Re: BPCS 6.02... -Reply

Paul,

In a message dated 98-01-27 19:02:10 EST, you write:

> John, we are currently prototyping 6.0.2 Mixed Mode.  We went to C/S
>  first but realized it wasn't ready.  Under M/M is shows stability and
pretty
>  good performance.  What we have found mostly is in the Order
>  management piece.  We have a unique blend of Promotions & Deals
>  which means we need to have a hard look at what we need to do the
>  COM piece.  I'm very interested in talking to you about the 6.04 release. 
>  We are giving consideration to going specifically for the Green Screen
>  order entry side.  can you call me or E-mail so we can have an Off-line
>  conversation about these issues.

If you're seeing "pretty good performance", you must have a "pretty small"
database for V6.  We have over 250,000 BOM records, and BOM300 takes over two
minutes to bring up even a single-level inquiry.  SFC600 takes 4 minutes to
bring up the _First_ screen for labor (labour for those of the UK persuasion)
tickets.  We've received two "performance" BMRS but, guess what?  The majority
of the performance enhancements were for SSA's two UNIX accounts and had, to
quote SSA's code, "no effect plus or minus on the AS/400".  Note that this
performance is on our development 320, with four processors and practically
nobody using it -- hate to see what the 530 with 200 users will do...

The ($38B annual sales) client of which I speak had a "stated direction" of
installing BPCS at all of its plants.  After seeing V6, two plants have
already gone with HFA (Freeman and Associates).  Two are using BPCS and two
more are "in the works", but these plants originally evaluated 5.1.01.  The V6
MM system _is_ stable, but it's slower than Christmas and the conversion
programs don't even work properly against BPCS files...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary." -- Vidal
Sassoon
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