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Yikes...
I have yet another
client wanting to expand the A/P Invoice # from 10 to 15 digits. He has his
reasons and is willing to invest, but wants to know what it would take. I told
him I thought a programmer would want to take a week just analyzing the problem
before giving a serious quote (client want's fixed bid). Has anybody had
experience doing this? I'm interested in hearing how it went, what you
encountered, etc. My client expressed his opinion that it seems like
it should be easy and shouldn't take long. I related the following and want to
know if I missed anything:
Table changes on any
table that could store the A/P invoice #. (dozens?)
Code changes to any
program that refers to the A/P invoice # in any fashion. (thousands of
lines?)
Screen layout
changes for panels that contain the A/P invoice #. (dozens)
Report layout
changes. (dozens)
Testing. (weeks and
weeks if you do it adequately)
Refitting each time
they want to apply a BMR. (?????)
I'm really
discouraging them from doing this, but they have many vendors--freight carriers
in particular--that use long invoice #'s. They don't like the solution of
putting in the last 9 digits followed by A, B, C,... for each duplicate, then
putting all 15 digits in the description field. Far be it from me to tell folks
how to spend their money, but my gut feel is the workaround is better. Any
thoughts?
Geo.
George Sagen, CPIM, CNE
PrimeSource Technologies,
Inc.
A Metamor Worldwide
Company
(801)360-6360
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