If you wish to label your ordered products with prices and bar codes, Service Suite provides you with the opportunity to create such labels based on a purchase order.

This is used in many companies as an integrated part of receiving ordered products. Besides making sure that all your products are labeled, this provides an easy way of validating the delivered products against the purchase order. If you print the price labels from the purchase order, it will immediately be apparent whether the delivered products matches the ordered products.

Let's take a closer look at how a price labeling report can be created in Service Suite.

In order to create a price labeling report for your purchase orders, you must be located in the list of purchase orders. This is done by selecting the menu: "Purchases" from the "Main menu".

Here you select: "Print order" from the icon bar, which will launch this dialog:

In order to create a new report we press the button: "New" which will launch the Report Designer in Service Suite:

In this dialog we enter name and description of the report, and select that the report should be of the type: "Purchase order labels". In this case we wish to print the report on a label sheet, which is why we press the tab: "Paper settings" and select the paper size to A4. We also need to press the tab: "Margins" in order to define the margins of our label sheet. The tab: "Labels" is where we enter the definition of our labels. When we press this tab the dialog will look like this:

When these settings have been defined we press the button: "OK", which will allow us to design the report itself:

As many other articles on this site describes how to insert fields on a report, we will skip those steps in this case, and just show how our details section looks, after we have inserted some fields.

This is what our price label will look like. We have inserted a bar code on the label as we wish to be able to easily create new stock counts and sales orders in Service Suite.

Now we have defined our report we select: "Save and close" from the menu, and we can select our new report from the list:

In this dialog you select your new report and press the button: "Print preview", which will launch our report:

As this report shows 2 pcs. of the product: "PRN001" was ordered, 5 pcs. of "PRN004" and so on.

These labels can then be printed and attached to the received products. If there are too few or too many labels you will know right away that the received products does not match your purchase order.

When the products has been received and the price labels printed, you will often select to archive you purchase order. How this is done is described in another article on this site.