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Computer Solutions, Inc.
ORDER POWER!
Users Conference 2006

Agenda       

Day 1 – Wednesday, March 1, 2006

 

Time

Oceanview North

Oceanview South

9:00 am
10:00 am

1. iSeries, and ORDER POWER!
(continues at 1:30)

2. A primer on iSeries Query
(Query 400)

10:00 am
10:30 am

Break - Fountainview Conference Lobby

10:30 am
11:30 am

3. iSeries to PC

A primer on iSeries Query
(continued)

12:00 pm
1:30 pm

Lunch - Fountainview Conference Lobby

1:30 pm 
2:30 pm

1. iSeries, and ORDER POWER!(continued)

4. ORDER POWER! The Big Picture

2:30 pm
3:00 pm

Break - Fountainview Conference Lobby

3:00 pm
4:00 pm

 

4. ORDER POWER! The Big Picture
(continued)

6:00 pm
8:00 pm

Welcoming reception - Fountainview Conference Lobby
(So. Florida casual)

Day 2 – Thursday, March 2, 2006

8:00am
9:00am

Registration                        Fountainview Conference Lobby
Continental Breakfast      Palm Garden Dining Room

9:00 am 
10:15 am

Opening Remarks – Oceanview North
highlighting the newest ORDER POWER! enhancements

10:15 am 
10:45 am

Break - Fountainview Conference Lobby

Time

Oceanview North

Oceanview South

Director’s Room

10:45 am -
11:45 am

5. Create HTML emails

6. Working with Trading Partner Profiles 

7. A 60-minute drill on Selling More with ORDER POWER! 

12:00 pm 
1:30 pm

Lunch - Fountainview Conference Lobby

1:30 pm 
2:30 pm

8. Gift Certificates

9. Extended Customer Service (reships, even exchanges, credits) 

10. Bill Me Later

2:30 pm 
3:00 pm

Break - Fountainview Conference Lobby

3:00 pm 
4:00 pm

11. Consolidated Warehousing 

12. Varsity Logistics

13. Computer Connectivity 

4:00 pm 
4:30 pm

User Conference Meeting - Oceanview North

6:00 pm
10:15 pm

User Conference Dinner on the beach

Private sessions are available throughout the day.   Please sign up at Users Conference registration desk.

Day 3 – Friday, March 3, 2006

8:00am
9:00am

Continental Breakfast                   Palm Garden Dining Room

Time

Oceanview North

Oceanview South

Director’s Room

  9:00 am 
10:00 am

14. ORDER POWER! WebFacing

15. Company Set Up 

16. Gift Messages, Future Pricing and WorksRight

10:00 am 
10:30 am

Break - Fountainview Conference Lobby

10:30 am -
11:30 am 

17. Forecasting

18. Coupons & Promotions

19. Credit Card Processing

12:00 pm
1:30 pm

Lunch - Fountainview Conference Lobby

1:30 pm 
2:30 pm

20. Synchronize/Refresh Files

21. Web Store Round table

22. A/R Adjusting Entries

2:30 pm 
3:00 pm

Break - Fountainview Conference Lobby

3:00 pm
4:00 pm

20. Synchronize/Refresh Files(continued)

 23. Ask the Experts

 

Private sessions are available throughout the day.   Please sign up at Users Conference registration desk.

1. iSeries, and ORDER POWER!
Speakers:  Ferdinand Ysibido and Tony Baldor

Review of basic iSeries commands and functions as they relate to ORDER POWER! and overall system maintenance.

  • Creating a mass mailing using Query and MS Word

  • Using the iSeries as a file server (for example, to store Excel and Word documents)

  • Exporting ORDER POWER! data to MS Excel

  • Managing the iSeries using IBM's graphical Operations Navigator

  • Importing an iSeries spoolfile into MS Word

  • Managing User Profiles, Job descriptions, Device descriptions, Output queues, User Groups, OS/400, software fixes

  • Monitoring performance and disk usage

  • What is WRKACTJOB?  WRKUSRJOB?

  • System Backup


2. A primer on iSeries Query (Query 400)
Speaker:   Gene Monroe

This session will give attendees an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with IBM Query/400, a decision support utility that can be used to obtain information from the iSeries Database.  The session will focus on addressing the steps necessary to understand and create your own Query with information stored in the ORDER POWER! database to produce reports.

  •  What are Physical and Logical Files?

  •  ORDER POWER! file and field naming conventions

  •  Query Definition Options:

    • Specify file selection
    • Define result fields
    • Select and sequence fields
    • Select records
    • Select sort fields
    • Specify report column formatting
    • Select report summary functions
    • Define report breaks
    • Select output type and output form
    • Specify processing options
  • Examples and Exercises


3. iSeries to PC
Speaker:  Lew Pollack

Review of some basic iSeries commands and functions as they relate to using ORDER POWER! data with PC applications.

  • Creating a mass mailing using Query and MS Word

  • Using the iSeries as a file server (for example, to store Excel and Word documents)

  • Importing ORDER POWER! data into MS Excel

  • Managing the iSeries using IBM's graphical Operations Navigator

  • Importing an iSeries spoolfile into MS Word


4. ORDER POWER! The Big Picture
Speakers:  Marv Smith, Debbie Vernon, and Lew Pollack

How do the ORDER POWER! applications connect to one another.  Where are the interfaces and how do you know if the data has been transferred between modules.


