Business Suite

Business Suite 6.0.9 [27-Oct-2021]

• [Enhancement] Ticket Capture Window
  • Added "Transactions" tab that will list all the transactions generated by this ticket. Only available if a ticket is invoiced.
  • Added indicator if compartment volumes were updated when this ticket was processed.
• [Enhancement] Grid search - Implement on Logistics - Administration – Distances, and Logistics - Administration - Log Tag setting windows.
• [Enhancement] Product Price Override (Log Tag, Log Tally and Product Totals)
  • Added a new tab with product volume summary and standard product prices as defined in price definition. Price information only available if ticket rates have been calculated and the user has the "view rates" access right.
  • Additional columns added to allow sale and purchase price overrides. Only users with the "rate override" access rights will be able to change these values.
  • Sale and purchase price override columns only shown when the supply package has sale and purchase commodities.
  • Price override not allowed on invoiced tickets.

Business Suite 6.0.8 [12-Jul-2021]

• [Enhancement] Software update notification - the system will now show you a notification after login if you had a system upgrade.
• [Enhancement] Log tally sheet - You can now filter and sort the grid. The search and sort will be synchronized between tally and control tab.
• [Bug Fix] Resources - Resources for the "Own" supplier did not return as it should.

Business Suite 6.0.7 [28-Jun-2021]

• [Enhancement] Valuation Module – Commodity Price Definitions Allow valuation users to flag commodity price definitions as valuation-only. These price definitions may then be edited only by valuation users. Only valuation users will see the prices for valuation-only price definitions.
• [Enhancement] HR Timesheet Capture. Do not allow regular time to overlap with overtime. This rule ignored on weekends and public holidays.
• [Enhancement] Ticket Capture – Product Totals. Made provision to specify number of pieces (instead of number of logs and volume) with functionality to automatically calculate resulting volume using pre-defined standard #pieces/m3 volume.
• [Bug Fix] Ticket Capture – Filter Window. Prevent “index not found” error in some instances.
• [Bug Fix] Tree view Selectors. Fixed some minor display bugs.

Business Suite 6.0.6 [07-Apr-2021]

• [Enhancement] Valuation Module

  • Valuation-Only Supplier

    Allow valuation users to flag suppliers as valuation-only suppliers. These suppliers may then be used only by valuation users in valuation features.

  • Valuation-Only Resources

    Allow valuation users to create resources for valuation-only suppliers. The use of valuation and non-valuation suppliers cannot be mixed. When using a valuation supplier, the resource becomes a valuation-only resource.

  • Valuation-Only Work Standards

    Allow a valuation user to use valuation-only activities introduced in Plantation Manager version 6.0.4 This defines a work standard as valuation-only. Valuation-only and non-valuation resources and activities may not be mixed.

Business Suite 6.0.5 [11-Mar-2021]

• [Enhancement] Grid search - This is the same as implemented in Plantation Manager version 6.0.3
• [Bug Fix] System crashes on Ticket Capture Window.

Business Suite 6.0.4 [15-Feb-2021]

• [Enhancement] Session handling

  This is the same as implemented in Plantation Manager version 6.0.2

Business Suite 6.0.3 [10-Feb-2021]

• [Enhancement] Timesheet Control

  • Highlight public holidays.

• [Enhancement] Datalogger Data Management

  • Lookups and logs filtered on user rights (log supplier, etc)
  • Enhanced filter controls

Business Suite 6.0.2 [18-Jan-2021]

• [Enhancement] Add currency to product prices under commodities.

Business Suite 6.0.1 [11-Jan-2021]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 6.0.0 [06-Jan-2021]

• [Maintenance] Memory Cleanup - Under certain circumstances, after extended periods of intense usage and repeated large dataset retrieval in especially the Datalogger Management window, the memory usage of the Business Suite application may become excessive leading to memory related errors. In this release the .NET automatic memory manager is forced to immediately release unused memory avoiding this situation.

Business Suite 5.5.23 [17-Dec-2020]

• [Enhancement] Make provision for additional budget types (new types added on request). The main purpose of this enhancement is to enable different budget type work standards for use in the budgeting module. Only 'Default' work standard resources are selectable for works orders.

Business Suite 5.5.22 [07-Dec-2020]

• [Enhancement] Timesheet Capture

  You can now add comments at the bottom of the timesheet capture window.

  • There are zero or more comments linked to a timesheet.
  • Each comment has 'Comment Type' and 'Comment' text (500 chars for now).
  • Can have more than one comment of the same type.

Business Suite 5.5.21 [30-Nov-2020]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.5.20 [26-Oct-2020]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.5.19 [20-Oct-2020]

• [Enhancement] Supplier Agreements

  Supplier agreements allows an administrator to specify:

  • The maximum accumulative amount that may be allocated on works orders linked to the agreement,
  • The period it is valid for, and
  • The activities it is valid for.

  One or more supplier agreements may be specified for a supplier. An agreement may also be terminated before the maximum amount is allocated. When terminated, the currently allocated amount at that point may not be exceeded.

  A setting - which can be configured by Microforest on request - specifies whether an agreement is mandatory on a works order. If mandatory, the agreement must be specified before works order authorization may be requested.

  The supplier agreement management window can be accessed through File - Administration - Supplier Agreements menu option.

Business Suite 5.5.18 [03-Sep-2020]

• [Enhancement] HR – Added a pay point attribute to employee and the ability to filter on it when searching for employees. When interfaced with VIP, the pay point attribute is read from the VIP employee database.

Business Suite 5.5.17 [03-Sep-2020]

• [Enhancement] Works Order – Rates

  Allow empty rates (if no standard rates exist yet and no rate override specified) on works order activities and resources (with warning) until works order authorisation is requested.

Business Suite 5.5.16 [01-Jul-2020]

• [Enhancement] Customer Agreement

  Prior to this change a supply package was uniquely identified by its log supplier, commodity and customer. This means that if multiple customer agreements existed for the same log supplier and commodity, different supply packages could not be created. In these instances, clients worked around this restriction by creating duplicate customers for the different agreements.

  This change includes the customer agreement in the supply package key, removing this restriction, meaning it is no longer necessary to create customer duplicates to use different agreements in supply packages.

  All supply package customer selection controls now also indicate the agreement number in the following format: '[AgreementCode] CustomerName'. The user must select the appropriate customer with the correct agreement code when selecting a supply package (during ticket creation for example). Customer filter selection controls still filter only on the customer.

Business Suite 5.5.15 [01-Jun-2020]

• [Enhancement] Ticket Document

  The Microforest Mobile Application introduced recently provides the ability to add documents and images to various entities, including tickets.

  The original 'Comment' tab on the 'Capture Tickets' window was changed to a 'Comment/Docs' tab. This enhancement allows users to manage ticket documents (view, add, edit, delete), including those added by the mobile application. Available on request.

Business Suite 5.5.14 [14-Apr-2020]

• [Enhancement] Operations Administration - Work Standards
  • Handle changes to activity definitions that result in SP Group and/or Category becoming applicable or no longer applicable on existing work standard definitions. If detected, flag records as modified and issue appropriate warnings.
  • Correctly handle SP Group and Category for activity sub-classes other than Compartment and Overheads, i.e. roads, open areas and infrastructure.

Business Suite 5.5.13 [17-Mar-2020]

• [Enhancement] Timesheet capture enhancements/changes.
  • Default normal day start/end hours may be specified. Please contact Microforest if you want to specify a different period other than the default 07:00 – 17:00.
  • If the 'Use Time' option is toggled on, then the specified start/end times are also stored even if the time class's unit of measure is 'day'.

