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What's New in SunSystems 5.2.1 SP1 |
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Page 1 of 2 Just upgraded Sun 5.1.5 SP1 to 5.2.1 SP1 and was positively surprised by new nice features such as automatic journal deletion in a ledger entry form or business unit backup/restore function. Read more about nice new functionality you will find in Sun 5.2.1 SP1.
What’s New in SunSystems 5.2.1
The following functionality was introduced with SunSystems 5.2.1:
SunSystems Basics
* Registered User, Application User Name, and Database Name have been added to
the Current System Defaults dialog.
Form Designer
* Parent Bg Colour – a new property has been added enabling you to set the
background colour of a selected form element to match the background colour of the
parent control used.
Drill Association Designer
* Refresh Filters – a new button has been added allowing you to refresh current filters.
For example, if you create a filter to be used in a drill, click this button and the new
filter appears in the list of filters.
Reporting
* Report Designer and Data Source Designer applications are now available via a
separate installation. As such they are invoked from the Start menu.
* These applications can be added to Navigation Manager using Navigation Manager
Editor. The executables are erd.exe and DataSourceDesigner.exe
respectively. See Navigation Manager Editor Help for more information.
System Administration
* Backup and Restore of individual Business Units – a new function Business Unit
Backup & Restore (BUBCK) is available allowing you to backup and restore tables
for specific business units.
* Business Unit specific background colours on forms – this is set up using the new
field Form Background Colour on Business Unit Setup (BUS). See also Form
Designer changes above.
* Business Unit Setup (BUS) – new fields have been added to Business Unit Setup to
restrict access for zone and location records.
Data Access Groups – on Business Unit Setup (BUS) the Financials
Reports/Inquiries flag now controls all access to data including transaction entry and
static data maintenance processes. Previously, this option did not control transaction
entry and static data maintenance processes that applied any restrictions determined
by Data Access Groups and Operator Group miscellaneous permissions entry flags,
irrespective of the setting.
To enable Data Access Group control within the Financials module, the Financials
Reports/Inquiries flag must be set after upgrade from a previous version of
SunSystems.
* Customer Credit Check and Overdue Invoice Check – a new field, Credit Check, has
been added to Customer Setup (CUS), which enables credit checking to be carried
out on a customer before entering a sales order.
* An Employee Code can now be linked to an Operator Id. This field must be added to
the Employee Setup (ES) form using Form Designer (FD).
* Serialization – Cost Types Setup (CTS) has been moved from the Landed Costs
option to the Inventory Management module.
Financials
* Financials Only Implementations – It is now possible to implement only the Financials
elements of SunSystems. This reduces the number of objects within the database
and thereby the time for future upgrades of such business units. For further
information, see Administrator Help >> Financials Administration >> Financials Only
Implementations.
* Journal Notes - Journal Notes allows you to add free format text to journal lines, to
record any information considered relevant but unable to be recorded elsewhere in
the system. For further information, see Financials Help >> Entering Journals and
Transactions >> Entering and Posting a Journal >> Entering Journal Notes.
* Financials Authorizations - this version of SunSystems introduces enhancements by
allowing transactions to be passed through an authorization process before final
commitment to the ledger, depending on predefined rules. The process applies to
transactions entered via Ledger Entry/Import, Payment Run, Allocations, and
Statements. For further information see Administrator Help >> Financials
Administration >> What is the Authorization Facility?
Order Fulfilment
* Receipt Note Processing – the previous Goods Receipt Note (GRN) functionality has
been replaced by new and enhanced Receipt Note (RN) processing. The definitions
of transaction stages, and the actions that can take place at each stage, have been
changed. Therefore, you are strongly advised to review the setup of all your
Purchase and Movement Types, and associated Ledger Interfaces, to ensure that
the configuration continues to meet the needs of your organization.
The main changes are:
* The relevant functions have been redesigned in order to minimise entry for the
most frequent purchase receipts.
* Receipt Note processing can be used in purchase and/or inventory
serializations.
* The GRN Entry stage has been replaced by the RN Entry/Matching stage,
which also includes inspection of the items. This stage is mandatory if RN
processing is required.
The GRN Inspection stage has been replaced by the RN Transfer stage, which
allows you to transfer items from a temporary receiving location into an
inventory location.
* Movement orders can only have the RN Entry/Matching stage set up and a
separate movement transfer transaction should be created if any subsequent
transfers are required.
* Receipt Notes can record the receipt of services, charges and non-goods type
items, as well as inventory items.
* Business Rules can be set for the RN process.
* Analysis Codes can be entered or amended at the RN Entry/Matching stage.
* Ad hoc receipts are no longer allowed.
* New entries on Navigation Manager have been created – Receipt Note Entry
(RNE), Receipt Note Inspect (RNI), Receipt Note Transfer (RNT), RN Control
Desk – IM (RNQ), and RN Control Desk – PM (RNQP).
* Customer Credit Check/Overdue Invoice Check – you can now perform a credit
check/overdue invoice check for a customer before raising a sales order, by selecting
the Credit Check action on the Customer Setup (CUS) form. This enables you to
determine if a sales order will pass or fail checking when the sales order is raised.
* Purchase Approvals – in Approval Table Setup (ATS) you can now add lines with no
DAG approvals defined. When raising a purchase order or purchase invoice, these
lines are ignored and are not held.
* Landed Costs – various minor changes have been made to Landed Costs
functionality in order to improve its usability.
* Allocations – the Allocation Stage and Allocation By Stage fields have been removed
from the Inventory Business Setup (IBS) form. This functionality is now only available
on the Movement Type Setup (MTS) and Sales Type Setup (STS).
* Inventory Inquiry (II) – you can now use Inventory Inquiry to view historical and
projected movement transactions.
* Inventory Count - various minor changes have been made to Inventory Count
functionality in order to improve its usability. Also, you can now create counts for
item/location combinations that are overdue for counting. An empty count can now
have lines added to it.
* Serial Number Maintenance (SNM) – this is a new function that enables you to
maintain serial number data.
* Order Fulfilment Imports (OFI) – this function has now been replaced by SunSystems
Connect (SSC) Components.
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