Re: BPCS 6.02 Conversion

>  From:        JonathO@catalinaltg.com (Jonathan Oei)
>  Catalina Lighting
>  
>  We ended up not converting POs.  We had quite a struggle during our CRP
>  to match an entered PO to a converted PO.  We could even get them to
>  match in the HPH/HPO tables, but BPCS would choke on the converted
>  entry.

When we converted BPCS/36 to 405 CD, we closed out all the shop orders, for 
re-release after MRP after conversion.  The customer orders had fortunately 
been numbered with a facility specific prefix, but we had problems with the 
PO order numbering scheme & MIS & PUR folks never saw eye to eye on how best 
to consolidate facilities so the POs had to be rekeyed.  Some were 
automatically converted in early days, using an MIS renumbering scheme & 
there was no problems in the conference room testing, only in user 
dissatisfaction with the scheme.

> The biggest headache
>  seems to be the lack of documentation about what values need to be in
>  what fields and in consistancy across the BPCS database.
>  (i.e.  sometimes the busy flag is called 'busy', other times it is 'inuse')

Yes !!!!!  We might discuss which of the BPCS Documentation tools are 
essential for solving this topic.  We timed our conversion for after 
end-of-month fiscal processing, with no unfinished batches.
  
> (Historic data is needed for research and for MRP)

We decided to have our history files restart from scratch, giving folks an 
access path to revisit the historical environment, which periodically gets an 
end-of-month to weed down the oldest history, then it will go away a month or 
so before Y2K.  The only department that has communicated that this is a big 
nuisance is customer service.  Shipping history is formatted totally 
differently on the two versions, so combining pictures is complicated & time 
consuming.

How do you use historical data in MRP?  We run MRP full regen every night, 
net change mid day, do not have a full time planner.  

Al

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