Business Suite 5.5.12 [10-Mar-2020]

• [Enhancement] Timesheet capture enhancements/changes.
  • Allow timesheet to be created for specific works order, activity & day, but without employee time entries if required.
  • Main timesheet information is now also tied to specific works order, activity & day. Change will result in timesheet entries being cleared. Warning given.

Business Suite 5.5.11 [27-Feb-2020]

• [Enhancement] Added customer filter to the ticket processing window. The tickets to be processed can now include an optional list of customers, adding to the existing log supplier and date filters.

Business Suite 5.5.10 [23-Jan-2020]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.5.9 [10-Jul-2019]

• [Enhancement] New Import Ticket functionality added.

  A new button has been added to the Ticket Capture window that opens a dialog where total quantity type tickets may be imported. On successful parsing and validation of the CSV file, the Ticket Capture window is populated with the ticket data and saved only after apply. There is also a template generator to generate an empty CSV file with all the possible columns.

  • Any optional columns may be removed from the template.
  • All lookups and mandatory values will be validated.
  • In general, all ticket attribute values must be specified exactly as it appears on the Ticket Capture window, with some exceptions. Please contact Microforest support before an import is attempted so that field value specifics can be explained.

Business Suite 5.5.8 [16-May-2019]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.5.7 [29-Jan-2019]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.5.6 [01-Dec-2018]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.5.5 [27-Nov-2018]

• [Enhancement] Additional fields available for ticket definitions if required.

Business Suite 5.5.4 [11-Sep-2018]

• [Enhancement] VAT, FSC numbers and address

  The enhancements described below enable invoice printing on the weighbridge application; refer to the Weighbridge 3.1.0 notes in the Weighbridge section of this document.

  • Address information for Log Supplier, Supplier and Customers can now be captured.
  • VAT fields added and linked to selected country.
  • FSC Number – material category pairs can now be captured with Log Supplier info and used/selected in Supply Packages.

Business Suite 5.5.3 [26-Jun-2018]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.5.2 [28-Jul-2017]

• [Enhancement] Works Order Resource Standard Override
  • New 'Std Override' works order column.
  • If specified, the 'Std Override' instead of the default 'Std' is used to calculate the resource 'Qty'.
  • If the resource 'Qty' is changed and the 'Std Override' was specified, the 'Std Override' is updated accordingly.

Business Suite 5.5.1 [31-May-2017]

• [Enhancement] Sales Price Rate Override
  • A new sales price override ticket column is now available on request.
  • It is a rate override (currency/unit, e.g. R/ton or R/m3), not a total price override.
  • It can only be used at total quantity tickets (e.g. weighbridge), not at multiple product type tickets.
  • A read-only overridden sales price total column has also been added to show the total sales price based on the rate override, i.e. Total = Quantity * Sales price override

Business Suite 5.5.0 [11-May-2017]

• [Enhancement] Human Resources Administration – Employees

  The newly added Employees tab on the Human Resources Administration window allows an authorized user to view, add or edit employees. Employees imported from an ERP system (e.g. VIP) may be viewed but not edited.

Business Suite 5.4.19 [18-Nov-2016]

• [Enhancement] Merchandiser Supplier Type

  A new supplier type, Merchandiser and its associated merchandising rate and 'Purchase Order – Merchandising' cost of sale transaction type have been added to the system. Microforest will add these additional ticket fields on request.

Business Suite 5.4.18 [17-Nov-2016]

• [Enhancement] Timesheet Reversal

  A new 'Reversal' check box has been added to the timesheet window. A timesheet that has been submitted to the HR system (e.g. VIP), cannot be modified. A reversal timesheet allows reversal transactions (negative work units) to be submitted to the HR system.

Business Suite 5.4.17 [21-Oct-2016]

• [Enhancement] New HR Interface Client

  Standard Business Suite functionality unchanged. Only server-side provision for HR interface client web services.

Business Suite 5.4.16 [10-Oct-2016]

• [Enhancement] New Log Supplier Cost Centre attribute.

  Used in ERP interface where applicable.

Business Suite 5.4.15 [07-Jul-2016]

• [Enhancement] New Purchase Commodity Grade

  Equivalent to Sales Commodity's Grade. Added to Supply Package Admin window and also available on Ticket Capture window on request.

Business Suite 5.4.14 [04-Jul-2016]

• [Enhancement] Ticket Capture - New Activity Category Column

  May be added to relevant ticket types on request. Blank by default, but if specified will override default APO activity category used in supplier rate calculation.

• [Enhancement] User Application Rights – Tickets: View Rates and Prices

  If disabled, no price and rate columns will be shown on ticket capture window.

• [Bug fixes] Various bug fixes.

Business Suite 5.4.13 [02-Jun-2016]

• [Enhancement] Ticket Product and Activity columns lookups.

  • The Product ticket attribute introduced with the 'Barcode Label Scan' enhancement in Weighbridge 2.3.0. now has a lookup selection facility in the ticket Capture window.
  • The Activity Id ticket column that was introduced to facilitate rate calculation for suppliers working on outside plantations now also has a lookup selection facility in the ticket Capture window.

Business Suite 5.4.12 [30-May-2016]

• [Enhancements] ERP Interface – Certain client specific ERP interface enhancements.
• [Enhancements] Weighbridge – Make provision for Weighbridge 3.0.0. functionality – refer to Weighbridge section.

Business Suite 5.4.11 [04-Mar-2016]

• [Maintenance Release]

Business Suite 5.4.10 [30-Nov-2015]

• [Enhancement/Change] Revise Works Order

  • Previously any user (or the user's stand-in) in the authorisation list could revise a works order.
  • Now only the last user (or the user's stand-in) in the authorisation list can revise the works order if allowed by a new user application right: Logistics - Works Orders – Revise. As always this new application right has been disabled by default for all users.

Business Suite 5.4.9 [16-Sep-2015]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders – Default Logistics Suppliers
  • This enhancement is aimed specifically at clients that use the barcode label generation and scan functionality (refer to Business Suite 5.4.0); it is disabled otherwise.
  • A default Extractor, Long Hauler, Short Hauler, Off Loader and Loader may be specified for harvesting type activities. If specified, these suppliers will be automatically selected on the weighbridge application (refer to Weighbridge 2.3.5)
• [Enhancement] Additional Ticket Quantity Value
  • In some instances it may be required to specify a second quantity (and date) on a total quantity ticket (e.g. weighbridge ticket). These additional ticket fields may be added on request by Syndicate for this purpose.
  • This additional value may be optional or mandatory. Selection of the new 'Enforce double ticket total quantity entry' supply package check box makes it mandatory. In this case the ticket will have an 'Incomplete Data' status until the additional quantity is supplied.
  • NOTE: If this value is specified, it will always be used for calculations, not the normal quantity. This may change in future.

Business Suite 5.4.8 [11-Sep-2015]

• [Enhancement] Operations Administration - Supplier Rates: Harvester/Extractor Service Type
  • If a supplier is defined as being able to act as both a harvester and an extractor, a new Service Type column is displayed on the Supplier Rates window. If a supplier's service type(s) change after rates were defined and one or more rates are no longer valid, the column is displayed and the incorrect Harvester or Extractor selections are shown in red.

Business Suite 5.4.7 [05-Aug-2015]

• [Enhancement] Capture Tickets – New debit log supplier functionality. Used to debit log supplier on product purchase tickets.

