Notes from the order desk
Plain notes on order entry for small and midsize shops: what the hours are worth, how a PO becomes an Order, what the EDI sets mean, how STRYKE gets into an ERP, and what the five questions ask. No news, no hype, one date on each.
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Order entry, retired: what a shop gets back
A 200-document month, worked through with the same arithmetic the dashboard uses, and what the asterisk after the dollars means.
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From a PO in the inbox to an order in the ERP
The six steps between a buyer's email and an Order in your ERP, with the acknowledgment on its way back, and what makes STRYKE stop and ask.
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EDI 850, 855 and 856 for job shops, in plain words
What each transaction set is, when the reply is due, where the chargebacks come from, and why a small shop does not need a translator.
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Three ways into an ERP: API, import file or the runner
Every ERP a shop runs has a door STRYKE can use. Which one it is, what to have ready, and what STRYKE does when it cannot ask the ERP a question.
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The five questions that give a shop its own savings plan
What /demo asks, word for word, what each answer drives, and why there is no sixth question.
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