Precision Strip
Customer Access Help
- General
Instructions
- Available
Inventory
- Inventory Search
- Choose A Plant
- Choose Format
- Viewing/Printing/Downloading
Reports
- List Saved Reports
- Index of Terms
General
Instructions
The
Precision Strip Customer Access system was designed to provide a user friendly
environment that allows our customers to manage their inventory.
Each
new user is given an account name and password and access to their specific
accounts. If the customer that
acquired the account is a ship to location, said customer will be able to view
their inventories for all suppliers that supply them. Conversely, if the customer that acquired
the account is the supplier (mill) they will be able to view the inventory for
any ship to location that they provide material for.
Available Inventory
To
attain a user-interactive look at detailed inventory information for coils that
are available for shipment or slitting within the inventory, select Available
Inventory. This option drills first to a
partner (supplier / ship to combination) and then to the parts for this
partner. At this point the customer can
view items at an detailed inventory level.
Inventory Search
The
inventory search function allows a customer to query for coils that are of any
status (available/shipped etc). If the
search criteria is more detailed, the amount of time
it takes to retrieve the information will be shorter. At least one of partner, owner, user, part,
mill order, owner order, or user order are required to
be entered in the filtering criteria.
Reports
Many
different types of reports are available.
Some are directly off of the main menu, others are provided as you drill
down on the inventory. Based on the type
of report selected, the criteria for that report that can be entered appears Back to
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Available
Inventory allows the customer to drill down on an inventory item. The customer starts by selecting a partner
from a list of partner’s that they have access to. On the right side of the partner list there
is a yes/no indication stating whether that partner relationship has inventory
associated with it. After the partner
is selected, the customer is given a list of parts for that partner that have available
inventory in them. If there are multiple pages associated with
the inventory, they will be indicated in the upper right hand corner of where
the parts are listed. To move to a
different page, click on the page number you want to view. To resort the list of parts by metal type,
click on the red/green up down arrow.
In
order to access the ACTIONS available for a part, click on the radio set next
to the action you would like to perform for that part. Then click the information button next to the
part you would like to perform the action for.
For example, if you would like to look at the inventory items for a
part, click on the radio button Inventory detail and then the information
button next to the part you would like to see the inventory detail for.
A new
set of ACTIONS appear when looking at the inventory detail. To perform these actions you must click on
the radio set next to the action and then click on the information button next
to the inventory item. To view details
about an inventory item, click on the link on the PSI number. It will show detailed information such as
heat lot, hold statuses, weights, receipt dates or anything you may need to
know about the coil.
The
coil diagram option off of the inventory detail actions,
shows a graphical depiction of the coils lifeline. This will indicate which children were
produced from which masters and how much scrap was generated during that
process. Back to Top
The
inventory search function allows you to search on many different attributes of a
coil including the coil number itself.
When entering search criteria for inventory search and select, at least
one of the following must be entered as criteria: Mill Coil Number, PSI ID, Owner ID, Partner ID, User ID, Order ID, Load ID or Customer Load ID. For explanations of what these terms mean,
please see the index of terms.
In the
places you see an Information button next to a field 
, you can click on the
information button to query the options available to you in this field. By clicking on the partner id information
button, for example, you can choose from a list of partners you have security
to access. If you are not a supplier,
or do not have security to access inventory by a supplier, when clicking on the
information button next to the owner id, you will not be given any options for
owners to query by. You can however,
search on you inventory for a certain mill be selecting the partner id that
reflects the combination of the owner and user id relationship.
The
customer can enter as little as one search field or as many attributes of the
inventory that they would like to narrow the selection by. Once each selection criteria is entered,
click on the continue button at the bottom of the page to show the results of
the search.
Choose A Plant
From
within the customer access system the customer can easily access information
about their account for each Precision Strip plant they do business. To load information about a different plant,
choose the plant you would like to switch to.
Once the plant is selected, any information queried for will reflect
that plant. If there is no customer
inventory at a different plant selected, no inventory information will
appear. You cannot view inventory information
being processed at two different Precision Strip plants during the same
query.
The
choose format option refers to selecting the format to view the data in. If the
customer selects Metric, the weights, gauges, widths and any other numerical
data will show in metric. If the
customers selects English, the weights, gauges, widths and any
other numerical data will show in English. Back to Top
Viewing Printing Downloading
Reports
The
Precision Strip Customer Access is designed to print reports using the browsers
print button. When a report is brought
to the screen, the customer should be able to press the print icon on their
browser to print the report. In the
upper right hand corner of the report are several links. Print friendly will shrink the report down
into the browser’s window so that when you click on the printer icon, the
report is contained within the view of the window, thus allowing the entire
width of the report. View friendly expands
the size of the font being used so that it is easier to read on the
screen. If the entire width of the report is already
visible in the browser, there is no reason to shrink the font size (by using
print friendly) before clicking on the printer icon. To download a report, click the download
button in the report viewer window. The report will be downloaded to your computer. This report is in an ASCII text format and
can be pulled into an editor, or other software that can view ASCII text
documents. Back to Top
The
list saved reports feature allows Precision Strip generated reports to be
viewed, downloaded or printed from within the Precision Strip Customer Access
system. Some customers require custom
reports that are not available through the Customer Access System. Others request scheduled reports to run
daily or monthly, regardless if they will be dialing into the Customer Access
System during that time frame. An
example of this would be a month end inventory report. These reports can be run by a scheduled job
which would be set up by a Precision Strip IT person. When the report is run it would be placed in
a directory for view or download at the customer’s convenience. When
this report has been viewed, it can be deleted by clicking on the delete
option. Back to Top
The
purpose of this Index is to offer an explanation of terminology that may be
specific to Precision Strip.
Owner
ID - The customer that is in
ownership of a coil/coils. Most frequently the owner is the mill that
processed the material.
User ID - The
customer that the material is shipping to. It is an ID that
is associated with a customer name and address
Partner ID - The
combination of an Owner and Ship To. This relationship gets an ID associated with
it that inventory can be queried on.
Part ID
- The unique combination of a
gauge, width, metal type and partner id.