Business Suite 5.4.6 [31-Jul-2015]

• [Enhancement] Seedstock – Handle inactive seedstock and species validation. Refer to Plantation Manager version 5.3.1

• [Enhancement] Compartment Volume Writeback – Handle different buckspecs.

  Previously when volumes with a different buckspec configuration than that of the compartment were written back, the volumes were kept in the source buckspec configuration. This is problematic for predicted/planned vs. actual volume comparisons.

  This change enables the system to automatically transform the volumes to the compartment buckspec configuration during writeback:

  • Logs with dimensions (tally sheets) are reclassified using the compartment buckspec dimension rules.
  • Total quantity ticket volumes (e.g. weighbridges) are assigned to the first product.
  • Product total volumes (no log dimensions) are assigned using predefined transformation rules. These rules are setup by Syndicate using input from clients if required.

Business Suite 5.4.5 [20-Jul-2015]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders - Select Apo Activities. New right-click popup menu on activity grid to select/unselect items multiple items.

• [Enhancement] Task/Norm based Timesheet entries.

  Plantation Manager version 5.3.0 introduces a new 'Task Unit' activity attribute (e.g. 'trees'). If specified, it allows task based work standards and timesheet entries to be created for the activity.

  • Work Standards: Labour resources for activities with a specified 'Task Unit' (e.g. trees), displays its 'Task UoM' (e.g. trees/manday) and allows the user to specify a 'Task Std' or norm (e.g. 30 trees/manday).
  • Timesheets: If a 'Task Std' (e.g. 30 trees/manday) is defined for the resource, it is displayed and the user may specify the 'Task Actual' for the entry (e.g. 27 trees/manday, i.e. 10% underachievement).

• [Enhancement] Timesheet – Use Time option

  If all the time classes on a timesheet do not specifically use time and it is not important to be captured (e.g. daily/monthly rate or task/norm based entries), the option exists to hide the Start/End Time columns and set all time values to 00:00. If an hourly based time class is subsequently used (e.g. hourly overtime), the option will be automatically cleared. The default value (on or off) may be setup by Syndicate on client request.

Business Suite 5.4.4 [12-Jun-2015]

• [Enhancement] Use PM Assigned APO Suppliers – Works Orders (refer to the Plantation Manager version 5.2.9 release notes)

  A new 'Apo Supplier' check box on the works order window limits available activities in the 'Add Activity…' drop down to only those assigned to the works order supplier.

  Similarly, the 'Select Apo Activities' window that is opened also displays only APO activities/landuses assigned to the works order supplier.

Business Suite 5.4.3 [08-Jun-2015]

• [Bug Fix] Quick Search

  Previously the 'Quick search' functionality matched the search text only with the starting characters of the items in the list being searched, not any occurrence within the items' text, i.e. the search term 'abc would find 'Abc Supplier' and 'ABCD Harvesters' but not 'Supplier ABC10'. This has been fixed.

• [Enhancement] Use PM Assigned APO Suppliers (refer to the PM 5.2.9 release notes)

  • Budget

    Previously a supplier was assigned to an own or contractor activity as follows:

    • Own: The supplier flagged as 'Own' of the appropriate type (harvester, silviculture, overhead).
    • Contractor: The first 'not own' supplier found of the appropriate type and with budget rates.

    With this change, the supplier(s) assigned to the APO are used. If none is assigned, the normal procedure as above applies.

  • Works order activity selection – to be implemented.

Business Suite 5.4.2 [29-Apr-2015]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders Buttons – Enable/Disable as appropriate.

  Previously all buttons were enabled irrespective of the currently selected works order's status. Now the Authorise/Revise, Create Tickets, Edit and Delete buttons are only enabled when applicable.

• [Enhancement] Works Orders – Option to specify only commodity in harvesting activity/ compartment selection, ignoring customer.

  Previously users had to select a specific SP's supply for harvesting activities (Refer to Business Suite 5.2.1: Works Orders - Use Supply Package (SP) Supply for Harvesting Activities). This enhancement gives users the option to specify only the activity/compartment and commodity, i.e. ignoring the customer.

  Once a "commodity only" or "SP specific supply" type item has been added to a works order, any additional items must be of the same type. This restriction was introduced to prevent duplicate items and facilitate more accurate 'Actual Prod' totals (see below).

• [Enhancement] Works Orders - New actuals columns

  In addition to the existing 'Actual Work/Res' column, new 'Actual Prod', 'Actual Work', 'Work/Res Remain', 'Prod Remain' and 'Amount Remain' columns were added.

  All actual values includes debit/credit note tickets (if any)

  A harvesting works order item's 'Actual Prod' and 'Actual Amount' values, and by implication their respective 'Remain' values, are calculated from SP type production tickets that reference the same log supplier, harvester supplier and same SP supply, or activity and compartment (if customer ignored).

  Note that whilst a works order ticket has a direct link to the specific works order and the selected works order item, there is no explicit link between a harvesting work order item and a SP ticket. This might influence the accuracy of the calculated actual prod and actual amount values of harvesting works order items.

• [Enhancement] Revise Works Order, including Stop Work functionality.

  Previously a works order could not be edited when it was authorised and tickets or time sheets were using it. It is now possible to temporarily revise these works orders, edit, and authorise them again.

  When editing such a works order:

  • Only items with no referenced time sheet entries or tickets (actuals = zero) may be deleted.
  • Planned/target work or resource quantities or production values may not be changed to less than the actual values already recorded.
  • New works order items may be added.
  • A new 'Stop Work' button and 'Stopped' column allows the user to stop work or resource usage of all (no rows selected) or only selected works order items. When an item is stopped it may not be used in new works order tickets or timesheets. Stopped items are indicated with an asterisk (*) before the item name in ticket and timesheet lookups.

  While the works order is in the Under Revision or Revision Auth Pending state, no new timesheet entries or tickets may be created for it. Existing tickets and time sheet entries will still be listed but with an asterisk (*) before the works order name.

Business Suite 5.4.1 [26-Mar-2015]

• [Enhancement] Works Order – Create Tickets

  A new Create Tickets button on the Works Orders window allows a user to automatically create works order tickets for all or selected items/activities with outstanding work in the selected works order. If no activity rows are selected, all activities are considered.

  This button is only enabled for users with Ticket Edit rights. Tickets can only be generated for approved works orders. The tickets' quantities will be set to the remaining work of every activity.

  Once the Create Tickets button is pressed, the Capture Tickets window is opened, or activated if already open. All tickets, if any, already in the Capture Tickets window will be replaced with the newly generated tickets.

  The user may change the default ticket quantities and dates. Any tickets not required may be deleted using the Delete button as always. It is important to note that the newly created tickets are only physically created in the database once the user presses 'Apply'. If the Capture Tickets window is closed or the Clear or Find buttons are used before Apply, the tickets will be lost.

  The Actual Work/Qty column values in the Works Order window are automatically refreshed when the user presses Apply in the Ticket Capture window.

• [Enhancement] Unit of Measure (UoM) Conversion

  It is sometimes necessary to convert recorded timber into alternative units, e.g. measured weight on weighbridge in kg/ton to $m3$. For this purpose the following attributes have been added on the Logistics Administration windows:

  • Commodity Product: Conversion Factor and Conversion Unit. Conversion Factor is used to convert from the measured unit (e.g. kg/ton on WB) to the new Conversion Unit (e.g. m3)
  • Supply Package Ticket Types: UoM Conversion. If checked, this specifies that the unit conversion must be applied to the specific ticket type and action.

