Release Notes > V3 Release 5 build 235

Overview of this release
This release features many enhancements to improve and extend Communique’s capabilities making it more useful than ever. Days out of stock (DOOS) tracking, persistent column displays, Check out by Amazon (CBA) settlement support have been added to this release along with 2 new reports.

The following is a summary of significant enhancements and fixes for this release. Not all improvements or fixes are listed.

General Enhancements or Fixes

•Buyer Phone: The buyer phone number has been added as an optional column for display in all buyer reports.

•Dashboards: All dashboards support persistent filters. Any filter option selected from the “General” tab is retained for use when Communique restarts and will continue to display results using those filter options until they are changed or reset.

•Import Product Data: Added the CatID, BrndID, and ProdStatus fields to the field mappings so you can update this data using an external data file.

•Persistent Column Display: When selecting and displaying optional columns for the report, those columns will be continue to be displayed until you toggle them off. Each time you start Communique, those optional columns will continue to be displayed until you toggle them off.

•Replenishment Reports: All replenishment reports support the days out of stock (DOOS) functionality. Toggle on this option via the data filters for each report to apply DOOS to sales velocity calculations.

•Update Cogs for Orders: Added a SKU filter so you can limit to the update to a specific product. This can be very useful when you change the cost for an item and want to recalculate orders having the SKU.

•Zero Sales Filter: This new filter for various reports, suppresses any zero value sale. These include non-amazon fulfillment's and product replacement orders from FBA. You can toggle this filter off any time to view zero sales orders.

Days out of Stock (DOOS)

The ASC Integrator will track days out of stock (DOOS) for any SKU whose quantity on hand is 0 and continue to track it until new stock is received (MFN and AFN items are tracked separately). Knowing the number of days an SKU is out of stock during a selected period can be important especially if you are selling on a market like Amazon where you cannot sell an item if it’s out of stock. Using DOOS with your replenishment reports will improve your sales projections, reorders, and anticipated stocking levels for each SKU.

The Inventory Monitor works with Communiqué for ASC to provide DOOS data which can be used for many of the inventory reports like the Product Replenishment, SKU Analyzer and various other replenishment reports.

New Reports

•Days out of Stock Analyzer: This report can be found in the Products and FBA section. There is separate report for each.

Product Replenishment Reports

•Listing Date: The listing date (MFN and AFN) is considered when calculating sales velocity for products. If the listing date is greater than the start date then the listing date is used instead so the report does not count days the item was not available for sale (do not confuse this with days out of stock (DOOS)).

•New Filters: The “Rec RPoint <> RPoint” and “Level <> RPoint” so you can quickly locate products whose reorder point or stocking level has changed.

Other Report Enhancements & Fixes

•Product Sales by Date

•Added the SU GM and SU GM % columns to this report. These calculated values represent the gross margin and gross margin percent of the item when sold as a single unit on an order.

•Transaction Summary by Item

•Added Adjustment type to the report.