Release Notes - 3.1

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Release 3.1

Included in this VISCO release is the following
enhanced
functionality:

Container Information:

The Center to all Container Management - Key functionality which wa
once provided only through separate screens can now
be accessed
directly from the Container Information screen.
Users can Create In Transit, Receive to Warehouse,
Inventory
Adjust and Delete Ventures all with separate links
and selections
made directly from Container Information. This one
screen has
now become the virtual epicenter for all Container
maintenance in VISCO.

Invoice Maintenance Redesign - The new Contract
Management
function allows trading companies and brokers the
ability to
cut data entry in half. This new functionality
allows users to
add, edit or delete miscellaneous charges and edit
general
invoice information in the familiar VISCO webpage
format. No
longer will management of invoice information be
done through MS Excel,
but we have included a new page where these changes
can be
made instead called “Invoice Maintenance”
Simplifying the
Container/Venture Screens - After careful review,
the team agreed
that a redesign of the Container and Venture menus
was
necessary. We choose to reduce the amount of screens
and
completely remove the separate “Transactions” menu
for In
Transit and Warehouse work. The Warehouse transfers
have also
found a new home in the inventory section. We hope
you
appreciate this design, if you have any additional
suggestions
we will be happy to consider them during future
interface
redesigns.

Turn Quote into Sales Order – Available to all
VISCO
customers, a user can select a Quote to copy from
during
SO Assign (similar to PO and SO copy) or from the
Quote
menu can choose to “Create Sales Order” from a
Quote.

Contact Management Updates – Contact grouping,
addresses and
remarks are now available for each contact in VISCO.
These columns are also
available in the Contact scan upon request.

Cost Entry Enhancements – There are new ways to
distribute
costs (by Invoice, by Warehouse, by PO) as well as a
cost
comments field for each cost entered into VISCO. We
focused
on usability for this “minor upgrade” so lets clicks
should
be necessary to do cost entry than ever before.

Preallocation Lockdown – Administrators can now
decide whether
or not a Preallocation should specifically lock down
any inventory
preallocated so that it cannot be sold to another
Sales Order.
Notify your support manager if you’d like this
turned on in
your installation.

Security Enhancements – Would you like to set your
User
Passwords to expire after a certain amount of time?
If so, how
long should it before they expire?

View Map Link – Links to Mapquest with a pre-filled
address
based on any standard US based address in the VISCO
system.

Allow overpayment for all costs on a voucher – This
is a new
checkbox available from the cost entry screen which,
when
clicked, will affect all Venture Overpayment
checkboxes during
a given voucher’s cost entry. By default, all
installations
will receive this new checkbox.

Outstanding Receivables Report (Traverse Customers
only) – a
new report is available from several locations in
VISCO including
Finances: Accounts Receivable and Customer: Edit.
This report draws
information directly from the accounting system
Traverse to
deliver an A/R aging report in VISCO for the entire
company or
a single customer. This is the first in several
attempts to
further combine VISCO and Traverse accounting
functions into a
single ERP system. To see an example of this or have
it turned
on for your VISCO/Traverse install, please contact
your
support manager.


Upgrades Available:

Hide fields and Tabs – We now have the ability to
hide any
fields in VISCO standard pages (PO Prep, Customer
Edit, etc)
that are not required in the system. We can also
hide entire
tabs in the tab based screens as well. A release in
not required
for this customization.

Custom Field Enhancements – Now custom fields can
be
programmed to behave in ways our standard fields
cannot. We can
require custom fields, auto fill fields on load, or
default based
on another field’s selection. The possibilities are
nearly endless,
let us know how you want your custom fields to
behave!

Custom Accruals – We’ve made a great deal of
progress on
developing custom accruals for various customers. We
now have
a library of accruals to work from that will make
any new work
significantly less time consuming, so if you are
interested in
custom accruals, please ask us to give you an
estimate.

Inventory Allocation Grid, Cost Entry Venture Grid &
Delivery
Maintenance Release Grid – Some additional columns
can now be added to
this grid, any can also be removed with a release.

Load Scans based on filter defaults – We can default
to
‘Starts With,’ ‘Contains,’ or ‘Equals’ in scans
system wide.
Default to At Source or In Transit.

Container Create – We can set a default for At
Source or In
Transit status when loading the Container Create
screen.

Disable Invoice Print Required – By request, we can
turn of
the current requirement of having Invoices printed
before they
are posted. Just let us know and we’ll do it that
day. Default
direct to Container information screen on Container
Create –
By request, we can now have all users directed
straight to our
new Container information screen when they create a
new
container, bypassing our current “Create Container”
screen
completely.

If you have any questions about these enhancements,
would like
to learn more about them, or have questions about
the progress
of your own enhancements, give us a call at
845-383-3800.
Thank you for your time and attention, and for being
a valued
VISCO customer.

Andrew Peck
VISCO
291 Wall Street, Suite 401
Kingston, NY 12401



VISCO LLC
291 Wall Street, Suite 401 Kingston, NY 12401
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"The new Contract Management function allows trading
companies and
brokers the ability to cut data entry in half."