  Please note

  • Ticket quantities are always stored in the original recorded UoM. It is only converted when required for specific purposes, e.g. certain reports, ERP integration, etc.

  • Some products can be measured both in m3 (tally sheets) and kg (weighbridge), i.e. Unit can be kg/ton or m3 and its Conversion Unit can be m3 or kg/ton. The conversion will always use the conversion factor as follows, irrespective of the Unit and Conversion Unit order:

    Converted Quantity = Measured quantity * Conversion Factor

Business Suite 5.4.0 [30-Jan-2015]

• [Enhancement] Works Order – Commodity Product Selection

  Product selection supports the barcode label generation and scan functionality – see next enhancement and the related Weighbridge 2.3.0 notes. If barcode label generation and scanning is not used, the product attribute in the 'Select Apo Activities' and 'Works Orders' window can be ignored.

  Previously when selecting harvesting activities (SP Supply) for a works order from the 'Select Apo Activities' window, no products could be specified. Similarly product information could not be specified on a weighbridge ticket.

  Now the user has the option to leave the product selection empty (default behavior - all/mix), or select one or more products. If more than one product is selected, individual line items, one for each selected product will be added to the works order. On subsequent selections, the products already in the works order will not be available for selection. Once the empty product option is selected, the activity/landuse (SP supply item) will no longer not be selectable at all (will not appear in list of available SP supply items), i.e. the order of selection is important if a mixture of individual products and the empty product option is required.

  The selected product (if any) will be part of the barcode label information generated for the activity (see below) and will be populated on the weighbridge ticket when the barcode is scanned.

• [Enhancement] Barcode Label Generation

  The enhancements described below enable barcode scanning on the weighbridge application; refer to the Weighbridge 2.3.0 notes in the Weighbridge section of this document.

  Barcode label generation and scan functionality is disabled by default, but may be enabled on request. If disabled, the new user interface controls mentioned below will not be available/visible.

  • Supplier Administration – 'Default Truck Load Capacity' attribute.

    This value (in kg) is used to calculate the default number of labels to print based on the expected production yield of a given works order activity.

  • Works Orders – Barcode label generation.

    Barcode label generation may commence for selected harvesting activities once a works order is approved.

    A 'Print Labels' button is available when an approved works order with at least one harvesting activity is selected and the current user has the Print Barcode Labels' user access right.

    Upon selection of a harvesting activity the total number of labels already printed and a grid with a list of previously printed barcode label batches are displayed: Date, User, No of Labels, First Barcode and Last Barcode.

    The 'Print Labels' button opens the Print Barcode Labels' window listing all the harvesting activities in the works order with label information as follows:

    Load capacity: Defaults to works order supplier's default truck load capacity. Editable.

    #Default: The default number of labels is equal to the Activity Qty divided by the Load capacity. Read only.

    #Printed: Total number of labels already printed.

    #To Print: The number of labels to print, initially set to the default number of labels minus the number of labels already printed. May be overridden by user.

    The 'Print' button issues a final confirmation message, the barcode labels are generated and a PDF report is generated, which the user must use to print the labels.

    The generated barcode label contains the necessary information to automatically generate a weighbridge ticket with minimum operator input when the printed label is scanned at the weighbridge. Refer to the Weighbridge 2.3.0 notes.

• [Enhancement] Works Order Activity Selection: Crop Fail Fell (harvesting activity with or without volumes) could previously only be added to works order if on a supply package. Now also included in normal activity dropdown for selection, i.e. no longer required to be on SP (if no volumes produced).

• [Enhancement] Works Order Activity Selection Dropdown - Include only activities on current APO with outstanding work (AW < BW)
• [Enhancement] Works Order Default Activity Information
  • Plant: If no next rotation espacement is available, default to current compartment espacement (if available).
  • Thin/Prune: Default to first non-completed thin/prune regime record's TPH/height. If thinning/pruning skipped use first pending item after last completed item.
• [Enhancement] Supply Package Admin: Allow supply packages of the previous plan to be listed (read-only)

Business Suite 5.3.0 [24-Nov-2014]

• [Enhancement] Processing/ERP Integration (File - Processing/ERP Integration)

  Please note that this functionality is only enabled and applicable if your Business Suite has been configured to use a specific financial system interface or the generic financial transaction text file export interface. It is meant to replace the original Logistics - Tickets - Process functionality at all our clients in the near future.

  • Supply Package - 'Demand' tab:

    • New 'Sale Fin Code'

      The product financial code when 'Sales Order' transactions are created.

    • New 'Cost Of Sale Group'

      The 'Cost Of Sale Group' and a ticket's supplier type (harvester, short hauler, etc.) are used to lookup the appropriate financial codes when 'Purchase Order – Harvesting', 'Purchase Order – Short Haul', etc. transactions are created. The 'Cost of Sale Group' lookup and financial code lookup matrix will be setup by Syndicate with client input.

    • New 'Purchase Fin Code'

      The product financial code when 'Purchase Order' transactions are created.

    If the above fields are not populated an error will be generated when the specific financial transactions are created.

  • Resource/Supplier link with supplier specific resource rates and account number

    The supplier of a resource must now be specified. Resource rates and account numbers are specific to each resource/supplier combination.

    An account number of '0' will result in no financial transactions being generated for the specific supplier's resource (consistent with existing process when supplier account number is '0').

    An additional 'Own' supplier (i.e. own stores, own labour, etc.) is available for selection. All existing resources and their rates have been automatically linked to the 'Own' supplier with a '0' account number – to be updated by clients as required.

    The rate of the 'Own' supplier's resource is used by the APO Budget process.

    Works order resource selection is now done by supplier/resource. Resource are displayed as 'Resource Name (Supplier Abbreviation)' at works orders admin and works order tickets.

  • Financial Processing

    • New 'Txn Files' button

      The generic financial transaction text file export interface does not interface to a specific financial system; it merely generates text output files. This button allows the user to create output files irrespective of the interface mechanism used. It exports the selected batch's transactions without any re-processing.

      The difference between this and 'Resubmit' is that resubmit may only be done for non-proof batches and it regenerates all financial transactions for the tickets involved in the batch and submits them to the financial system.

      For the non-file based financial system interfaces this is only possible if the batch has not been submitted to the financial system yet, i.e. an error occurred or no financial transactions were initially present (otherwise duplicate transactions will be generated in the financial system).

    • Enhanced to handle additional financial transaction types.

      Previously catered only for 'Purchase Order – WO', now handles the following financial transaction types:

      Works order tickets:

      • Purchase Order – WO
      • Purchase Order – Resources

      SP Tickets:

      • Sales Order
      • Purchase Order
      • Purchase Order - Harvesting
      • Purchase Order - Extraction
      • Purchase Order - Long Haul
      • Purchase Order - Short Haul
      • Purchase Order - Off Loading
      • Purchase Order – Loading

Business Suite 5.2.4 [04-Sep-2014]

• [Enhancement] Combobox/Dropdown Selection Improvement – See notes for PM 5.2.3

• [Enhancement] Works Order SP Supply Selection (Harvesting Activities) - Filter by Compartment.

  • The user may now choose to select either a supply package (as always), or alternatively a specific compartment of the log supplier. If a compartment is selected, all the compartment activities across all relevant supply packages are displayed in the selection grid.
  • Only those compartments that are linked to supply packages and where actual work is still available (Apo BW > AW) are available for selection.
  • Only compartment/activity supply that are not already in the works order, are listed in the selection grid (unchanged).
  • Supply packages are filtered by user access rights (log supplier and customer).

