Re: Running out of Buyer Codes

[bhenson1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (brad henson)]

you may have some options depending on what you are using the buyer
codes for.  

if you are using PO consolidation, perhaps you can use the combination
of planner codes and buyer codes to filter the planned orders being
viewed.

in our case, we ran out of planner codes and had to use the special
characters and then we designed our reports to sort on the planner
code, then vendor code, then buyer code, etc.



On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:27:40 +0100, you wrote:

>
>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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