Re: Duplicated costs

From Al Macintyre to Jesus Maynez & other folks interested in increasing an 
understanding of this subject

There was another BPCS_L thread on this a few days ago & variations come up 
periodically.

You need to make absolutely sure that you do not have several people running 
copies of CST600 at the same time & probably also CST500 which is called by 
CST600.  Check your security for all the people who are authorized to do this 
task, and see that they understand that only one copy of this job should be 
in the works at a time & that it be allowed to get to a conclusion before 
another copy is launched.  You may need to adjust your security so as to 
reduce the number of people who are authorized to run this job, to exclude 
those who "don't get it."

Some companies have people who try to do rollups of individual items that 
they just changed the routings on, who are ignorant of the fact that the BOM 
of those items might be shared with other items that co-workers are doing the 
same thing on.  It would be simpler if there was one person designated as the 
one who runs the cost roll-ups, then have other people message that person 
... we need a cost roll-up soon because of item # whatever.

One solution offered was to create a jobq just for cost roll-ups & modify the 
interactive CL to force it to always go there irrespective of user wish to 
run on-line or on some other jobq ...  that way you force single threading of 
execution.

Something else you might like to check out is the correlation between CIC & 
CMF ... I have a query that identifies parts that have data in one but not 
the other, and another query that identifies what items have different costs 
in different files, because a lot of my users have been asking how come the 
cost in INV300 does not always agree with the cost in CST300, and I 
determined that usually the cost is identical & wanted to see which items had 
the discrepancies.

CST600 is part of our nighly routines but we cannot leave the AS/400 running 
unattended with assurance that all will be well the next morning, because 
CST600 is one of those jobs that blows up the spool file with a ridiculously 
large report.  We determined that the problem is that CST600, and also CST900 
for that matter, is treating the additional description lines of routines as 
if they were type 1 real routings.

We use the type-3 text lines to communicate detailed production steps for our 
operations to the production floor & QC & easy viewing via SFC300.  I 
reported to help line that I thought this was a bug, that both CST600 & 
CST900 should be using the FRT logical that excludes type-3 text lines, since 
they are not relevant to the functions of either of these programs.  Help 
Line disagreed.  SSA believes that other customers need this data in these 
reports & that to exclude them would break BPCS for other customers.  Well, 
in my mountain of to do some time, we intend to fix the bug as a 
modification, because we have a ratio of approx 20 type-3 text lines for 
every 1 type-1 line & I figure the whole thing will run 10 times faster 
without them & right now we do not run CST900 as regularly as we should due 
to the many hours that it takes grinding through all those type-3 lines.

I am also tempted to change the defaults on the CST600 prompt screen since 
cost type 2 standard is the only one we ever roll-up & I fear that some day 
someone is going to launch this using the defaults without changing the 
screen.

>  From:    bpcsmaynez@yahoo.com (Jesus Maynez)
>  
>  Checking costs were equal in two facilities, I
>  discovered that my CMF file has duplicated costs. I
>  mean there is more than one record for the combination
>  CFPROD, CFFAC, CFCSET, CFCBKT. This was reason why I
>  had diferent costs between two facilities after doing
>  a Cost Inter-Facility transfer. I deleted those
>  records but I am getting more. I suspect the CST600 is
>  the program that is making these duplicated. Has
>  anyone has seen this problem? Any ideas how to solve
>  it?
>  
>  Best Regards,
>  Jesus Maynez

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