Re: Customer Allocations - Incorrect Display????

Dick Hi!

I don't think the display is incorrect.

Until the order is shipped, the order is still open and that is why it shows
in INV300-03 (Material Status Inquiry - Orders). However, according to BPCS
logic (which I don't totally agree with, but it has been design that way),
once the order is Pick Confirmed, the inventory is relieved, therefore
canceling the allocations (the items are not promised anymore because they
are not in the inventory anymore).

The point of argument should be if it is correct to relieve inventory after
pick confirm or should it be relieved only after ship confirm (and/or
billing). It is my humble opinion that it should not be relieved after pick
confirm and incidentally you are not alone having problems with this
approach, many clients of mine have the same problem and we have had to find
a work around to solve it.

But if the inventory IS relieved at pick confirm the allocations should
really be cancelled, otherwise you would have duplications.

I hope I don't sound too ambiguous, so to summarize, I think it is wrong to
relieve inventory at pick confirm, but if the design does that, yes it
should cancel the allocations at that time. And that is what INV300 is
showing you.

Regards,

Ruben Mirensky

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----- Original Message -----
From: Bailey, Dick <Dick_Bailey@MCFA.COM>
To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 8:01 AM
Subject: Customer Allocations - Incorrect Display????


>
> Does anyone know why the Customer Allocation total showing on INV300
> screens and recorded in field WCUSA in the CIC file EXCLUDES the quantity
picked
> (LQPCK) in ECL?
>
> The detail shown on INV300-03 (Material Status Inquiry - Orders) DOES
> show these orders as open.  One sample I'm looking at shows open orders
totaling
> 32 when the Customer Allocation total is 24. Two of the orders, for a
total of
> 8,  are picked.  There are no manufacturing allocations.
>
> Is this a bug?  Is there some logical reason why picked quantities are
> not shown in the Customer Allocation total?  It is messing up our planning
> system.
>
> We are in BPCS 6.1. Thanks.
>
> Dick bailey
> MCFA
>
>
>
>
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