Business Suite 5.2.3 [22-Aug-2014]

• [Enhancement] Custom Log Volume Function – If required by a client, a custom ticket log volume calculation function can be implemented and enabled on any user specifiable supply packages.

  • New 'Use custom log volume function' option on the supply package (SP) administration window. Only enabled if a custom volume function is available.
  • When an SP's custom volume function is switched on (or off), the status of all log-based 'Created' status tickets are set to 'Volume Error' with a 'Volume function changed, volume recalculation required' message. This forces the user to recalculate the volumes of all these tickets. Tickets with existing errors (which have to be updated in any case) or already invoiced tickets are ignored.
  • All log-based tickets created subsequently will/will not use the custom volume function depending on the option setting on the ticket's SP.

Business Suite 5.2.2 [25-Jul-2014]

• [Bug fix] WO Supplier Rates – Include commodity in harvesting activity rate lookup. In release 5.2.1 supplier harvest rates had to be defined without a specific commodity to be usable.

Business Suite 5.2.1 [20-Jun-2014]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders - Use Supply Package (SP) Supply for Harvesting Activities.

  • Previously all activities added to works orders were selected directly from the APO for own log suppliers, or from an outsider's compartment list.
  • Now all thin and fell activities must be selected from the supply list of an SP belonging to the works order's log supplier.

  • The contents of the 'Add Activity…' dropdown is now as follows:

    • 'All Activities (No Thin/Fell)': Only available for own log suppliers. Opens the 'Select APO Activities' window which lists all applicable (to supplier's roles/types) activities on the log supplier's APO, but excluding thin and fell activities.
    • 'SP Supply (Thin/Fell)':
      • Will only be present if one of the supplier's roles/types is 'Harvester'.
      • Own: Opens the 'Select APO Activities' window which first expects an SP to be selected (log supplier preselected) then one or more of the SP's supply.
      • Outsider: Opens the 'Select Activities' window which expects an activity (thin or fell only) and SP to be selected (log supplier preselected), then one or more of the SP's supply.

  • The rest of the items in the dropdown are all the applicable activities as determined by the supplier's roles/types, but always excluding thin and fell activities.

    Note

    Activities with Activity Group 'Other' is also included for Harvesters (client request).

  • If SP supply is present in the works order's activity list, customer and commodity names columns are also shown.

  • The works order ticket definition is unchanged, but thin and fell activities have additional [Customer / Commodity] information (user might need to widen the 'Activity' column).

Business Suite 5.2.0 [05-Jun-2014]

• [Enhancement] Logistics – Administration – Distances: Simplified, unused options removed.

• [Enhancement] Weighbridge Data Management – New 'Create BS Tickets' button.

  • Allows users to re-attempt BS ticket creation for 'Uploaded to server, but with errors' WB tickets.
  • BS Tickets are automatically created when WB tickets are uploaded from weighbridges, but certain errors may prevent this, e.g. a 'No current logistics plan/interval is defined for the specified date!' error is generated if WB tickets are uploaded after PM year-end but before BS year-end. In this case this button can be used to process the WB tickets. Other types of errors might require Syndicate's intervention.

Business Suite 5.1.5 [12-May-2014]

• [Enhancement] Data Logger Data Management – Add Copy, Paste and 'Auto-increment in Block' functionality on grid right-click context menu:

  • Copy: Copy contents of selected cell.
  • Paste: Paste copied contents to selected cell(s).
  • Auto-increment in Block: Uses the value in the topmost selected cell and fills the rest of the selected cells in the column with a sequence of values with an increment of one.

Business Suite 5.1.4 [21-Feb-2014]

• [Enhancement] Works Order Activity Selection and Default Work Quantity

  • Added a compartment 'Effa' column on activity selection window.
  • Added an 'I.Act Qty' column on activity selection window that displays the actual work already performed in the current WO's interval/month. Existing 'Actual' column still displays total actual work.

  • Added the option to specify how default work should be calculated: 'BW-WO' (this is the default – see release note for Business Suite 5.1.0) or 'BW-AW', i.e. use remaining budget work (BW) not on works orders (WO) yet, or remaining budget work after existing actual work (AW) subtracted.

    The new 'BW-AW' calculation is similar to the 'BW-WO' calculation as described in the release note for Business Suite 5.1.0, the only difference is that AW quantities replace WO quantities in the formulas.

• [Enhancement] Stock Module

  • Automatic Stock transfer.

    Previously when an outside stock centre (e.g. Depot) with one compartment (e.g. DepotCompt) received stock ('In') from a compartment (e.g. own A1 or another outside compartment OutCompt) that does not belong to/is part of its log supplier, the 'In' stock appeared on this compartment (A1), not on its own compartment (DepotCompt). However 'out' stock flows from DepotCompt. The stock still balanced on stock centre level, but not on compartment level (DepotCompt) and the inclusion of A1 on this stock centre's stock information is confusing.

    The system was changed to automatically assign the 'in' stock from any compartment that's not part of the receiving stock centre to its own compartment. If the receiving stock centre has no or more than one compartments an error is generated.

  • Complete Cycle

    User access control added. As usual, access rights removed by default for all users. Client administrator to grant to whomever applicable.

Business Suite 5.1.3 [10-Feb-2014]

• [Enhancement] Comprehensive Plant (and Thin & Fell) Information on Works Orders and Works Order Tickets

  Works Orders:

  • Added comprehensive plant information, mandatory for plant activities. Only seed stock and plant date are optional.
  • Default plant information is sourced from the compartment's next rotation information.
  • No defaults are provided for thin TPH or prune height, user to provide as always.

  Works Order Tickets:

  • A new 'Attribute' tab on the Ticket Capture window allows comprehensive plant information, thin TPH or prune height to be specified for plant, thin or prune activities respectively.
  • The default values are sourced from other existing tickets for the same works order activity or from the Works Order if no tickets exist yet.
  • Only one set of ticket information (plant/thin/prune) per works order activity is kept if multiple tickets are created for the same works order activity. If the information is changed on any ticket, the other tickets are updated automatically.

• [Bug Fix] Declining a Works Order with deleted tickets was not possible. The decline functionality now allows the user to decline a Works Order if no tickets were captured against it or all were deleted.

Business Suite 5.1.2 [26-Nov-2013]

• [Enhancement] Works Order Tickets - Debit and Credit Note functionality
  • 'Credit Supplier' functionality enabled – similar to Debit Note functionality described at version 5.1.1 below.
  • Only positive amounts allowed at debit and credit notes.

Business Suite 5.1.1 [29-Oct-2013]

• [Enhancement] Enable Debit Note functionality on Works Order tickets

  Each works order debit note may only contain either

  (a) A positive debit quantity to be subtracted from reported quantities.

  (No financial implications, APO to be manually updated)

  or

  (b) An amount (specify full amount, not rate) to be debited.

  (Negative amounts allowed)

  Both (a) and (b) cannot be specified on the same ticket, add additional debit notes if required.

