POS Technical Documents
Inventory Count using RMS and the Falcon 320 Batch Terminal
COLLECTING INVENTORY DATA WITH THE FALCONInsert battery and power on the Falcon
1. Falcon will boot and stop at PSC INC screen. As the screen instructs, Press ENTER to continue.
2. You will see the PAL main menu. Press F1 to enter the INVENTORY Option
3. Select F2 for Two Prompts
4. Press F1 to collect data. First prompt will be ITEM. Scan or key in the item number. Cursor will automatically go to QUANTITY. Enter quantity. Press Enter. Cursor will automatically cycle back to ITEM for next item entry. Continue this process until all data is collected.
5. If at any time you would like to review the items and quantities you have Collected on the Falcon, press F1 (bottom of screen always gives you all options you have at any time). ESC takes you back.
6. When all items are collected, press F10 to exit to the Inventory screen and leave the Falcon at this screen. Your choices should be collect, send and delete. You will now need to upload the text file to your PC.
UPLOAD COLLECTED DATA TO PC
1. Install XFER32 V141 ON YOUR PC. Go to this link http://na.psc.com/html/downloads.htm. You will have a drop down box to SELECT PRODUCT. Select the Falcon 310. Select English as the language. Once these are selected, you will have choices in the 3rd box. Select software updates and click GO
2. Download the XFER32 V1.41 utility. Once this has downloaded, open the zip file and double click on the setup.exe. Follow the on screen instructions on your PC to install. NOTE: ALWAYS USE DEFAULTS DO NOT CHANGE ANY SELECTIONS.
3. Connect the cradle to your PC serial port with provided cable part # 00-884-32
4. Turn on the Falcon and place in cradle. You should still be at the collect, send, delete screen.
5. On your PC, go to start/programs/xfer32 and click on XFER32
6. Click on the SETUP
7. Select your com port, set baud rate to 38400, set Protocol to Xmodem. Click OK.
8. Click on RECEIVE FILES.
9. You will be prompted to enter name your file. Type inv.txt in the filename box and click open
10. IMMEDIATELY PRESS F2 (send) on the Falcon. Falcon will beep and Xfer32 on PC will go back to main screen.
11. On the Falcon, you will be prompted to erase data. Since your file is now on the PC, you can press Y to erase on the Falcon or N if you want to wait.
NOW YOU ARE READY TO IMPORT THE DATA INTO RMS
Importing Inventory File Into RMS
1. Launch Store Operations Manager program. Choose Physical Inventory from the Inventory menu option, and then click New.
2. Choose the selection to create a new blank physical inventory count for manual entry. Click OK.
3. Enter a Ref. Number and Description.
4. Click Import File to open the File Import Wizard.
5. Click Next at the welcome screen.
6. Browse to the .TXT file located at c:\pdtfiles and choose the Character delimited (TAB, CSV) file type. Click Next.
7. Choose the comma in the Field Delimiter drop down list.
8. Enter 1 in the box for Start import at line: box.
9. Match the Item Lookup Code and Quantity to the appropriate field by entering 1 beside item look up code and 2 beside quantity. Leave count date to 0. Click Next.
10. Select which item import option you wish to use. When importing items, Store Operations will check the item in the file with the items listed in the Physical Inventory Count window. If you choose to Update Matching Items Only, items that exist in the file and in the Physical Inventory Count window will be edited. If you choose to Update Matching Items and Add New Items, Store Operations will edit the counted quantity for items listed in the Physical Inventory Count window and add items to the Physical Inventory Count list as long as the item lookup code already exist in the Store Operations database.
NOTE: This option will not add items to the database if they do not already exist. If you try to import an item into the Physical Inventory Count Window that does not exist in the database, the status column on the Preview Import Results window will display an error.
11. Select the appropriate quantity option to Add to Existing Counts or Replace Existing Counts. Click Next.
12. The Print Import Results window will display the items in the file with the appropriate status. Click Import to edit/add items to the Physical Inventory Count window.
13. Once imported, you can add to or delete items from the Physical Inventory Count window. You can also print the Detailed Physical Inventory Report or calculate quantities.