On an application like this, I think that once you can explicitly 100% define
what you want to to, you are 90% done. So here's working on the 90%.

Can you tell us what the mission of this DB is? You said that you want to
"track". Literally that's just writing down things like on a Word document or
clay tablet. Being a DB, it's also implicit that you'd like to prepare
summaries, reports etc. Are there any other specific missions? You also
briefly noted tracking the inventory levels at all of the dealers. If so,
that's a biggee....it's creating and implementing inventory tracking systems
for all of these chemicals at companies (dealers) Amongst other things,
that would include entering every inventory-affecting transaction that
occurse at each of those dealers. Is that what you want to do?



"A.Finnegan" wrote:

I am attempting to create a database that will mainly handle transfers of
materials between dealers. This is an aerial application business, so
dealers bring us chemicals that we apply on crops. Dealers are responsible
for providing us with the correct amount of chemicals for the fields they
need sprayed. We can't always use their specific chemical. All of our 15 or
so dealers bring the same chemicals, so we often use one dealer's chemical on
another's field. I need to keep track of this debit/credit system, so I
always know who owes who what. I am having trouble implementing this idea
into Access so any transaction or transfer will deduct and add the chemical
to the dealers involved in the transfer.
Basically like this:
Dealer A transfers 40 gallons of chemical Z to Dealer B. Both Dealers had
60 gallons of chemical Z sprayed for the day.
At the beginning of the day Dealer A had 120 gallons, Dealer B had 50.
So, after all is said and done, Dealer A should have 20 gallons, Dealer B
should have 30.
I need a way to keep track of the transfer and the amount sprayed for each
day.
Any thoughts and suggestions would be much appreciated.