Re: Running out of Buyer Codes

["Lisa Abney" <abney@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: Running out of Buyer Codes

I like your upper/lower case solution ... I may need it some day, as well!

 

We've had a similar problem (in 4.0.5) with planner codes.  We have multiple manufacturing facilities, and we use the same planner code with a unique facility.  As we do everything by facility, I can request, for example, an MRP250 report for facility XX, planner code X, and always get just what I want to see.  This at least gives us 36 planners per facility.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolf, Roger <Roger.Wolf@garmin.com>
To: 'BPCS-L@midrange.com' <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Cc: 'andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com' <andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: Running out of Buyer Codes

Just an idea = have the field upper and lower case = 62 companinzation 26 uppercase letters 26 lowercase letters 10 number.

That would be the easy thing to do.

Best Regards,
Roger

-----Original Message-----
From:   andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com [SMTP:andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com]
Sent:   Thursday, April 22, 1999 1:28 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.
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Andrew Murphy
XYRATEX
Havant, UK
www.xyratex.com
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