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With Subtruct Mobile, you can use a wireless handheld device to collect data for cycle counting. To start adding data to a counts section, follow the steps below.

Creating a New Section

• Open the Substruct Mobile web application by using your mobile device’s web browser to navigate to the address listed in your preferences.
• Click on the Cycle Counts button.
• The Section List will appear. Click Add New to create a new section.
• Input a name for the section, such as “Aisle 4″ or “John’s Counts”, and click OK.

Adding Records to an Exisiting Section

• Hightlight the section you wish to add to from the Cycle Counts Section List.
• Click Edit.
• Input the stock number or UPC code into the Stock field and click Scan.Note: If you use a handheld with a built-in scanner, the Scan will get clicked automatically when you scan an item.
• The following information about the item you are counting will be displayed:
  • Description
    A description of the item.
  • Stock
    The stock number of the item.
  • Manf#
    The manufacture’s stock number for the item. His
    The date, quantity, and description of the most recent inventory history transaction (that is not from Point of Sale). This field is used when problem solving inventory problems. Here is an eample: You count an item and you determine you only have 1 on the hook. The computer says you have 7 on hand. You look at the history line and see that you received 6 yesterday. The history line helped you discover that you have 6 more, but they were stocked in the wrong location.
  • Retail
    The current retail price of the item.
  • Cost
    The most recent cost of the item.
  • OH
    The current on hand count of the item according to Cougar Mountain.
  • Min
    The minimum on hand quanitity of the item as determined by Inventory Control.
  • Dis
    The Discontinued Code of the item. This field will be blank if the item is not discontinued.
• In addition to the information above, the following things appear on this screen.
  • Camera Button
    Pressing this button will display a .jpg image of the item. Before you can use this feature, you must first have images linked to you stock items in Cougar Mountain and you must build an image file for Substruct Mobile (See corresponding article).
  • Qty Field
    This field is where you input your the correct on hand value.
  • Print Label Checkbox
    If you want to flag the item and print a label for it later, check this box.
  • Add Button
    When you are finished inputing a on hand quantity into the Qty, click this button to move to a new record.
  • Look at Section Button (Magnifying Glass)
    Pressing this button will take to a screen overlooking all of the records in the section.
  • Navigation Buttons
    Use these buttons to navigate between records. They are: First, Previous, Next, Last, and New. New will add a new record and abort any changes to the record you are currently editing.

Once you are finished inputing records to a section, you can access it in the Cycle Counts module of Substruct Utilities.