Re: Warehouse management

[Kpalmq <Kpalmq@xxxxxxx>]

In a message dated 98-01-16 15:03:49 EST, you write:

<< Our company is going to start investing the use of the Warehouse
 managment module of BPCS....   
 
 We currently use the generic INV500 type inventory transactions
 
 Does anyone have any generic or detail comments (good or bad) about this
 module... >>

After 2 years of expensive therapy you had to ask!!!   Seriously, be very
careful in your consideration of WHM.  It is not a tool for a fast moving, "do
it now and catch up later" organization.  I was involved with a client
installing BPCS 5.1 who against all advice insisted on running WHM.  The
implementation was horrible -- many programs needed extensive rework to
function.  Eccentric program architecure (e.g. subfiles and S/36 style screen
arrays in the same program) was rampant.  Testing was obviously not
sufficiently performed.  Despite all this, and more, the client insisted on
going live with WHM.  They got behind in transactions from Day 1.  (An aside:
WHM  multiplied your required transactions considerably).  They never could
catch up.  After 1 month they decided to pull the plug and convert the managed
warehouse back to non-managed.  This also required a bit of effort as the file
structures are different, but was the 2nd best decision they could have made
(1st was to scrap the whole thing at the outset).  Anyway, your situation may
be totally different, but if WHM is taken seriously in your organzation I'm
glad I'm not in your shoes.  Now the big caveat:  these opinions are just
that, merely opinions and are mine alone.

Kevin Palmquist    
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