RPM ACU – October 2024 New Features and Enhancements
The October 2024 RPM ACU Connector release delivers a collection of new enhancements and features designed to improve functionality and elevate your overall experience. Below, you’ll find an overview of the key highlights included in this release:
RPM Pricing in Opportunities
The RPM ACU Connector now extends its pricing capabilities to Opportunities within Acumatica. You can create Opportunity Transactions and leverage RPM Pricing, similar to how it functions with Sales Quotes, Orders, and Invoices. This new feature enables you to view RPM-calculated Price Adjustments, View Diagnostics, and Recalculate Prices based on RPM’s pricing calculations seamlessly.
Override Acumatica Currency Conversion
A new checkbox, Override Acumatica Currency Conversion, has been added to the RPM Settings. When this checkbox is selected, Acumatica’s currency conversion process is bypassed. This is useful for situations where currency conversion is managed and tracked entirely within RPM, preventing Acumatica from performing any additional conversions. This feature is especially helpful if your currency pricing is maintained in RPM and you want to ensure consistency without Acumatica intervening.
RPM ACU – September 2024 New Features and Enhancements
The September 2024 RPM ACU Connector release delivers a collection of new enhancements and features designed to improve functionality and elevate your overall experience. This release focuses on delivering powerful updates that empower your team to work smarter and more efficiently. Below, you’ll find an overview of the key highlights included in this release:
Data Sync Enhancements
The Data Sync process in RPM has undergone significant enhancements and a comprehensive redesign to improve efficiency, flexibility, and reliability. New features like Sync Map Preview, Sync Sets, and Sync Connectors have been introduced to streamline data synchronization between various systems. These updates provide more precise control, faster data processing, and enhanced troubleshooting capabilities, ensuring that your data is always up-to-date and accurately reflected across platforms.
RPM Sync Queues
A new page was created, RPM Sync Queues. The RPM Sync Queues will capture any Data Sync records that are processing, and will clear once they have passed to RPM. If a data sync does not complete, that record will remain in RPM Sync Queues and provides additional details on why the sync has failed.
RPM Settings – Get Price Input Option
A new setting. Get Price Input Option, has been added to RPM Settings, providing two choices for input values: Use Technical Record ID and Use Friendly Record Number.
•Use Technical Record ID: Utilizes the traditional identifiers, commonly known in RPM as the ERPID (e.g., CustomerID, ItemID).
•Use Friendly Record Number: Opts for more user-friendly identifiers, such as CustomerNumber and ItemName, making it easier to work with familiar names.
This enhancement allows users to choose between the technical ID’s as they’ve been used in the past or more intuitive, readable names when working with pricing inputs.
Generic Inquiries and Business Events for Data Sync
As part of the latest update, a standalone Customization Project, separate from the RPM Connector, has been created. This new project houses crucial Generic Inquiries (GIs) and Business Events. This project includes:
•13 Generic Inquiries: Used for the OData Service to list fields being synced.
•RPMSync_Currencies
•RPMSync_CustomerAttributeValues
•RPMSync_Customers
•RPMSync_GLAccounts
•RPMSync_ItemAttributes
•RPMSync_ItemAttributeValues
•RPMSync_ItemCube
•RPMSync_ItemCurrencies
•RPMSync_Items
•RPMSync_Locations
•RPMSync_PriceSchedules
•RPMSync_UofMs
•RPMSync_UofMSchedules
•1 Generic Inquiry: Provides a listing for viewing created Sync Queries and identifying any failed ones.
•RPM Sync Queue
•6 Generic Inquiries (prefaced with “DO NOT MODIFY”): These are linked to Business Events and are critical for automatic syncing from Acumatica.
•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Currency
•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Customers
•DO NOT MODIFY RPM GL
•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Item
•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Location
•DO NOT MODIFY RPM Price Schedule
•6 Business Events: Tied to the GIs mentioned above, ensuring seamless synchronization.
•1 Business Event for Sync Queue: Utilizes the RPM web service to create a sync queue in RPM whenever a record is added, triggering synchronization.
Important Note:
If you need to customize any of the default GIs, it is crucial to create a copy and modify that instead. Overwriting the default GIs could result in your changes being lost during future updates or publishing. Creating a copy ensures that your customizations remain intact and unaffected by subsequent system updates.
Item Cube GI/Sync Reader Update
The RPMSync_Item Cube Generic Inquiry (GI) and the ACU: Item Cube Sync Reader have been updated to include all cost fields. By incorporating these fields into the GI and Reader, we’ve made it easier to map the correct cost field for a customer within RPM. This enhancement reduces the need for customization, making the GI and Sync Reader more universal and adaptable.
These cost fields are now part of the Query, providing flexibility in mapping without appearing as individual columns to map in RPM . This streamlined approach allows for quicker updates to the mapping process, ensuring that you can easily select the appropriate cost field as needed.
RPM ACU – April 2024 New Features and Enhancements
The 2024 R3 update for RPM introduces a suite of powerful and exciting new features around the Data Sync functionality. Below is a quick overview of these latest enhancements:
Data Sync
The new Data Sync feature seamlessly integrates data from your ERP system into RPM, ensuring efficient and synchronized data transfer with minimal latency. Several new entities have been added under the ‘Tools’ section to facilitate this process. These include Sync Queues, Sync Maps, Sync Readers, Sync Writers, and System Jobs, all designed to work together to streamline your data synchronization needs.
RPM Settings
RPM Settings area has been updated to accurately reflect recent changes in the interface between RPM and Acumatica. These updates include the addition of new fields that enhance functionality, as well as the remove of fields that are no longer utilized. These adjustments ensure that the settings remain streamlined and effective for current operational needs.
Fields Added:
•Basis Date – Appointment
•Basis Date – Service Order
Fields Removed:
•Registration Key
•Webservice: Username
•Webservice: Password
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