Stock Setup for NVS

For Electronic Ordering you need to set some options to identify any orders you send electronically.

From the main Stock menu select the following options:

Enter the supplier number you have allocated to NVS.

The screen will display all the 'setup' options e.g.

Supplier name  : NVS

Telephone No   :
Other Number   : 01782873518
Modem number   : 
Customer ref.  :  12345 
Electronic ref : 2 
Security  ID   :
Batch Update   : 000
Purchase No.   :   0       
Discount       :   0.0    

The only options you need to set on this screen for NVS are the Customer reference and make sure the 'Electronic Ref' is set to 2.

If you are using a single server and have completely different customer codes for each branch you should use a params.txt entry.

   Stock_Order_Ref_X = reference

Where X in the above related to the branch number, e.g.
your Ref code for Branch 1 is 12345, Branch 2 is 44588 and branch 5 is 71266; you would have the following entries.

   Stock_Order_Ref_1 = 12345
   Stock_Order_Ref_2 = 44588
   Stock_Order_Ref_5 = 71266

For sites where you have multiple suppliers (and optionally multiple branches) you can use Stock_Order_Site_BRANCH_SUPPLIER e.g. for branch 2, supplier 5 you would use: Stock_Order_Site_2_5 = username.

Batch Number Pickup

This is offered either via modem or the Internet from NVS.

The modem number used for batch pickup is different to that used for ordering. This should be entered in the 'Other Number' field - at the time of writing it is 01782873518.

Make sure NVS know you will be doing Batch Number pickup as they do have to enable it on your account.

You will be asked if this is a Retry or a New Call

Select Retry only if you tried earlier the same day and the system failed to collect the list.

With multiple NVS accounts, you will be asked to select the account required. See below for various params.txt entries relating to multi-site and multi-location sites.

Note: Internet Ordering does need the OS Utility ncftp installed - available from support.

Params.txt Entries

If you have multiple locations, for batch number pickup you can set the following params.txt options:

NVS_On-line+BRANCH = username 

NVS_On-line+1 = username #  Branch 1 Setting
NVS_On-line+2 = username #  Branch 2 Setting
NVS_On-line+3 = username #  Branch 3 Setting

You may also have multiple suppliers for NVS, that is supplier 1 may be Large Animal, Supplier 4; Small Animal and Supplier 7 for Equine goods. You can again set some params.txt entries:

NVS_On-line+BRANCH_Supplier = username

NVS_On-line+1_1 = username #  Branch 1 - Supplier 1 - LA
NVS_On-line+1_7 = username #  Branch 1 - Supplier 7 - EQ 
NVS_On-line+3_5 = username #  Branch 3 - Supplier 5

Other Params.txt Entries

There are some other entries that can be changed. The default is shown in the table below and will only need changed if the wholesaler tells you to:

Note: NVS made a few changes to thier system at the start of 2009, as of Version3 of Premvet the defaults were changed to reflect this. For sites running the older version 2 you should use the params.txt details below - V3 sites will be prompted for User ID and the other details will be set for you.

User Name	NVS_url_user	=	YOUR NAME
URL for placing the order	NVS_url_pass	=	YOUR PASSWORD
Price Update Path	NVS_URL_Path	=	/nvsmembers/priceupdatesdiscs/654asdiu15/vetfile1.001

The options below are available but are currently not needed.

URL for Price Updates	NVS_URL_Site	=	http://www.vetwholesaler.co.uk
Price Update File	NVS_URL_File	=	vetfile1.001

URI » http://www.premvet.co.uk/ • Updated » Fri Jan 9 16:10:13 GMT 2009 by twm