Utilities Reference¶
Compiled from the product literature and fact sheets on leahyconsulting.com.
Each Pulse utility follows the same pattern: export from Macola® to Excel, edit with Excel’s full power, import back — validated and fast. Here is the family at a glance, grouped by the work it does.
Master file maintenance¶
| Utility | What it does |
|---|---|
| Item Master & Item/Location | Mass changes and additions to item master, item/location, customer item, vendor item and routing files — roughly 200 selectable fields (IMITMIDX, IMINVLOC, OECUSITM, POITMVND, SRRTGFIL/SRDTLFIL) |
| All-In-One Master File | Changes to your Macola® master files in minutes — more than thirty data files from a single utility |
| Bill of Material | Mass changes to existing bills of material, or create new ones — 200 bills in one pass instead of keying them one by one |
| Customer File | Mass changes and additions to customer files |
| Customer Price Code | Mass changes and additions to customer price code files — all eight price codes at once |
Planning & finance¶
| Utility | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sales Forecast | Maintain your Macola® MRP sales forecast or Master Schedule from Excel; imports from ForecastPro supported |
| General Ledger Budget | Create and maintain your G/L budget file from Excel (Macola® ES and 10) |
| General Ledger Journal Entry | Create and import monthly journal entries |
| Accounts Payable Invoices | Import vendor invoices, expense invoices and purchase-order invoices — no more one-by-one keying |
Production¶
| Utility | What it does |
|---|---|
| POP Order Import & Release | Create POP production orders from Excel and release them in mass; change due dates on released, printed or partially reported orders |
| Production Tracking | Operation tracking for POP customers who do not want to run Shop Floor Control |
| Real-Time Available-To-Ship | Automatically recalculates quantity available-to-ship from the customer’s needed date |
| Monthly Inventory Snapshot | Automatically captures on-hand quantities and costs each month for future reference |
Banking¶
| Utility | What it does |
|---|---|
| ACH Payment Processing | Pay vendors by electronic funds transfer (Macola® Progression) |
| Positive Pay Extract | Prevents Accounts Payable and payroll fraud — creates the check-issue file your bank verifies against |
Each utility name links to its official fact sheet (PDF). Utilities work with Macola® Progression and ES (the G/L Budget utility also supports Macola 10), and all of them include unlimited training and support.
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