RE: NOT Whole Numbers of BPCS Inventory

Al,

We are on 6.0.04 MM on AS/400.  Is there a field on the Item master in 4.05 
CD called discrete item flag?  If so, it may do the trick.  You could also 
try setting the order policy code to one of the "lot size" ones and set the 
lot size/incremental lot size to 1.  Not sure of your version but it's 
worth a shot.

Dwight

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From:   MacWheel99@aol.com [SMTP:MacWheel99@aol.com]
Sent:   Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:42 PM
To:     BPCS Users Mailing List
Cc:     Dave Waller; Jerry Cooper
Subject:        NOT Whole Numbers of BPCS Inventory

We have had an intermittent problem with materials that should always have
whole numbers quantities, that people tend to discover by accident, when we 
really need the item, but due to errors of various kinds, our inventory 
went
incorrect & we did not know it, and we would like to find & fix this sort 
of
thing before it gets us in trouble.  I just created a report which 
calculated
the on-hand for items whose Unit of Measure is EA ("each" should be
individual units), moved the decimal portion to a field 3.3 decimal only,
then print only if that field is not zero & my report found 35 items, which 
we are working on auditing & fixing.  This is our latest in a series of
reports that in aggregate can analyse every field in every file & tell us
various things wrong that need to be fixed, but in an ideal world we should 
have systems in place so that we would not have the errors in the first 
place.

The older version of BPCS/36 had a deal where at some level like item class 
we could say that a category of items needed to figure their on-hand to 5
decimal places, or be in whole numbers, or some such rule.  Is there such a 
reality for BPCS 405 that perhaps we have overlooked?  If we were using 
such
a business rule, then it ought to prevent BOM & routings creations that
result in the kind of error found to have contributed to the first item we
checked out ... we have labor transactions through JIT that are consuming
fractions of items that should come in whole numbers.

Al Macintyre
BPCS 405 CD on AS/436 V4R3
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