Re: Serial number -- MAPICS-L

Dale,
Can you look at the "top level" item and view it (with all its' components)
like an indented BOM?

Eric

P.S. MAPICS serial number is 25 but has difficulty with alphanumeric serial
numbers and it truncates leading zeros...

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> Greg,
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> We can't use what MAPICS provides for 2 reasons.
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> 1.  Serial number field is only 15 characters.  Ours is a government
> formatted 17 characters.
> 2.  No component serial number tracking.
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> We had to write our own.
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> Dale Gindlesperger
> IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
> Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
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> Jon brings up some good issues.  How do you relate your serial number back
> to the customer order?  Is the CO number keyed in?  How about customer
> name?
> Do you need to relate back to the manufacture of the product?  Is the MO
> number also keyed in?  What other information must be (re)keyed into the
> spreadsheet that already exists in Mapics?  Spreadsheets cannot be
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> outside of the spreadsheet (or not easily).  The data belongs on the
> iSeries
> where it can be managed and tracked.  Why not use what Mapics provides?
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> -Greg
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> From: jleroi@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jleroi@xxxxxxxxx]
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> We use serial numbers for a small percentage of but high dollar value
> items.
> The parts have different warranty time frames so tracking is easier with
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> data in MAPICS. Having the data in one place makes life easier for our
> users
> when they wish to create adhoc queries.
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> If you are tracking data in a spread sheet, you are rarely doing your
> organization a favor. At some point, either access to the data or validity
> of the data becomes an issue. I have been asked too many times to try and
> cleanup a spreadsheet so that the data entered can be matched to our
> production data. Luckily, there are a lot of tools available for
> manipulating cell entries but at some point it takes a manual process to
> evaluate what is there and force it to match what is in production. It is
> rarely faster to key the data into a spreadsheet than to enter it into
> MAPICS and especially since there is a place holder for the data already.
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> Obviously there are a number of issues around things like this. I usually
> refer to the fact that we are responsible for insuring the availability of
> accurate data to all users when it is needed. A spreadsheet is not a
> convienent location for multiple people to access data at the same time
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> a single record nor does it usually insure accurate data or allow for data
> protection via things like journalling, change control, etc.
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> Just my 2 cents.
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> Jon Le Roi
> Director of I.T.
> Tegal Corporation
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> We don't use MAPICS to handle the serial numbers, but do have a file on
> the I-Series to store the info.
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> Convincing users that it would be better can be tough.  If you put it on
> the I-Series, either in MAPICS or your own, people could inquire on the
> data without contacting others.  Are the serial numbers bar-coded, so that
> someone does not have to manually record the data?  You can write some
> reports based on serial number data that you may not have now.
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> We only serialize about 30% of what goes out the door (line items) and
> our products have lifetime warranty.  Obviously, with that kind of
> warranty, our return rate is very low due to the high quality of the
> product.  Our quality tech assigns the serial numbers and keys into
> excel.  How can I convince anyone that this info would be better put
> into mapics?  Or, do I even try?
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> We scan and record the Serial Number of >90% of what goes out of our
> door.
>  We have a Five year warranty on almost all, then a three year on the
> rest.  This info is picked up from the Item Master at shipping time
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> whether or not "Serial Number Required" is checked.  I honestly don't
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> how we would handle this manually...
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> Lloyd H. Degnon
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> AmPro Computers, Inc.
> 5215 Hellyer Ave.
> Building #110
> San Jose, CA 95138
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> Is anyone using the Mapics serial number capability?  Can anyone give me
> the benefits of having the serial number in mapics (other than lookup
> capabilities) rather than an external database?  I'm having trouble
> getting change to occur -our users are quite content to leave this in an
> excel spreadsheet and have customer service call quality when they need
> to know what went where.
> Thanks in advance,
> Teresa Biby
> Virginia Panel Corporation
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