Al,
Regardless of your BPCS/LX release, unless you manually add the standard and
frozen costs for the purchased items by facility, there is not any automatic
vehicle that will add the records to the CMF file automatically.
All costs must be established within the system from the lowest level
(usually purchased parts), and then the BOM and routings for the assembly
item up to the finished goods.
Then execute a cost roll-up so that the end items cost can be established in
the CMF file.
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mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+dsweeney=phoenixbcinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Al Mac
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:48 AM
To: BPCS ERP Discussion List
Subject: [BPCS-L] Null Costs
Sometimes when researching one problem, I stumble over others & could use
some guidance where to look.
What would cause new items that do have ECL customer orders to not have any
entry in CMF cost master? I have been looking for miscoding in INV100 or
MRP140. I have a suspicion that we might have some people setting up new
items where in their training, some key field value got dropped, and I'm
not seeing it.
Some of these items are type-7 raw materials, that have recently been added
to our system, at child bottom of some newly engineered parts we need to
make. The problem is that buying parts before they got populated with
standard cost, understates inventory value in General Ledger, then when the
vendor payable invoice arrives, we have more accounting chaos. I can
understand items setup in BPCS in which no one has yet populated the
standard cost from zero to whatever, but what might we be doing wrong that
items get active in BPCS with requirements, inventory, but there is
absolutely no record in CMF master cost for that item facility combination?
These null cost items are also type-1 master scheduled but no BOM or
routings, such as samples that are made outside of BPCS but use ORD to ship
bill customer, then if & when customer approves our pricing & samples (in
competition with other vendors) we setup the BOM & Routings. The problem
is that some reports that show what we shipped, cost of those parts,
written in query/400 which matches records across several files. No record
in one of the files, no detail on the report.
We are 405CD by facility.
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Al Mac
BPCS/400 Computer Data Janitor
midrange.com