5. How to use Email effectively, Strategies for success including HTML emails
Speakers:  Bonnie Rogers

Everything you need to understand about emails from setup/configurations through distribution. Emails can be sent to confirm orders, bids, shipments, refunds, cancellations, phase-outs etc. Emails can also be sent to inform clients of credit card transactions, FTC notices and marketing specials.


6. Working with Trading Partner Profiles
Speaker:  Lew Pollack

Learn to set up Trading Partner Profiles for Customers and Vendors who you want to receive faxes or EDI information from ORDER POWER!. 


7. A 60-minute drill on Selling More with ORDER POWER!
Speaker:  Ernie Smith

How to deploy marketing techniques to sell more with ORDER POWER!.


8. Gift Certificates
Speaker:  Connie Church

Gift certificates are the perfect solution for those who just can't seem to find the right gift or have waited till the last minute.  Learn how to set up, sell, and redeem Gift Certificates in ORDER POWER!.


9. Extended Customer Service (reships, even exchanges, credits)
Speaker: Bonnie Rogers

Orders which are created using the customer service (Order Inquiry) options “E=Even Exchange C=Credit R=Reship” re-use the information in the originally validated order. It is not necessary to validate the information again, so the upload process will create these orders more quickly.


10. Bill Me Later
Speakers:  Beth Rosenberg 

Bill Me Later is a secure and convenient payment method designed for the web, which provides the flexibility of paying without using a credit card.  Bill Me Later is offered through Chase Bank USA, N.A. and managed by I4 Commerce Inc., a company with expertise in developing and managing payment solutions.


11. Consolidated Warehousing
Speaker: Connie Church

If a single physical warehouse is shared by more than one ORDER POWER! company, and each company owns separate Inventory, you can now manage warehouse locations at a system level, rather than at a company level.  This makes it easy to assign locations to companies as needed, without duplication.


12. Varsity Logistics 
Charlie Hawkins

Case Study:  Grizzly Increases Volume, Decreases Costs with Varsity Logistics and ORDER POWER! Varsity and ORDER POWER! customer, Grizzly Industrial, Inc. is one of the largest machinery companies in the U.S. With a promise to “ship 99% of all orders the same day” and a million square feet of warehouse space, Grizzly looked to ORDER POWER! and Varsity for ERP and shipping solutions that integrated seamlessly to optimize automation and provide system flexibility. This case study documents how Grizzly utilizes Varsity ShipSoft integrated with ORDER POWER! to greatly increase operational efficiencies and enhance customer service.


13. Computer Connectivity
Speaker:  Stan Galper

Learn more about iSeries networks, interfaces with PCs, iSeries, and other platforms.


14. ORDER POWER! WebFacing
Speakers: 
Lew Pollack and David Scorca

You can now run ORDER POWER! as a web application with Internet Explorer.  No other desktop software is required, eliminating the need to install Client Access on PC desktops.  This also makes it much easier to extend ORDER POWER! to remote web users.


15. Company Set Up
Speaker: Gary Winstel

How to tweak the Company Profile to make it work for your needs. Learn how to use ORDER POWER! more efficiently, and what all those parameters really do.


16. Gift Messages, Future Pricing and WorksRight
Speaker: Darren D’Cunha

  • A new function key in Order Entry pops up a window to insert a gift message. 
  • Address, carrier Route and Delivery Point Bar Code can be maintained for customers and prospects, and can be maintained automatically if you have the Worksright address correction software.
  • Create, update and retrieve Future pricing batches.

17. Forecasting
Speaker:  Luis Larrazabal

Learn to predict the future demand of your products and automate the product replenishment process.  We'll discuss both methods of forecasting:

  • Forecasting Product Demand 
  • Time Series Analysis

Plus, when to use one method versus the other.


18. Coupons & Promotions
 Speaker:  Connie Church

When is a Coupon not a Coupon?  When it’s a Promotion.  Learn how to offer and accept Coupons and Promotions in ORDER POWER!.


19. Credit Card Processing
Speakers:  David Scorca and Ferdinand Ysibido

Complete discussion of authorization functionality in ORDER POWER! including:

  • Manual Authorization
  • Settlements
  • Clear Authorization
  • Declined Authorizations
  • Real-time vs. batch

20. Synchronize/Refresh Files
Speaker:  Ferdinand Ysibido, Debbie Vernon, and Marv Smith

The Synchronize/Refresh Files Menu allows the user to recreate or synchronize specific files whose integrity has been compromised by some outside factor (i.e. system/power failure or changes in operating standards).


21. Web Store Round table
Speakers: Uri Nathanson, Tony Baldor, Andrea Bentley

One of the best ways to learn how to leverage Web Store functionality is to talk directly with those who have already done so successfully.  This session offers a great opportunity to do just that. 


22. A/R Adjusting Entries
Speakers: Gary Winstel

Keep your A/R clean. This presentation will demonstrate the functionality within ORDER POWER! to adjust each customer account, to move overpayments on orders to underpayments on other orders.  The topics to be discussed are:
  • Adjust Customers with Zero Balance only
  • Match Offsetting Shipments within orders
  • Match Offsetting Balance within Customer
  • Adjust within Customer (Adjusting Entries)

23. Ask the Experts
Speakers:  Gary Winstel, Uri Nathanson, Bonnie Rogers and Stan Galper

Open topic Question and Answer session. Learn from the questions presented by other ORDER POWER! users.  Ask anything that you want to learn about.


Computer Solutions, Inc.
providing Order Management and eCommerce software
for multi-channel merchants

6187 NW 167th Street, Suite H33
Miami Lakes, Florida  33015
Phone:  305-558-7000
Fax: 305-557-0003