Re: BPCS Engineering follow-up

Al,

In a message dated 2/13/99 2:23:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, MacWheel99
writes:

> 1. Conceptual summary - what are features and options - what are they for?
>  2. What modules like BOM INV would we find involved with them?
>  3. Where do I look up BPCS documentation explaining how they work, how we 
> use

I've never used them myself with BPCS, but have used similar products on other
manufacturing packages and have been told that BPCS supports it.  I imagine
it's a "bolt on", because I tried to look into it and got nowhere with what we
have installed.  Conceptually, it's "I have product A which comes in three
finishes" -- at order entry time, you specify which finish to build product A
with.  Each finish has a different cost and possibly a different manufacturing
process.  If you assemble product A the same way for everyone except customer
X, you can pick the "customer X feature" when entering the order.  An option
is just like a feature, but is not necessarily required.  "I would like
product A with the optional CD player built in."

I don't know which modules are impacted, although I suspect that MRP, BOM,
ORD, PUR, and QMS are way up there.  If the documentation is not on the CD
delivered with BPCS, I'd suspect a call to your SSA representative would be in
order.

>  Thanks - I vaguely remember the subject from many years ago, in which I 
> concluded from a brief study that they were not relevant to our then 
> operations from the perspective of what was then available to us.
>  
>  You have my permission to launch this e-mail into BPCS_L, or forwarding 
> elsewhere, if you think someone else can do a better job of sharing pros & 
> cons of features & options with me.

I'll do it.  Like I said, I don't know any clients using this at this time...

Regards!

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

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." -- Billie Jean King
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