RE: Running out of Buyer Codes

["Lacelle, Marc" <LACELLE@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bad news Andrew. The Buyer Code Table is a reserved table. You cannot change
the field length. The data files that contain Buyer Codes are CIC, HPH, IIM,
KFP, HPO. There are probably more we do not have all the BPCS modules. The
field length is 1 (alphanumeric) in all of these data files. 



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> andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com[SMTP:andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com]
> Reply To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Thursday, April 22, 1999 2:27 AM
> To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Running out of Buyer Codes
> 
> 
> Has anybody else run out of buyer codes?
> 
> We are using BPCS v6.0.02 and will soon have more than 36 buyers. As the
> buyer code field is 1 character we have exhausted all letters and
> numbers and the only solution we can see is to start assigning '$', '@'
> etc. as buyer codes (which will not go down too well with the buyers
> themselves and could be mis-interpreted on the reports and documentation
> we produce).
> 
> We have sized a modification to allow 2 character buyer codes but the
> cost of doing this is prohibitive. Our buyers are aligned by both
> commodity and vendor and there do not appear to be any rules stating
> which buyer buys from which vendors for which commodities.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew.
> ---------------------------------------
> Andrew Murphy
> XYRATEX
> Havant, UK
> www.xyratex.com
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