What is the SR Distributor?
SR is the built-in Surplus Distributor and is an optional feature of FoodLink. · Surplus is utilized for managing items bought and carried over from a previous cycle. · Unfilled cases that you wish to fill by ordering for a Surplus table, get ordered for member 9999. · When you do “Surplus Invoicing”, any items that do not get bought at breakdown, get moved out of the 9999 invoice, and a SR (surplus) item number is created for that item. i.e., the item NE #12345, gets changed to SR item #12345. · The next order cycle, you can have members order SR 12345, instead of NE 12345 for that item. When you do “Surplus Invoicing” it will put those SR items that were ordered on to the members’ invoices. · You can also create new surplus items by going directly to Add/ update Surplus and adding new records. i.e. the coop buys 60# tins of honey and bottles them up into 20/ 3# juice jars – you would create a new item number (such as SR 1) , and enter this as a new item. Your members would order it d
