SFSD Procurement and Inventory Solution - Product Setup

Product Specifications (List and Detail)

Product Specifications contain crucial information about each product used throughout software modules of the School Food Service Director software. Product Specifications identify characteristics of each product with information such as the product description, bid specification, approved brand(s), packaging sizes, and other information necessary to uniquely identify products.

Useful tips for using this screen:

• Filtering and Sorting options may be accessed by right-clicking in any cell.
• The Quick Find textbox can be used to quickly locate an item by the first letters of the specification description.
• The Find Spec button may be used to find all occurrences of a word or partial word in all specifications in the system. An example of using this function might be to search for the occurrence of 'bean' or 'beef' in all specification descriptions.
• Inactive Flag (last column) - The Inactive setting for a specification is a systemwide setting that causes that specification not to be available to any other area of the software. If the specification needs to be available to schools on an individual basis, this can be accomplished by setting the Inactive Flag in each school Inventory Base File. Other options for item visibility (inventory and ordering) exist in the Awarded Details screen.

The Product Specifications Update screen is used to modify existing specifications or to add new specifications. Specifications can be added by selecting the Add New button from the Specifications List screen. Specifications may be modified by double clicking the mouse pointer on the record to be modified. As seen below, multiple brands and packaging configurations may be defined for each specification.

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