Re: Incomplete JIT backflushes

Make sure changes weren't made to the BOM while there
were active shop orders for that item.

If components were deleted from the BOM of a product,
the FMA records for active shop orders for that
product will be messed up.

BPCS does give a message if you make a change to the
Routing of a product while there are active shop
orders. It does not, however, give a message when you
change the BOM of a product for which there are active
shop orders.

The way to deal with this is instead of "deleting"
items from the BOM, "discontinue" them as of today's
date.  In that way the Seq # in the MDM and in the FMA
files for existing shop orders stay in sinc and there
is no problem.

Regards,

Ruben.
--- "Bielskus, Mindaugas" <Mindaugas@oneac.com> wrote:
> To all,
>
> I have a situation here that occurs sporadically.
> Items are submitted to be
> backflushed and only part of the BOM is backflushed.
>  Most of the time,
> there are no problems in backflushing these same
> items.  The JIT process is
> used to do the backflush.  The shop order is
> created, the time ticket
> entered and finally the item submitted for posting.
>
> To try to understand when and why this is happening,
> I have added a short
> program that checks whether for each FMA record
> there is a VLA record.  The
> results are stored in an exception file.
>
> The BPCS version number is 2.7, the operating system
> 3.2.  The client
> modifications to the backflush process that were
> done pertain to the
> assignment of the workstation ID.  In all programs
> called by the
> backflush/posting process, the last part of the WSID
> is used instead of the
> first.  This modification cut-down the frequency of
> errors.
>
> Some of the users use Client Access. We tried to
> assign a workstation name,
> but that name is disregarded on V3.2 of CA.
>
> Another modification that was done to the entire
> BPCS system was the Y2K
> correction.  That was done probably 3 years ago.
> Other than that, the rest
> of the code is as SSA delivered it.
>
> I wonder if in subsequent releases of BPCS, there
> were any fixes to
> backflushing.  Any ideas on how to deal with this
> problem, if not directly,
> then indirectly ?
>
> Mindaugas Bielskus
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