Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
Hello everyone!
We are just now in the process of integrating our deliveries and orders with our wholesaler and have come across something that we were interested in whether others would find useful.
It is our understanding that currently, items that are in a delivery but not in OpenVPMS, need to be removed from the delivery before the delivery can be accepted. In our clinic, we have heaps of items we order that don't ever need to be billed, so we will have lots of non matched items.
We are suggesting that items that are not matched could have an "Ignore" option that adds the item to a Lookup list of items. These items will show as "Skip" in future deliveries.
Would anyone else find this useful?
Cheers
Matt
Re: Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
It depends - if the item has value it should be added as a product - I get you may not bill it - but if its a disposable you should track it -
We use supplier invoices and at months end we actually check off the statement - sure we could remove 0 dollar items such as flyers etc but ideally the next thing I think we need here...is for esci to support freight outside of the line items - ie as an invoice level service fee.
I guess you could add an ignore feature that still puts the item on the supplier invoice but in the current framework I dont think thats possible.
Re: Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
Thanks for replying Ben,
Yeah we aren't the most avid at watching our stock, especially consumable overheads. They just don't seem to vary much when indexed against departmental billing. But that's outside of this scope!
Sounds like a configurable option for us might be the way to go here. We might be an outlier :-)
Cheers
Matt
Re: Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
It does sound like a very specific requirement. Would multiple delete support in deliveries improve things? Here, you would sort on the Product column to display all of the items with no product, and then select the ones to delete.
Re: Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
Multi-list selection would be great Tim but we have created a work around.
We are adding them as items prefixed by the letter Z so that they don't appear for the clinicians.
Now don't add default wildcard searching to product lookups (without a user configurable option) and we are cooking with gas ;-)
Cheers
matt
Re: Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
If implemented, this may be useful for us occasionally, but only for trialing new products eg. Recently one of our suppliers has some new wound products and we have been evaluating whether to stock Solosite vs Manuka Solution or Gel.
Regards,
Mary
Simon Slater
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Re: Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
A quick follow up query,
Can deliveries map to inactive products?
We are seeking to limit clinician's product searches containing products that were only added for the purpose of receiving deliveries.
Cheers
Matt
Re: Non listed items in Deliveries: Ignore option
No. Products must be active in order to do product mapping from ESCI invoices.