The FORD OPERATIONS Menu is displayed when you select Manufacturer systems and FO company from the main menu.
Advice note menu: Allows you to upload and convert the manufacturer's advice file, view or print advice data, link the data to Purchase Control and produce exception reports. This is normally set up as a priority 5 option.
Labour times menu: Allows you to upload Ford Labour Operation Number (LON) codes, texts and times to the Autoline system, carry out maintenance of labour time records, and set up model groups to identify which time slot to use for a LON code. This is normally set up as a priority 5 option.
Menu pricing menu: Allows you to set up and maintain your menu pricing software, upload and convert Ford menu pricing data and Smile prices on the Autoline system, display and print menus, create and maintain fixed prices and discounts, make additional items available to menus, and view file usage statistics. This is normally set up as a priority 5 option.
Parts price file menu: Allows you to upload and maintain master price and supersession files, update the stock file from the price file, and build a supersession chain from the master price file. This is normally set up as a priority 5 option.
Ford OWS: Allows you to display and maintain claims, submit them, amend claims.
Warranty menu: Allows you to maintain claim records and transfer them to the Ford Global Warranty Entry (GWE) system.
Download stock order: Downloads stock order files generated within Purchase Control to the Batch Communications Module (BCM) PC ready for transfer to Ford. This is normally set up as a priority 3 option.
Load price file & update MLIs: Allows you to update Ford Major Line Item (MLI) codes on the price file
MLI codes: Allows you to display and maintain Ford MLI codes
General utilities: Gives you access to the standard MS Utilities. This is normally set up as a priority 8 option.
Franchise data menu: Allows you to update the franchise data module in the Autoline System
Accounts composites: Provides a method of generating and electronically transferring the monthly composite file to Alison Associates. This is normally set up as a priority 7 option.
Surcharge returns menu: Enables you to create, amend, and delete return labels, view and set return label parameters, access the returns file and the expiry period mapfile, upload or import return label data, and generate reports of return labels nearing expiry, ignored labels, labels with blank expiry dates, and available labels.
VISTA/OTD: Enables you to use the Vehicle Order Acknowledgments interface
REACT extract: Extracts Point of Sale and Vehicle Stock Book invoices daily and sends them to Ford via the BCM server
FOCALpt: A web-based showroom product that integrates with Ford's internal systems. FOCALpt searches the DMS for customer details and facilitates CRM database synchronisation with CUPID.
Local Distribution Centre: Automatically sends parts requirements to the EPDS (European Parts Distribution System) at regular intervals. A scheduled task scans the Purchase Control transactions database for any orders flagged with a special EPDS order status and collates them into a single purchase order.
eCat menu: Interface handling requests for prices and stock information on parts, menus and labour items from the Ford eCat electronic parts catalogue