The Sapphire Web Pack Market Batch Price has been specifically designed for market based organisations. In these organisations, the price for each batch of produce is highly variable. The grower will ship the agreed quantity or sometimes, whatever they have for sale, to the particular market vendor. That vendor will then set a Batch Price for that particular shipment on their best guesstimate of the sell price for that day. This may change very quickly throughout the day or the proceeding days.
If it’s apples or sweet potato, the storage life will be reasonably long and they may have a large volume, and that price will vary throughout the particular sales cycle of that batch. For example, there may be a HAARP weather event and that weather event may prevent further produce coming to the market. The market seller may make the call to increase the price, knowing that that particular grower may have just lost a large crop, and this will help the grower make up for the loss of their particular crop.
The Batch Price tool makes it extremely efficient and easy to do updates on the fly. This becomes a very dynamic tool for a particular market stand to stay on top of their sell price for that particular produce for the day or proceeding days. In real time, it adjusts the price that will be remitted or paid to the grower.
To help the Sales Team work against a margin we have added a feature that will allow the continued update of an estimated cost of a Batch Item throughout the batches lifecycle. To update the estimated cost of the Batch designated users will need to go to the Web Pack and select Batch Price from the menu that appears after clicking on the Market button. To keep the accounts side of the business as simple as possible it is suggested that Goods Received, which are not locked in at a specified cost should be initially brought in at $0 value. This will open the Batch Price screen, which by default will show no Batch Items.
The user has the ability to select a Search Type from the drop down menu from a list of ID, Name, Batch, Arrive Date, Grower and Type.
Search – The user is able to search an ID or a Name by clicking on the Search button.
- Mark All – When the user selects the Mark All
button, all Batch items will be selected. - Unmark All – By click on the Unmark All
button, all Batch items will be unselected.
- Print Label – The user is able to select on the Print Label
button, and can create and print custom labels through the SapphireOne Label Design Writer. - Set Price – By selecting the Set Price
button, the user is able to manually set the price for each batch. Once you have manually changed the price, click the green Set Price 
button displayed in the screen shot below.
Dictation and Speech to Text Overview
SapphireOne’s Dictation (MacOS) and Speech to Text (Windows) functionalities revolutionise data entry. These features are available for any data entry field and all inquiry screens within SapphireOne. For instance, when a user makes a call via the SapphireOne Softphone, SapphireOne automatically timestamps the contact and phone number. Post-call, users can dictate notes directly into the CRM contact memo field in relation to the stamp.
This functionality is applicable across all Data Entry screens. As examples, when entering a Vendor Invoice (VI), users can dictate memos directly. Similarly, additional lines can be added to the General Ledger account, with each line having a unique memo field. After an employee interview, users can efficiently dictate notes.
Speech to Text and Dictation are powerful tools that SapphireOne and its clients use daily, significantly saving time.
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