After a vehicle has been entered into the CARS+ inventory, the vehicle stock number cannot be edited using the Vehicle Inventory Control screen. This is because changing the inventory number affects historical references to the vehicle which reside in other files.

It may be simply that the wrong unit number was entered and needs to be corrected.

Alternatively, some licensees are assigned a range of vehicle numbers and, therefore, must recycle the numbers after a period of time. If you want to keep the old vehicle history records on the system, you can do the following:

Instead of selling and purging the old inventory record, change the unit’s number using this program.

For example, assume unit # 12345 was sold 2 years ago and now that number needs to be used for a new vehicle. Rather than purging the old record, change unit # 12345 to A12345. The system will then have no record of unit # 12345 and it can be used to in-fleet the new vehicle. If the number needs to be recycled a second time, use B12345.

The Change Vehicle Number program does the following:

1. Allows the user to replace an existing vehicle number with a new number.
2. Automatically updates several files with the new number:

Vehicle Inventory file
Rental Agreement file
Vehicle History file
Non- Rev Movement file
Damage file
Notes file
Physical Inventory file
Reservation file
Vehicle Sales file
Quote file
as well as several auxiliary files

Be forewarned, however, that changing a vehicle number will likely require a significant amount of processing time due to the fact that all of the files listed above need to be updated with the change.

To access the Change Vehicle Number program, type CHGVEH (RET) at any "OPTION:" field or the appropriate line number on the Fleet Menu. The screen will then display:

OPTION: CHANGE VEHICLE NUMBER 1 Current Vehicle Number 2 New Vehicle Number 3 Update Custs# N 1DO CHNG 2 3ERASE 4 5BACKUP 6 7HELP 8

Enter data as follows:

1. CURRENT VEHICLE NUMBER	Enter the current vehicle number of the unit whose number you wish to change. This field does not require entry of a vehicle check digit. If there is only one vehicle on file with the unit number entered, all pertinent data relating to that vehicle will be loaded. If more than one vehicle is on file with the unit number (multiple owners), the Vehicle File Search program will automatically be called and all vehicles with a matching unit number will be displayed for selection. EXAMPLE: Type 12345 (RET)
2. NEW VEHICLE NUMBER	Enter the new vehicle number. EXAMPLE: Type A12345 (RET)
3. UPDATE CUSTS#	This field applies to European chauffeur logic where drivers can use their own vehicles which are entered in their customer record. All other users should accept the default of "N" in this field. EXAMPLE: Press (RET)

PRESS "F1" AT "OPTION:" TO BEGIN PROCESSING.