RE: Running out of Buyer Codes

        Hello Andrew,

        Sorry I don't have a better solution, but another band-aid approach
would be to alter the dds (screen specs in sda) and allow lowercase.  This
would at least double the alphabet and give you a little breathing space.

        Rick
> ----------
> From:
> andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com[SMTP:andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com]
> Reply To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Thursday, April 22, 1999 2:27 AM
> To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Running out of Buyer Codes
> 
> 
> Has anybody else run out of buyer codes?
> 
> We are using BPCS v6.0.02 and will soon have more than 36 buyers. As the
> buyer code field is 1 character we have exhausted all letters and
> numbers and the only solution we can see is to start assigning '$', '@'
> etc. as buyer codes (which will not go down too well with the buyers
> themselves and could be mis-interpreted on the reports and documentation
> we produce).
> 
> We have sized a modification to allow 2 character buyer codes but the
> cost of doing this is prohibitive. Our buyers are aligned by both
> commodity and vendor and there do not appear to be any rules stating
> which buyer buys from which vendors for which commodities.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew.
> ---------------------------------------
> Andrew Murphy
> XYRATEX
> Havant, UK
> www.xyratex.com
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> 
> +---
> | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List!
> | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com.
> | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com.
> | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
> | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com
> +---
> 
+---
| This is the BPCS Users Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com
+---