Dell needs to put some serious effort into revamping the reporting features in the My Premier site. I like being able to quickly find what I’ve bought from a vendor for any time period and see the columns of information that would be important when doing this such as:
Order Date
Order Number
Manufacturer Part #
Dell Part #
Description
Price
Qty
Invoice Number
I don’t have an internal inventory/purchasing system just yet so when I need something I need to be able to tell you what I need by part number. The only way is to lookup the part number on your site from my purchasing history, which is nearly impossible to do.
The closest report to what I need is a Product Summary. The Report Type, Order Invoiced Status and Order Date Range are the required fields I have to select in order to get a report. Yet, even if I select ‘Year to Date’, it doesn’t honor that and doesn’t give me a report. It only honors the date range I type in.
Once I get some output, it’s grouped by Notebooks, Non_Tied Peripherals and Desktops. If I click on Non_Tied Peripherals I get a list of the products bought in the time frame I entered. However the only columns visible are Description, Qty, Average price and Total Price. I don’t see a way to easily view the details like Order date, part number, etc. The only other way to do it is to run an Order Summary report and drill down into each order to view the details of the order. It’s maddening!!