Re: MAPICS-L Digest, Vol 7, Issue 161

Therese,

I suggest that you ought to review (and probably somewhat re-do) your
queries and custom reports that today work off the Item Master files.
Presumably, you may also need to look at things that interrogate PSTRUC
and ROUTNG files.

You'll never have a better time to evaluate and change them (or possibly
eliminate some). And if the intend to take advantage of the EPDM
capabilities, you really should examine how the reports generate and what
data they include so that they remain relevant and also ACCURATE!

Very important is for the team to understand the difference between the
Engineering side and Inventory side of the MAPICS database. Also how
they relate to each other. This can get dicey when considering revision
tracking and effective dates in all the places those are used.

Also, as someone else said, Item Master continues to be used in today's
version, but it's slated for elimination, so what I'm suggesting is
something you will eventually NEED to do (not that far in the future). So
doing it while you have the team assembled makes sense to me.

In the meantime, to answer your specific question, you will not need to,
NOR WILL YOU BE ABLE to maintain Item Master A, B or C any longer. All
maintenance is done from EPDM and the released Site Item Revision record
(the one currently in effect in the Item Release file) is the one that
will be reflected in the PDM side of the database.

These things are complicated, as you are learning or have learned. If I
can be of further help to you or your team, please feel free to contact me
offline.
Thanks.



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From:
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To:
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Date:
09/12/2009 10:04 AM
Subject:
MAPICS-L Digest, Vol 7, Issue 161


Today's Topics:

1. Re: EPDM Issues and Concerns (Sansi, Jim)


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From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nemes, Therese
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:51 PM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [MAPICS-L] EPDM Issues and Concerns

Hello everyone,



We are going to be installing EPDM in a test environment in
the next couple of weeks. I told our "EPDM team" that I would post this
message on this site to receive input on any concerns and issues that
some of you came across when installing EPDM. There are always some
Gotcha's that we never know about or expect. One question I have is -
If we have programs and queries that are using the ITEMASA,B, or C files
do we need to convert and direct them to the ITMRVA,B,C files. Do we
ever have to do any maintenance to the ITEMASA,B, or C ever again?