RE: MRP runs

Rick:

Almost all our customers have reverted to weekly mrp runs and use our RPM
tool multiple times per day to support their need for net change
visibility.  The runs average 10 - 15 minutes and don't impact other
processing.  Our software is a "bolt-on" to BPCS and requires no conversion
or training.

You can find more information at www.systemspluscorp.com or wait for the
May issue of the APICS magazine.  A discussion of generic RPM is the cover
article for that issue.

Roy Luce

Main:   847-540-9635
Cell:   847-910-0884
Fax:    208-330-9032
Email:  lwl@ix.netcom.com


-----Original Message-----
From:   RickCarter@holley.com [SMTP:RickCarter@holley.com]
Sent:   Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:27 AM
To:     bpcs-l@midrange.com
Subject:        MRP runs

BPCS v6.1.01 Mixmode AS400

We run MRP600 for (4) different facilities each night.  These runs are very
long and starting to impact other nightly processing.  SSA indicated we
needed to run these independant of each other.  We executed DBMON on this
job and the QQEPT field indicated that there may be a need for some
logicals to be built on CIC, KFP, KMR.   The counters here were between 1
and 208 on these files.  The advised index to build field was either 'N' or
'-' thus no indication of what logicals may be needed to improve this job.

Does anyone know of any performance enhancers for these MRP runs.




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