Re: How is ISSCO populated in MOMAST? -- MAPICS-L

Hi Jeff Snyder, Joan McCready and Ann Neal:

Thank you all for your postings on this matter.

I obtained some information from the lady in our finance dept. who handles these matters along with a telephone call to Mapics Support (Greg Lamb).

Where's what I found out:

When we do special MOs of this nature (in-house manufacturing of molds), we set up an Operation Number in the Routing to capture Material costs (similar to the way Outside Processing charges are captured).

When non-inventory materials and supplies are purchased for these MOs, they are charged to a special G/L Inventory WIP Asset account in their Accounts Payable processings. This is the reason why no BOM is needed on these MOs....mainly because non-inventory materials are used to produce this product.

The lady in finance reviews the Accounts Payable batches looking for charges to this G/L account and when she finds them, she enters these charges to the MO by using Shop Activity Update in PC&C.

These charges are made against the Routing Operation for these Materials and the result is that the ISSCO field is updated for these purchases.

Once the Periods are closed, there is no place in Mapics that retains theses transactions. Mapics Support told me that in Mapics XA, Release 4.0 and on, that a new History DB file was created to capture these transactions the same way that IMHIST captures Inventory Transactions.

I hope that this information was helpful to you. It certainly was a learning experience for me and it helped me in my quest to learn more about our Mapics.

Regards,
Al Gershen
ECS Composites
Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
aldg3@xxxxxxxxxxx


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:19:36 -0400
 "Jeff Snyder" <jeffreygsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

AL

those are the only '2' ways in 'vanilla' mapics that ISSCO gets populated. Call the HOTLINE.

   good luck
   jeff

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:05:29 -0500
 "McCready, Joan" <Joan.McCready@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK - let's see if I can be a leeetle bit more helpful, Al.

You say there is no BOM, but what are you making the mold from? (Sand? Plastic? Latinum?) Does this material not have a cost? Do you not want to relieve this material inventory, even though this "end" item will be consumed on a "real" MO and not shipped to a customer?

Having said that, if there is no BOM, and no IMHIST records, and no outside operations, I'd look at the MO item's Item Master records to see if there is a cost "lurking" there that is somehow getting charged to the MO. On the other hand, unless you've added some PTF recently, if this is the one and only MO this has happened to, gremlins might be the best (and only) answer.

-- Joan

Joan McCready, IS Manager phone: 636-479-4499 MetalTek International fax: 636-479-3399 The Carondelet Division www.metaltekint.com 8600 Commercial Blvd Pevely, MO 63070


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:51:38 -0500
 "McCready, Joan" <Joan.McCready@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Al - zero the fields?? shoot MAPICS??? - helpful in Missouri (or not), Joan

Joan McCready, IS Manager phone: 636-479-4499 MetalTek International fax: 636-479-3399 The Carondelet Division www.metaltekint.com 8600 Commercial Blvd Pevely, MO 63070