Items can be set up two ways for Fulfillment Houses. There are common items, set up at the fulfillment house database master level and copied to the fulfillment house customer. There are also private items, set up exclusively for use by either the fulfillment house database master or a fulfillment house customer.
Enter both common items and private items for this database master. Set the Common Item flag to on for all items that will be used at both the fulfillment house database master instance, and the fulfillment house customer instance. Common items can only be maintained at the fulfillment house database master level. For more information on common items, see the Common Items section.
For items that will only be used in the fulfillment house database master, leave the Common Items flag set to off.
Run this program to copy all common items to the fulfillment house customer instances. This program should be run when a new fulfillment house customer is created.
Set up general ledger posting templates to post common inventory transactions to the general ledger.
Run this program to copy all inventory transactions for common items to the fulfillment house database master instance. This program should be run periodically to accurately track common inventory usage.
Enter items that will only be used at the fulfillment house customer level for this specific customer. Common items cannot be set up at this level.
Set up general ledger posting templates to suppress common inventory transactions from posting to the general ledger. Since postings for common inventory are created at the fulfillment house database master level, they should not be generated here.
Enter the billing line types for use in fulfillment billing. The following billing types come with the system and should not be deleted: CSO, FRT, RCV, INV, and BIN.
Create and maintain project billing groups to determine calendar collection periods.
As the fulfillment house customer, define fulfillment billing lines. These billing lines are used to generate billing transactions for the fulfillment house customer project.
As the fulfillment house customer, collect counts for billing transactions according to the billing lines set up in program PMFM, Fulfillment Project Billing Maintenance, for the fulfillment house customer project.
As the fulfillment house customer, confirm counts and create billing transactions. These transactions are then written to the customer project line.
As the fulfillment house database master, bill the customer for the generated billing amount.
As the fulfillment house customer, view collected counts for billing transactions.