Re: Allocation of inventory to orders

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

Rick J. Carter writes:

> BPCS Version 6.02  AS/400 MixMode

We are on BPCS 405 CD which may not work same way --- 

We also have an intermittent challenge due to inventory inaccuracy at time of
shipment --- the shipping clerk is able to make an adjustment inside ORD590 to
ship more inventory than the computer is aware of.    But we also sometimes
ship more than the order line calls for, at which point our sales department
would like to adjust requirements to agree with what we actually shipped, but
now it is too late to get into the order lines.  Then our inventory &
production people are struggling with negative inventory needing adjustment,
and sometimes negative allocations, which we clean up by reorganization of
allocations off of the system reorganization menu.

>  We appear to have a problem when an order is partially shipped due to the 
>  lack of inventory.  When inventory becomes available, the system looks to
be 
>  automatically allocating that available inventory to orders.  Per our 
>  shipping manager this is happening without any intervention on our part.
Is 
>  anyone else seeing this type of automatic allocation of inventory.

This is the way BPCS used to work on S/36 & it was a big nuisance, that has
now gone away --- we might look in the System Parameters SYS800 to see if
there is some setting that influences how this is supposed to work.

Al Macintyre
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