QCS offers two different types of Awards programs - Point Banking and Service Awards.  For more information on the difference between these two types of Award programs go to Awards - Point Banking and Service Awards.

The awards program is an additional module which allows a company to track awards levels, responders, and non-responders.  It is a custom module to our software which usually requires additional custom coding to tailor it to our customer's needs.  It is often used to track what awards levels your client's employees will be at. 

Some of the key points of this system are:

1.  Employee lists may be imported directly from a disk that your client gives to you.

2.  Employee's are associated with their Supervisor, or Coordinator.

3.  Programs are designated as Award Programs in Program Maintenance.  Up to 15 Award Levels may be specified here, as well. 

4.  In Order Entry, a box pops up by Line Item, allowing you to enter in a list of Employees who will receive this Award Item.  Each Employee may have a separate Shipping Address, and WIP Status code.

5.  Reporting is available for Eligibility, Non-Responders, Responders, and Program Mgmt. Analysis.

The first step in setting up an Awards program is to set the flag to indicate that this is an Awards program in Inventory & Sales Program Setup on IFM #1.  This is set on line 8 where you must put an "A" to indicate that it is an Awards program. 

Employees are set up as CONTACTS in Customer File Maintenance under P for Contacts.  We will probably need to get in touch with the MIS Dept. of your end-user so that we can put together an Import program to create and maintain this employee list, unless you want to do this by hand.  We can import your end-user's employee list periodically, and update your records automatically.  Of course, we need certain pertinent data about each employee, such as Date of Hire.  Safety programs, or other special purpose programs may use other criteria, such as date of last departmental accident, etc.  The User 4 field (line 9) is used to track point totals and the date 3 field (line 12) is used to track date of hire or last incident date for safety or seniority programs. 

In order entry, you can indicate which employee is to receive an award on a line-item by line-item basis which pops up automatically when it detects that the program is set up as an awards program. 

It has four basic reports which are generated from DPU705: 

1.  Eligibility Report - sorted by Award Level, this shows which employees are currently eligible for which awards.

2.  Responder's Report - sorted by Award Level, shows which employees have responded, and have received an award. 

3.  Non-Responders's Report - sorted by Award Level, shows which employees are eligible for an award but haven't responded and received one.

4.  Mgmt. Analysis Summary - sorted by Program & Item, shows how many of each item have been consumed within a time-fame and what percentage of total items awarded that it accounts for.