

The class of the item (Standard or Safety)

Print Sticker Template

The template used when printing the SKU label (The template must be an XML file and saved on the RX-XML folder in your Rx-Universe directory

Material

The material the item is made of

Color

The color of the item

Edge Type

The edge type of the frame. (This is provided by the LMS)

A

The horizontal width of each lens at its widest point of the lens within the frame

B

The vertical height of the lenses at the widest point of the lens within the frame

ED

The longest diagonal distance inside the frame edges in mm

REQ BC

The requested base curve for the item

Min BC

The smallest accepted base curve that will fit in the frame

UPC

The universal product code for the item. This is the code printed on the barcode label.

Manufacturer UPC

This is the univesal product code used by the manufacturer to identify this item

Cost

The cost of item charged by the supplier

MSRP

The minimum price the item should be sold at

Suggested Retail Price

The suggested price by the supplier

Price Group

The price group that the frame is a member of

Trace

The trace of the frame

Status

The status on the item in the inventory

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