Business Suite 5.1.0 [10-Sep-2013]

• [Enhancement] Management Unit Code – The management unit code replaces the original management unit id ('Mu_Id') on all Microforest user interface elements, maps, file and device interfaces/imports and reports.
• [Enhancement] Works Order Activity Display – Activities in WO and activity selection windows are now properly sorted by activity info and landuse name.
• [Enhancement] – Works Order - Default Activity 'Work' Value
  • Select APO Activities: Existing 'WO Qty' column renamed to 'T.WO Qty' (Total WO Work), additionally a new 'I.WO Qty' column shows WO work only for the current WO's interval/month.
  • Activity 'Work' previously defaulted to total BW (i.e. Work = BWTotal), changed to use the remainder of BW not yet on WOs:
  • If APO is phased and BW in interval/period exists (BWInterval), then: Work = BWInterval - 'I.WO Qty'.
  • If APO is not phased or total allocated WO work in interval is already more than BWinterval, then: Work = BWTotal - 'T.WO Qty'
  • If no BW left at all, Work defaults to 0. User may change depending on user rights restrictions.

Business Suite 5.0.0 [02-Jul-2013]

• PM and BS versions changed to use same major release number (5).
• [Enhancement] Works Orders – Work/Prod Rates Selection
  • The Work/Qty column have been split into separate Work and Qty columns, providing the ability to specify work (e.g. ha) and production quantity (e.g. m3) for harvesting type activities.
  • The UoM column now has a drop down allowing the selection of the rate UoM – either work (e.g. ha) or production (e.g. m3) units.
  • This drop down contains the activity's 'Unit Work' and 'Unit Prod' (if applicable) unit of measure values as defined in System Tables – Activity. If 'Unit Prod' is not applicable (i.e. for non-harvesting activities) then it should be left empty/blank (not 'n/a' etc).
  • This selection drives the type of supplier rate (Work or Prod) and quantity (Work or Qty) used to calculate the works order Amount.
  • If the 'Unit Prod' UoM is selected, the rate override column is disabled, i.e. the supplier rate must be defined (to be consistent with the supplier rate picked up by a corresponding supply package ticket).
  • Works order tickets are always used to record actual work done (not production); if its works order uses a production UoM (as opposed to work UoM), then the ticket rate will be zero (i.e. supplier not paid by work units, rather by production units).

Business Suite 4.5.12 [15-May-2013]

• [Enhancement] Grid Multi-column Sort
  • Selected data grids have been enhanced to allow sorting by multiple columns. A grid with this capability is identifiable by a ^ symbol in the top left corner cell. When sorted, the ^ symbol is replaced by '…' and this cell's tooltip text displays the current active sort column names. The column sort order is determined by the order in which the columns were selected. If the Shift key is pressed when a column header is clicked, the column is added to the sort column list. If Shift is not pressed, the sort column list is cleared and the column is added to the sort column list as the first and only column. If an existing sort column is clicked (with or without pressing Shift), the column's sort order is changed from ascending to descending and vice versa.

Business Suite 4.5.11 [20-Mar-2013]

• [Enhancement] Supplier Rates – Work/Prod Distinction.
  • Operations Supplier Rates Admin - Replaced '/Log' flag with 'Work' (e.g. ha), 'Prod' (e.g m3) or '/Log' rate UoM selection. Please note that both Prod and /Log rates are not allowed for the same rate record – will result in duplicate error.
  • Updated Budget, Works Orders and Ticket supplier rate calculation processes to use appropriate supplier rate types based on the above:
  • Budget – 'Work' or 'Prod' rates based on specific activity's database setting, e.g. Prod for harvesting activities and Work for all else.
  • Works Orders – Always 'Work' type rates.
  • Supply Package Tickets – Always 'Prod' type harvesting rates.

Business Suite 4.5.10 [20-Feb-2013]

• [Enhancement] Work Standards.
  • Add activity category (Own/Contract) to work standard definition; ability to specify if work standard is applicable to only Own or Contractor activities or both. Implemented at budget generation and works order resource selection from work standards.
  • Work Standards Admin – Added filters to enhance work standards viewing and editing.
• [Bug Fix] Work Standards Admin – Some data grid columns did not sort correctly.
• [Bug Fix] Works Orders – Under some circumstances activity resources were duplicated when works orders were edited.
• [Reports]
  • System Reports / Activity Work Standards: Bug fix & Re-organised
  • Budget Detail: Export option added

Business Suite 4.5.9 [31-Jan-2013]

• [Enhancement] Work Standards Units of Measure (UoM)
  • Ability to choose the activity UoM (work (e.g. ha) or production (e.g. m3) the work standard is based on. Defaults to production unit (e.g. m3) for harvesting activities and vice versa.
  • Ability to choose the work standard UoM i.t.o. the activity and resource UoMs, i.e. <ActivityUoM><ResourceUoM> or <ResourceUoM><ActivityUoM>, e.g. ha/manday or manday/ha.
  • In addition to the work and production activity UoM, an 'Activity' type UoM is now available. When this UoM is chosen, the work standard UoM is fixed to <ResourceUoM>/Activity. When the work standard is applied, the resulting resource quantity remains constant irrespective of the quantity of activity work/production.

Business Suite 4.5.8 [07-Nov-2012]

• [Enhancement] Per Log Rates - Supplier rates may be specified as /Log as opposed to per m3/ton. Used when supply package tickets generate Harvester and Extractor transactions.

Business Suite 4.5.7 [29-Oct-2012]

• [Enhancement] Works Order – Allow activity category editing of work performed on own log suppliers/plantations. This was previously only enabled for work at outsiders.
• [Enhancement] Log Sale/Purchase Prices - Commodity products can be flagged to use sale/purchase price per log as opposed to per m3/ton.

Business Suite 4.5.6 [18-Sep-2012]

• [Bug Fix] Employee dropdown selection – Employee code added to name in dropdowns to fix selection bug when multiple employees with the same name and surname exist.
• [Enhancement] Employee Import – Resign all employees in MF not present in HR import file.
• [Enhancement] Timesheet Control – New Print button to generate time sheet control report.

Business Suite 4.5.5 [15-Aug-2012]

• [Enhancement] Logistics Teams Administration - Enhanced team member selection.
• [Enhancement] Log Supplier – New 'Department' attribute for use with financial system integration.

Business Suite 4.5.4 [01-Aug-2012]

• [Enhancement] Outside Log Supplier Link:
  • New 'Outside Log Supplier' attribute for outside log suppliers (Logistics Administration – Log Suppliers). When this is specified, the linked log supplier's compartments are also used for the current log supplier. The purpose of this is to have the same compartments shared between outside log suppliers (as is the case with own compartments on own log suppliers/plantations). This facilitates stock control on a compartment level for outsider stock entities.
  • All supply packages with outside log suppliers that are linked to a 'master' log supplier and which uses the 'automatic supply generation' feature, will automatically receive newly the added compartments (supply) of the 'master' log supplier.
• [Change] Stock Control – Allow stock movement/stock take tickets with total quantity and no product detail to update stock of commodities with more than one product; assign full quantity to first product in commodity (with smallest buckspec log id). Give indication of this on Stock Management Window with red colored In, Out or Stock take values. Previously this was only possible for commodities with one product only.
• [Fix] Handle Business Suite APO references (SP supply & WO items) when merging compartments and open areas which are on the APO.

Business Suite 4.5.3 [19-Jun-2012]

• [Enhancement] Ticket Comment added to ticket capture form. Available on all ticket types, please contact Syndicate support to enable where required.
• [Enhancement] Ticket Document Date filter. Moved up to below Capture date. Range defaults to first of month to current date.
• [Enhancement] – Human Resources:
  • Add Administration - HR Periods. Close and Open functionality pending.
  • Processing/HR Integration. Only applicable if HR interface available.
  • Timesheet capture. Add ability to select non-team members ('Other…' option in dropdown). Multiple open HR periods (previously one only), selectable on new timesheet.

