The federal government established the Javits-Wagner-O'Day program (JWOD) to create opportunities for people who are blind or who have other disabilities. As part of this program, government agencies are required to purchase selected products and services from nonprofit organizations such as the National Industries for the Blind (NIB) employing such individuals.
If you have government customers that are required to purchase NIB equivalent products, you can use the JWOD/NIB features in Vision that enable you to offer NIB products to government customers during order entry on the Customer Service tab. This NIB equivalent substitution takes precedence over any standard substitution set up for the customer or ship to location.
Note: Before you use the JWOD/NIB features, please contact The Systems House so that this feature can be activated for you.
The Main screen on the Product Management tab is where you can specify the NIB product number for a product on the Main screen of the Product Management tab.
In addition, you can run the NIB Product Reference Update for JWOD in Vision Back Office to load a list of product numbers and their NIB equivalent product numbers from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
NIB equivalents are set up and maintained at the global product level, not at the warehouse product level. If you add or remove a NIB equivalent product number for a product at the global product level, the system automatically pushes the changes to all of the product's warehouse product records. Note that it is not possible to change the NIB equivalent product at the warehouse product level.
Select the global product on the Product Lookup screen of the Product Management tab if you have not already done so. (For instructions on how to do this, refer to Select a product.)
On the Product Management tab, click the Main button. The Main screen appears.
In the NIB Equivalent Product field, type the product number of the product that should be offered as a NIB substitution during order entry on the Customer Service tab.
Click the Accept button to save your changes.