Re: RF for Warehouse/Shop Floor

Roger,

In a message dated 12/22/98 7:31:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Roger.Wolf@garmin.com writes:

> We are looking into getting Radio Frequency for the Warehouse/Shop Floor.
>  
>  We have BPCS 405 CD - AS/400 based - Green screen.
>  
>  Is there any packages that can be recommended?
>  
>  Applications - Order picking - Shop floor - Inventory control.
>  
>  The displays to emulate a 5250 device and have bar-code scanning
>  capabilities.

I don't know about packages, but at release 5.x and lower my clients have
always written custom RF programs utilizing CIM600.  The problem with writing
an RF package for market is that the viewable screen size varies per device.
Screen size variance is the same reason that you rarely find hand-held devices
that will talk to a given package.

CIM600 is a bit of a kludge itself as, despite SSA's earlier advertisements,
it doesn't _always_ work the same as INV500 (especially if you use container
control).  CIM600 is available, but not supported, on the V6 releases of BPCS
-- SMG's would be preferred for V6, but they aren't (weren't?) available for
mixed mode installations.  If you go the CIM600 route, the most effective
application of it I've seen is to reduce NIN and NGT population to one member
for errors.  In the latter instance, CIM600 was modified (under a different
name) to be a TSR program on the AS/400 that read data queue's populated by
the RF screen programs and sent transactions in error to an "ERROR" member
which could be accessed, corrected, and re-processed with the standard CIMPath
programs.

HTH,

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

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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