Business Suite 4.5.2 [14-Jun-2012]

• [Enhancement] Sale Price based on Product Grade
  • Ability to specify more than one supply package sale commodity price definition with identifying product grade.
  • Multiple selected price definitions must have different product grades and may have an optional default price definition without a product grade.
  • New 'Grade' ticket column, selectable from lookup. Column added and lookup populated by Syndicate on client request.
  • Ticket sale price is calculated based on ticket 'Grade' column if present. If no grade is specified on ticket or specified grade does not appear in supply package price definition, then default price definition (with empty grade) will be used. An error is generated if a specific grade is specified on a ticket and corresponding or default price definition does not exist.

Business Suite 4.5.1 [13-Jun-2012]

• [Enhancement] Commodity Purchases
  • New 'Purchase Commodity' on Supply Packages; in addition to the standard sale commodity, the ability to select a purchase commodity and its price definition.
  • New 'Purchase Price' ticket field.
  • New 'Purchase Order' ticket action.

Business Suite 4.5.0 [18-May-2012]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders
  • Ability to delete works orders not authorised yet.
  • Ability to unauthorise works orders by clicking the 'Decline' button. Only one of the authorisers or their stand-ins may perform this, and only works orders not referenced by any tickets or timesheets may be unauthorised.
  • Ability to link one or more of the supplier's teams to an activity resource. This applies only to resources belonging to resource categories flagged as labour types. Please inform Syndicate which resource categories are to be flagged as such.
• [Enhancement] Teams
  • Ability to link employees to Teams. This functionality is currently only available if the optional Human Resources interface module is enabled. Employees are imported via the Human Resources interface.

Business Suite 4.4.4 [19-Mar-2012]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders
  • New works order ticket rate override column. Access controlled: Logistics/Financial  Logistics  Tickets  Override Rate.
  • Allow works order ticket quantity to exceed works order quantity if allowed by user access control: Logistics/Financial  Operations  Works Orders  Allow ticket to exceed works order quantity.
  • Automatically calculate works order Work/Qty:
  • Activity: Set equal to 'Apo BW'.
  • Resource: Set equal to activity Work/Qty * Resource Std. Automatically update all resource quantities if its activity's Work/Qty changes and the previous resource Qty value is not provided (blank), or it is based on the previous activity Work/Qty value.
  • User may overwrite calculated values.
• [Enhancement] Log Suppliers – New 'Company' attribute. Only applicable to Financial/ERP Integration Framework – may be ignored by clients not licensed for this module.
• [Enhancement] Transport Rates
  • Short haul and long haul suppliers can be specified as non-distance based if required, allowing rates without distance information to be defined (please contact Syndicate if you wish to activate this option).
  • Rates for non-distance based suppliers can now also include log supplier information. This was previously only possible for distance based suppliers.

Business Suite 4.4.3 [27-Feb-2012]

• [Enhancement] Financial/ERP Integration Framework - optional licensed module.

Business Suite 4.4.2 [18-Jan-2012]

• [Enhancement] Tally Sheet – Additional Length & Diameter check totals – similar to 'Number of Logs'. Activated on request.
• [Enhancement] Log Tag Tally sheet - Log Dimensions Lookup
  • Supply Package Administration – New functionality to link supply packages.
  • New 'Tag Lookup' button on Log Tag Tally Sheet to lookup tagged logs' dimensions.
  • All logs with tags but without dimensions in current tally sheet are searched for in other linked supply packages' tickets.
  • If the logs are found in other tickets, their dimensions are used to update the tally sheet and the corresponding tag number cells are colored green.
  • If multiple logs with different dimensions are found for a specific tag, an error indicator and message is set on the applicable row, and the tag number cell is colored red.
  • The user may still override the log's dimensions in all cases.
  • The link information is not stored and is not shown on subsequent editing of the tally sheet.
  • The lookup button is presently only available if tally double capture is not activated.
• [Bug fix] Works Order 'Notes' not displayed on window.

Business Suite 4.4.1 [26-Oct-2011]

• [Enhancement] Data Logger Interface - Additional fields: Permit No, Delivery Note No, LH & SH vehicle registration numbers.
• [Bug fix] No access to 'Logistics' menu incorrectly prevented access to 'Operations' menu.

Business Suite 4.4.0 [29-Aug-2011]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders functionality
  • Handle/improve outside log supplier and overhead activity functionality.
  • Activity selection window – add activity totals and phasing information.
  • Prevent partial WO quantity for APO activity – restricted by user rights.
  • Prevent total WO quantity to exceed total activity interval budget – restricted by user rights.
  • Print button implemented.
  • New works order item level 'instruction' field.
• [Bug fix] Works Orders
  • 'Total Amount' now showing.
  • Only list works orders for which user has log supplier and supplier access rights.
• [Enhancement] Operations Supplier Rates Administration
  • Remove budget and rate type from grid and add as filter, add 'Effective on' date filter.
  • Add commodity (not mandatory)
  • Improve handling of applicable/not-applicable columns for e.g. overheads/compt/open areas.
• [Change] Supplier Contract Rates removed and replaced by Operations Supplier Rates. All Supplier Contract Rates copied to Operations – Supplier Rates..
• [Enhancement] Supply Package – Supply/Source Compartment Selection
  • Add right-click context menu to select/unselect multiple activities/compartments.
  • Activity class is not applicable to outside compartments, thus only 'Fell' retained, 'Thin' removed.
  • Activity class and activity columns are not applicable to outsiders. These columns were removed on the selection window and supply package 'source compartments' tab.
• [Enhancement] Supply Package – New 'Auto Supply Generation' setting, when switched on:
  • 'Own' log suppliers: Automatically imports open compartments and continuously add newly opened compartments to the supply package.
  • 'Outsider' log supplier: Automatically adds newly defined outside compartments to supply packages in the current logistics plan and all budget plans (initial link still manual).
• [Enhancement] Data Logger Device Data Management
  • Additional 'Purpose' and 'Supply Package' filters.
  • Defaults to 'Selection Only', not 'All Eligible'
  • 'All eligible for specified period', i.e. now use period for this option, start and/or end date optional.
  • Ticketing performance improvement – less than 1 minute for 10,000 logs.
• [Enhancement] Main Application Window – Change dark grey background to white and make provision for simple image or html page display when logged out, or after logged in and before any other windows opened.
• [Change] Transport Rates Administration – Previously could only list/edit currently active and future rate sets. Changed to also include all rate sets created or active up to six months in the past.
• [Bug fix] Supply Package – Fix bug in Add mode that prevented 'source compartments' to be cleared when log supplier changed. This could result in incorrect compartments being linked to the supply package.
• [Bug fix] Transport Rates Administration – fixed bug that prevented a user adding a past rate set even if no rates sets existed yet.

Business Suite 4.3.1 [24-Jun-2011]

• [Enhancement] Works Orders – additional plant/prune/thin information.
• [Bug fix] Works Orders – various small bug fixes.
• [Enhancement] Data Logger Staging Management – display statistics only of specified period, not all.

Business Suite 4.3.0 [06-Jun-2011]

• [Enhancement] New Works Orders functionality. Specific documentation/training to be provided.

