Feature Overview: Item Views

Feature Overview: Item Views


Views in Yellow Dog Inventory provide unique perspectives on your inventory items, helping you find the right information and make informed decisions.

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 Item Management > inventory Items > View dropdown

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Use views to display relevant inventory item inventory when reviewing item data.


There are 25 views available in Yellow Dog Inventory.
By design you will not have access to every view; only the ones that cater to your workflow.

Below we will provide a brief explanation of each view. The workflow each view is catered towards will be indicated as follows:

                                    Black= Any Client Type

                                    Blue = Food and Beverage

                                    Green = Retail

                                    Purple = Concessions

* Certain views were added in recent versions and may not be available in select versions prior to 377.

  1. ​Classic: This is the generalized view that provides basic item information.

  1. Standard: Similar to the Classic View but does not provide on-hand quantities. This is intended for clients with large data sets to decrease loading times.

  1. Classic FnB: Geared towards Food & Beverage operations to provide the most relevant information for their workflows.

  1. All Stores: This shows on hands for each store that the user has access to.

  1. All Stands: Presents item details for stand items, including current on hand for each stand.

  1. Stand Items: Displays all items that are categorized as stand items (have been assigned to at least one stand).

  1. Activity: This shows event dates for the items: Created, First Received, Last Received, First Sale, Last Sale and Recent Session.

  1. Expiration: This view shows items with expiration dates set, how much is expired, and the oldest and newest expiration dates for each item.

  1. Locations: Provides location details and is the only view where locations can be assigned to items.

  1. Recipe/Kit/Batch Items Only: Displays all inventory items with a recipe attached along with the recipes they are attached to, their ingredients, cost, and how they behave in the system.

  1. Interface Codes (as of last sync): Shows all pertinent interface information as of the last sync and is highly dependent on your POS setup.

  1. Merchandiser: Allows you to filter items by dimensions.

  1. Parent/Child: Brings up all items with on-hand/other size relationships.

  1. Purchasing Eligible Sizes: Displays all item sizes that have been marked as available to purchase.

  1. Transfer Eligible Sizes: Includes all items sizes that can be transferred between stores.

  1. Vendor Products: Displays all item sizes that have associated vendor products.

  1. SKU, Vendor SKU and UPCs: Shows basic info, plus SKU, Vendor SKU & UPC.

  1. Attributes: Displays items that have an item attribute assigned.

  1. Web Items: Includes items that are push to and/or pull sales data from an interfaced web cart.

  1. Problem Items: Brings up items with issues. This view is a precursor to Watch Dog, and we recommend using Watch Dog which scans for a wider range of issues.

  1. Facility: Shows all items within a facility.

  1. Not Available To Store: Presents all items not available to the selected store.

  1. Ingredient Items: Lists items marked as an ingredient item.

  1. Count Sheets: Allows you to see the count sheet(s) assigned to each item.

  1. Interactive View: Allows you to directly edit select inventory item details. This view saves changes automatically, so take cautions when making any edits.

 




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