Re: INV300 - Soft Allocations

Well we had a bunch of negative allocations today so I did the whole reorg
set on all but customer allocations which were Ok.

SYS900C cleanup shop allocation files
INV971C recalculate on order allocations so files in sync with each other
again
INV972C reset IIM IWI ILN to agree with ILI

Had I had a problem with customer allocations, then before these 3 guys I
would have run ORD990C

I knew I did not because we have a bunch of queries to list potential bad
stuff like
deleted order lines (ECH ECL out of sync)
customer orders with missing price
unposted labor tickets
negative costs
actual cost bigger than price
negative MRP etc.
most nites we have none of the above, but if I did not check this stuff
regularly then we could go a while & no one notice

Once a week I do a "full reorg" which has SFC990C at the beginning, then
finish up with ACR970C ACR972C MRP990C & once a month or so I run BOM900C

I also ran SYS120C tonite because we had a lot of deleted records eating disk
space, and because Wed nite is CST900C nite & SYS120C makes that run so much
faster.

We have this stuff copied to a user menu so it is in the right sequence of
the steps, but you should go to SYS/23 F1 to review the functions of these
actions.

One of your problems was customer allocations & also you had some shipping at
a pick step ... we sometimes have weird stuff happen if someone in middle of
shipping steps is on a PC that does down ... they are sometimes so rattled
that they do not volunteer that this happened.  I figured out where BPCS
stores the data that is used by SYS993 reset & wrote a little program to dump
all those data areas & have an RPG cycle control break when the flags change
within a category ... this helps me see when some user had a problem whose
resolution never went to a proper conclusion such that we have a potential
time bomb sitting on this work station waiting for the next persion to run
that application.

I hope my ramblings trigger a memory of something you could check to resolve
your mystery.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
BPCS 405 CD Manager / Programmer @ Global Wire Technologies Incorporated
http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com = new name same quality wire
engineering company: fax # 812-424-6838