Below is a list of tips and tricks for the Receipt course. Click one of the items below to see information that may be helpful to you as you take the course.
To be able to get a correct bar code label, i.e., with bar code lines, a specific font must be installed. The font file is called 3of9.ttf and is included in the training material.
To install the font file on a PC:
1. Place the file where it can easily be accessed by all PCs, e.g. , on the
training server.
2. Open the Control Panel (via Settings) in the Windows Start menu. Find the
Fonts icon and open the folder.
3. On the Operations menu, point to File/Install New Font.
4. Find the 3of9.ttf file by clicking Network or in the Folder field.
Select the file and click OK.
The EDI exercises are meant to be performed in a single database, using two different sites within the same company. In order to perform the exercises, the following data must be entered in advance in IFS/Connectivity:
Enter a database site in the Installation Site window. No database link is needed.
Add two receiver addresses in the Message Receiver window. The addresses should be linked to the database site entered earlier. These addresses are used as sending addresses for the message function via Message Handling System (MHS).
Open the Configuration/Parameters window and select ON in the Value field for the Connectivity Inbox process available and the Connectivity Outbox process available. Also indicate a startup interval for the inbox and the outbox; the interval values are stated in seconds.
Open the Message Class window and populate. Click True in the Send and Receive lists for the relevant messages.
The following EDI messages are available in IFS Applications for IFS Distribution:
| EDI Message | Description |
| ORDERS | Purchase order message sent from the customer to the supplier. |
| ORDCHG | Purchase order change message sent whenever the customer wants to add or update any data on the previously sent purchase order. |
| ORDRSP | Customer order confirmation message, sent from the supplier to the customer as a confirmation on the received purchase order. |
| DIRDEL | Delivery note message, sent from the supplier to the customer indicating that the ordered parts are dispatched. |
| DESADV | Dispatch advise message, sent from the supplier to the customer indicating that the ordered parts are dispatched. |
| INVOIC | Customer invoice message, sent from the supplier to the customer that could be used as a regular invoice. |
| DELSCH | Supplier schedule message sent from the customer and will be converted into a customer schedule at the supplier site. |
| RECADV | Receiving advice message sent from the customer to the supplier as a confirmation of arrived and approved quantities and dates. |
| SBIINV | Self-billing message sent from the customer to the supplier that informs the supplier about invoiced price, quantity and dates. |
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain data integrity. Your site should be linked to company 10. The objective should be that you should never process data in sites 1 or 2 as these are the reference or teacher sites.
If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that each student's data be isolated in a unique site.
If you have not created your own site in the current course database, see the general exercise for Site for instructions.
If you are an instructor, additional information is available about the Racing database, which is the database used by all IFS Training Materials.
The Racing database contains different data layers, including the following two layers that form the foundation of the database:
To see more information about the Racing database, including a link to documentation for the RTUBE data layer, see Racing Database in IFS Training Help.