RE: BPCS Documentation

I agree that a single "Monster ERD" is impractical. It should be divided
into partitions that flow along the lines of the BPCS workflow such as
Inbound Supply Chain, Outbound Supply Chain, MFG Planning, MFG Execution,
and CEA. It would be easier to print, read, manage, and understand.

George Sagen
Sr. BPCS Consultant
gsagen@primesourcetech.com <mailto:gsagen@primesourcetech.com>
PrimeSource Technologies
7373 East Doubletree Ranch Road
Suite 150
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
(801)360-6360 Direct & VM
 


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|From: uucp@Uucp1.mcs.net [mailto:uucp@Uucp1.mcs.net]On Behalf Of
|DAsmussen@aol.com
|Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 10:56 PM
|To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
|Subject: Re: BPCS Documentation
|
|
|Al,
|
|In a message dated 4/7/99 3:40:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
|MacWheel99@aol.com writes:
|
|> We need to review intellectual property issues related to documentation
|tools
|>  provided to BPCS customers by consultants, presumably built
|into the price
|>  for their services, and what contractual obligations are imposed on
|customers
|>  not to share with other BPCS customers.  As BPCS versions march
|forwards,
|>  there is a need for these tools to also get updated, and their
|availability
|>  to not be kept so secret.
|
|IMO, customers can do whatever they want with this data.  What the
|employees
|of those customers do might be a different matter.  Personally, I'd be a
|little skeptical of a "comprehensive" ERD from _ANYONE_.  My last primary
|client, with an inhumanly overqualified staff BTW, got just over halfway
|through a comprehensive BPCS ERD and gave up because it was becoming
|illegible on their "E" size plotter...
|
|JMHO,
|
|Dean Asmussen
|Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
|Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
|E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
|
|"The greatest joy in life is doing what others say you cannot do."
|-- Walter
|Bagehot
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