Fourth Hospitality Product Management

Infrastructure Activities Database housekeeping/management: For many months, the infrastructure team has been dealing with serious issues around the lack of space available for the trade simple databases on both the Hospitality and eparts platforms (see also Document Repository management below). The following steps were taken to address these issues: All non-critical data was identified and purged from the system. This was done out of hours to minimise possible performance issues. Ongoing housekeeping procedures ensure that this a continuous process This freed-up hundreds of Gigabytes within the database. For comparison, approximately 1GB (10 9 bytes) is required to store about 1,000 average-length novels in English or 7 minutes of HDTV! Unfortunately,however, SQL Server did not make this free space available on the disks for other databases to use — so the problems continued After much research and testing the Infrastructure Team now understand f...

Integration of trade simple with the New Platform Existing Integration with FnB Manager Following the purchase of trade simple by Fourth Hospitality, a number of points of integration were created between FnB Manager and trade simple and there are a number of customers using this configuration today. Broadly speaking, trade simple enables FnB to communicate electronically with the suppliers — by importing products and catalogues; transmitting Purchase Orders; receiving Acknowledgements,Confirmations and Delivery Notes to update the order details; and receiving validated Invoice and Credit Notes for matching — while the users retain all of the FnB Manager functionality for order–creation, stock control and invoice matching. Existing Integration with Star Chef (and Caterwide) for TRG The Restaurant Group had been a long–standing customer of both Star Logic and ABS using Star Chef and trade simple along with Torex's Caterwid...

Legacy Development Because of the New Platform, much has been done to resist the development of new features and functions in the front-end of trade simple . However, a small number of important enhancements have been carried out for key customers, especially where they also provide a basis for something that will ultimately enhance the New Platform. Debit Notes — A Key Enhancement to trade simple Invoice Management A key trade simple customer, that uses trade simple to manage ALL of their incoming invoices — both paper and electronic, wanted to remove — as much as possible — the concept of Credit Notes from their business and replace it with Debits. That is they wanted to tell their suppliers “thanks for your invoice, this is how much of it we won't be paying.” To this end they part–funded an exciting enhancement to trade simple to allow them to manage this process. Essentially it works like this: The unit creates a Goods Rec...