RE: cst900

When CST900 is run it updates the CMF, IIM and CIC files with the actual
costs (based on last cost, weighted average or JIT weighted average) and
produces 2 reports firstly CST270 Shop Order Cost Variance and WIP Report
(CST270) for all shop orders and secondly a list SFC900 of all shop orders
that have been physically deleted.  You need to determine how your
organisation is calculating and reporting manufacturing variances, finance
may need CST900 to be run at month end and manually post these variances
based on CST270 report (although this report is an ugly one and difficult to
work with if you have many shop orders and/or large boms/routes - you
probably will find that finance get some "friendlier reports" to base
variances on that may not be dependant on CST900!).  CST900 can be run as
part of the period close or it can be performed as often as necessary to
clear closed shop orders from your files and to keep your actual cost
buckets current.           

Hope this helps
Rgds
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Chick Doe [mailto:Cdoe@barton-instruments.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 8:19 PM
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject: cst900


how often and when do organizations fun cst900? we are on bpcs ver6.04.

we typically run cst900 at month-end and it takes several hours. as i
understand this process it performs two functions:

!. updates actual cost records based upon the actuals posted in closed work
orders.
2. purges those closed work orders

i do not believe that there is anything that happens as a result of running
this that needs to be tied to a financial month-end. could we run this as
often as weekly? would there be any advantage or disadvantage?

chick doe
barton instrument systems  

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