Business Suite 4.2.0 [01-Mar-2011]

• [Enhancement] Make provision for weighbridge moisture deduction, cubed tons functionality and columnar timber/pole quantity.
• [Enhancement] 'Budgeting' menu item renamed to 'Operations'.
• [Enhancement] Added access rights control for Logistics Administration – Weights
• [Enhancement] Background of some old grid controls displayed in black on Vista/Windows 7, changed to white.

Business Suite 4.1.0 [03-Jan-2011]

• [Enhancement] Different species and/or product set (bucking specification) compartment volumes.

  • Controlled by compartment level attribute. Disallowed by default.
  • Species can be added as new ticket column – dropdown lookup.
  • Volume write back process – If present, the allocation/transformation matrix is used to write default compartment volumes, else the new product set is used - if the compartment level attribute allows it.

• [Enhancement] Multiple compartment open activities.

  • Controlled by global setting. Disallowed by default. Activation depends on compatibility with external volume interfaces.
  • Eliminates open/close workaround to add compartment to supply package supply for more than one activity.
  • Tickets processing enhanced to handle multiple open activities on a compartment.
• [Enhancement] Administration – Provide supplier contract rates user access setting.
• [Bug Fix] Total Quantity tickets (i.e. not tally) – Generate rate error if no product price found, previously remained blank with no error.
• [Bug Fix] Weighbridge tickets only – fix bug that prevented rate calculation (with no error reported) during ticket reception from weighbridge.

Business Suite 4.0.14 [09-Nov-2010]

• [Bug Fix] Ticket Capture Window - Fix sort of dropdown columns.
• [Bug Fix] Transport Rates - Fix bug if Apply pressed when no rate set selected in dropdown after rate set deleted.
• [Enhancement] Stock – Auto assign product if 'total quantity' ticket captured. Auto zero products in stock center commodity where stock was captured for some but not all products.

Business Suite 4.0.13 [09-Sep-2010]

• [Enhancement] Generic data logger import (web services interface) - added ticket location concept and completed enhanced data logger user interface and ticketing functionality.

Business Suite 4.0.12 [24-Aug-2010]

• [Enhancement] Debit/Credit Notes
  • Change button labels to be more descriptive/informative.
  • Do not perform duplicate log tag checking for debit and credit note tickets.
  • Debit Notes
  • Allow mandatory suppliers to be cleared (i.e. not debited).
  • At least one supplier is mandatory.
  • Only the supplier(s) in 'based-on' ticket can be selected.
  • Credit Notes
  • Clear all supplier values; only customer is credited.
• [Enhancement] User Interface
  • Consistently use "Log Supplier" not "Supplier" where applicable.
  • Consistently use order: Log Supplier, Customer, Commodity.
  • Same data grids had black background on Vista & Windows 7 – use standard white.

Business Suite 4.0.11 [05-Aug-2010]

• [New] Additional system tables editing functionality. See LogisticsAdministrationOther… (similar to functionality in PM)
• [New] Vehicle Class Attribute:
  • System table administration
  • Enhanced rates setup to accommodate this.
  • Available as ticket column for long & short haul suppliers.
• [Bug fix] Budgeting – Encountered numeric overflow under certain circumstances.
• [Bug fix] Exception when "Create Dt/Ct Ticket" attempted on new ticket line.
• [Enhancement] Automatically recalculate rates before processing/invoicing.
• [Enhancement] New Extractor supplier type - similar to harvester.
• [Enhancement] New LH & SH distance override ticket columns & rate calculation.
• [Bug fix] Log Tags
  • Change certain queries to order numerically, not alphanumerically
  • Log Tag Admin UI – Some data grids' anchoring not correct
• [Enhancement] Log Tags
  • Added global setting to determine log tag batch uniqueness: company-wide or plantation/agreement number.
  • Depending on above can be used once (only in SP where issued) or multiple times (company-wide - anywhere if issued somewhere).
  • Change tab label: "Returned, Not issued Errors"  "Returned, Not Issued" (not necessarily an error)
  • Log Tag Tally - Allow empty dimensions, only if tag specified, and all or none.
• [Enhancement] Transport Rates
  • When displaying a rate set (effective on certain date), also display rates still active from previous sets (effective date column added) - previously hidden.
  • After update reload all rate sets – influence each other (see above).
  • Add filters.

Business Suite 4.0.10 [21-Jun-2010]

• [Bug fix] Re-entrancy bug encountered on supply package admin when scrolling quickly through list of supply packages.

Business Suite 4.0.9 [07-Jun-2010]

• [Enhancement] Display activity 'Code – Abbreviation' (or and/description) not Id. Also fully internationalised.

Business Suite 4.0.8 [01-Jun-2010]

• [Bug fix] Fixed error during Cr/Dr note creation.

Business Suite 4.0.7 [19-May-2010]

• [Enhancement] Add end date to stock cycle.

Business Suite 4.0.6 [03-May-2010]

• [New] Logistics Administration - Empty weight editing (Weighbridge)
• [Enhancement] Ticket processing actions - client specific.
• [Enhancement] Data logger import - allow duplicate files already imported (due to communication failures) to be deleted.

Business Suite 4.0.5 [14-Apr-2010]

• [Bug fix] Under certain circumstances ticket tally total quantity (sum of log volumes) where set to zero on display.
• [Enhancement] Allow zero stocktake product values in tally sheet. Add "Zero All Stock" button on product tally sheet.
• [Enhancement] - Display blanks for stock & variance on stock management screen where no stocktake done yet.

Business Suite 4.0.4 [26-Mar-2010]

• [Enhancement] Stock management user interface enhancements

Business Suite 4.0.3 [11-Mar-2010]

• [Enhancement] Log tag administration – add ability to view and withdraw previous plan's log tags. Log tags uniqueness now enforced across all plans (previously only current plan)
• [Enhancement] Add ability to specify different short haul distance for use with short haulers (previously only one 'long haul' distance available for all transport types)

Business Suite 4.0.2 [09-Mar-2010]

• [Enhancement] Stock management user interface enhancements

Business Suite 4.0.1 [08-Mar-2010]

• [Enhancement] Stock management user interface added

Business Suite 4.0.0 [19-Feb-2010]

• [Enhancement] The 'MF Logistics' application has been renamed to the "MF Business Suite", currently consisting of the Logistics, Budgeting and Operation modules.
• [New] Valuation module – disabled, still under development.

Logistics 3.3.5 [26-Jan-2010]

• [Enhancement] Provision for handling the new "Overhead" activity.

  • New supplier type – 'Plantation Overhead'
  • Supplier Contract administration window modified to handle this supplier type.
  • Operations tickets can be generated using this activity (same as other landuse activity operations tickets)
  • Operations resource tickets can be generated using this activity (same as other landuse activity resource tickets)
  • Budget supplier rates for this activity does not require Sp Group and Category
  • Budget work standards for this activity does not require Sp Group and Category
  • Included in budget generation.

Logistics 3.3.4 [12-Jan-2010]

• [New] Provision is made for resource based tickets.

Logistics 3.3.3 [09-Nov-2009]

• [New] New ticket type: Volume Input – Tree Volume

  • A "Defaults…" button allows the user to retrieve the volume/tree based on the compartments current (CUR) volume – if it exists.

• [Enhancement] Make provision for Loader suppliers distance-based rates

  • A new "Distance Based" attribute can be switched on for specific loaders (by default this flag is on for Long/Short haulers and cannot be switched off).
  • If this flag is on, then the loader's rates can be based on distances ("$ Rates" section).