Re: FORECASTING

We are currently on BPCS 6.0.02 MM.

We have been using BPCS's forecasting module which does work. Our
manufacturing, Sales & Marketing want the functionality of "what if". The
sales reps want the ability to inform the forecast analyst of changes in
the market; changes in future demand. The Sales reps want a drill down PC
based solution, and want the software to be somewhat easy to use.

We have decided on Demand Solutions Forecast Management.

We are going live on February 1, it is a server based windows application.
The software needs a powerful server.

I will let you know how thing are going. We are currently running our
pilot. Next week we will be teaching our sales reps how to use the
software.

So far things are going well.

We have automated the download and the upload to and from BPCS.

We are forecasting using orders ECL, We are pulling our sales information
from SIL, Uploading the forecast back to BPCS directly into KMR, bypassing
BPCS's forcasting module.

Sincerely,

Chris Ertz
Software Development Manager
American Metal Products





"Ben Colletti" <bcollett@tokheim.com> on 01/18/2000 01:11:22 PM

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Subject:  FORECASTING

We are looking for a PC Forecast package that will interface easily with
BPCS.
We are ver. 6.1 full client/server on an AS400.  Our product is assemble to
customer order and has many options per end item.  We have established
modular
bills of material at the final assembly level so we can quickly configure
our
end items.  We do establish a new end item number for each unique
combination.
Does anyone have a suggestions?
Thanks,
Ben Colletti
Materials Mgr.
Gasboy International Inc.
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