RE: Shop Order Close

We're on version 6.0.02 C/S so I'm not sure everything applies in the same
way, but it doesn't sound terribly different on the face of it.  So I
thought I would offer my input for how we handle routine processing although
I don't think I can help more than Marc has with the clean-up.

We run CST900 nightly because we use average costing and can have huge
variations in our inventories from the beginning of the month to the end of
the month because part of our processing is seasonal.  So frequent cost
updates minimize the error built into the average actual cost calculation.
We also have Performance Measurement installed but don't use it.  But it
becomes a critical part of how we handle this.

You can run CST900 and still be able to update shop orders as long as they
are not closed.  They are only closed by this process if the quantity
remaining has been reduced to zero, or the last operation has been manually
flagged as complete.  I don't know why you would want to update a shop order
if these conditions were true.  As long as that's a good assumption, you can
run CST900 as often as you want.  

Our wrinkle was that Operations Managers still wanted to be able to view
closed shop orders on-line for awhile after they were closed and the nightly
CST900 would purge them.  But if performance management is installed they
won't purge.  So we turned on the flag that says Performance Mangement is
installed.  At period close we turn off the flag before running CST900 so
the closed purchase orders for the month will be purged, write them to a
back up file to retain the history and allow special reports, then we turn
the flag back on after running CST900 so we're set for the next daily run.


Martha Bayer
mbayer@badgerminingcorp.com
920-361-2388

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Pedersen [SMTP:dpedersn@execpc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 6:36 PM
> To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Shop Order Close
> 
>  
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Lisa Abney < abney@iquest.net <mailto:abney@iquest.net>>
>       To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <mailto:BPCS-L@midrange.com> <
> BPCS-L@midrange.com <mailto:BPCS-L@midrange.com>>
>       Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 9:33 PM
>       Subject: Shop Order Close
>       
>       
>       We're on version 4.0.5, and would sure appreciate some help with the
> shop
>       order close process.  We went up on BPCS in March '95, and were told
> at that
>       time by our consultants not to run Shop Order Close (CST900, as we
> have
>       costing installed), as we wouldn't be able to make adjustments to
> shop
>       orders.  Now, I'm sure they meant that to be a temporary thing, as
> we went
>       through the initial learning process, but 4 1/2 years later, we
> still
>       haven't done it!
>       
>       The biggest reason we need to do it, we've discovered, is that we
> would like
>       to do some clean-up in our item master, but you can't inactivate an
> item
>       master that has a shop order.
>       
>       I called the SSA help desk on this, and they warned me this may take
> in the
>       neighborhood of days (or weeks?!) to run the first time, as we have
> 220,000
>       records in the FSO file.  (He said most people run this process at
> least
>       weekly ... whoops!)
>       
>       I've played around with this in a test envionment, and it's going to
> be a
>       real pain, I can tell.  We also have performance measurement
> installed
>       (although we've never used), which apparently means I have to close
> each
>       period for each facility individually before I can even do CST900.
>       
>       Does anyone have an easy solution?  All I really care about is
> cleaning up
>       my FSO (and, I suppose, the FMA) so that I will be able to
> inactivate some
>       item numbers ... I don't care about performance measurement, the
> costing
>       stuff, etc.
>       
>       Any suggestions would be welcome!
>       
> 
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