FW: Loading Mfg Orders

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From: MacWheel99@aol.com [mailto:MacWheel99@aol.com] 
>  
>  A question to the group:
>  
>  Does anyone have any suggestions on converting existing M.O.'s from another
>  system into MAPICS?  The customer I am converting has over 1200 open MO's
>  that need to be moved into MAPICS as part of the conversion process to XA 
5.
>  
>  Eric

If the old ERP is one of the standard sets there may be conversion software 
out there ... never as up-to-date as the ERP itself ... I know when we 
converted to BPCS from MAPICS there was conversion software available ... not 
good stuff, but better than nothing.

I do not believe that converting work-in-process is a healthy approach ... 
move your inventory & master files & regenerate MRP & get new orders because 
the structure of the orders will probably be quite different ... of course 
your volume might be different ... we create & purge thousands of 
manufacturing orders every week.

The only orders we convert are customer orders because all other kinds are 
driven off those requirements & even they needed some tinkering due to 
structural differences ... but most of our tinkering was due to the handling 
of multiple facilities multiple warehouses etc.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
When in doubt, read the manual, assuming you can find the right one.
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