End of Month
The End of Month routine is a very important program that the System Administrator should run on the last day of the month after the End of Day routine is run. There are a number of reports available in this routine, none of which are an absolute requirement for the operation of the system but are very useful to the food service office management. As you go through this lesson you will be able to determine which reports that will be important to your particular operation.
The most important action you should take and that is essential to the operation of the POS system is the first option which
is to create summary files new month. If you forget or do not do this step then reports for the new month will not contain data for the new month and zeros will appear. You ma do this step after the end of the month and data will appear but it is best to do this step as prescribed.
It is also important to note that step 03 is on the menu but is currently scheduled as a job that runs automatically at night on
the last day of the month. Only do this step when you sure that it has not been run before. This may occur is the power was out on the last day of the month which would be a rare occurrence.
The most important action you should take and that is essential to the operation of the POS system is the first option which
is to create summary files new month. If you forget or do not do this step then reports for the new month will not contain data for the new month and zeros will appear. You ma do this step after the end of the month and data will appear but it is best to do this step as prescribed.
It is also important to note that step 03 is on the menu but is currently scheduled as a job that runs automatically at night on
the last day of the month. Only do this step when you sure that it has not been run before. This may occur is the power was out on the last day of the month which would be a rare occurrence.