Re: Item Master "Ownership"

good question, no good answer!

these remarks apply to v6.04

we have just a couple of people that have access to the INV100 program and who 
can update data on it. the problem is that if you have access to that program 
you can update anything. we took the code fro INV100 and wrote our own "DISPLAY 
ONLY' version of it. we give the common users access to the display only 
version of the program.

a couple of other things that we do.
1. for MRP planning data we have given all of the buyers and planners access to 
MRP140 and have told them to maintain the planning data using MRP140. each 
evening we have a program that read the CIC records (maintained via MRP140) and 
transfer the current planning data from the CIC record to the Item master so 
that it is duplicated into the item master (IIM) record. thus people that look 
at INV100 data see the current planning data.
2. we tried the form to get all of the data needed to set up an item master but 
we found it to be slow and unreliable. so when we set up a new item master we 
enter as much information as engineering can give us. but we load a series of 
default values into the lead time, planner code, and a thing item class fields. 
(Either 999 or *) we then run a series of queries each night that select all 
item master records that have these default values and list them. these are 
distributed to various departments that are then responsible for getting their 
data loaded. for example, a part that has a planner code of * goes to 
production control and they have to load the proper planner code, lead time, 
order policy data, etc. they can do this via MRP140. once the data gets loaded 
it overrides the default data and the part stops appearing on the query. does 
this work? most of the time, but it is not fool proof

chick doe
barton instrument systems

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Good Day
Although we are on Release 4.05 CD, the question is a generic MRP II question:
Which department(s) has ownership over the Item Master File ?
With BPCS, many different departments have a vested interest in the accuracy
of
specific fields. How does YOUR organization handle who does the actual
Maintenance of the Item Master, Bills of Material, Routings, ......
We circulate a " Form " to various departments so that they manually write
down the values of "their" fields. Eventually, the form gets to the desk of
one person who actually keys the data into BPCS.
"Sometimes" this takes longer than we wish !!

Thanks,
Jim Barry
Belchertown Mass
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