RE: Why did you choose BPCS -- BPCS-L

We are not a BPCS user now and probably not a prospect, so I don't want to
take up too much mail list bandwidth here.  I just an end-user of another
ERP system that follows mail lists for BPCS, JDE, JBA and SAP and I'm
intrigued by the trials and tribulations of other users.

We use JBA on an AS/400, which is far from perfect, but is pretty stable and
performs decently for Distribution and Financials.  We don't do any
manufacturing.  The funny thing is that I really wanted a Client/Server
solution when shopping for ERP systems in June 1997 and yet that seems to be
the biggest problem with BPCS and JDEdwards.  I find it funny how many JDE
sites are turning to MS Terminal Server to solve WAN problems.  JBA has a
simple GUI screen scraper front end which runs on plain TCP/IP which over
time is looking better and better to me.  They developed some Visual Basic
front ends to their programs, but they were never released to user base due
to performance problems.  They are developing some Java front-ends now, but
the more fancy GUI screens are no longer a high priority with me.  We looked
at BPCS some in 97, but they didn't seem that interested in wholesale
distributors.  

Prior to my message prompting a few users to "come to the defense" of BPCS,
I had never heard any user or vendor say anything positive about BPCS.

Now I'll go back to being a silent observer of the proceedings and leave
everyone to solve their business needs.  

Dan Thomas
Sr. VP Information Systems
Medical Distribution, Inc.
4500 Progress Blvd
Louisville, KY  40218-5058
Phone (502) 454-9013 ext 120
email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Curtis [mailto:mark.curtis@hafele.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:09 AM
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Why did you choose BPCS


Dan,

Why did I choose BPCS ....

Value for money, flexibility, openness, easy development, ease of use,
expandability ... and did I mention year 2000 compliance.

We are on Unix/Informix and have written a lot of additional code in VB
using ODBC and making use of SMG's.  The underlying data structure to BPCS
is easy to work with and given a development team very very quick to expand.
We added a whole warehousing system in around 3 months.

And I must agree with George Sagen, on a mailing list used for problem
sharing and solving you will get the impression the system is bug ridden
(which of course it has its share but how many packages can you name that
are bug free ?)

???? Why do you ask ????

Regards
Mark Curtis
IT Director
Hafele U.K. Limited
Tel : +44 (0)1788 542020
Fax : +44 (0)1788 541860
email : mailto:mark.curtis@hafele.co.uk
Web : http://www.hafele.co.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bpcs-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-bpcs-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Dan Thomas
Sent: 09 June 1999 18:41
To: 'bpcs-l@midrange.com'
Subject: Why did you choose BPCS


I've followed this mail list for about five months now and most of the
comments seem to be rather negative about performance and stability.  I
realize these forums are not always indicative of the entire user base, but
I'm curious what is driving users to choose BPCS or even stay with it.

Dan Thomas
Sr. VP Information Systems
Medical Distribution, Inc.
4500 Progress Blvd
Louisville, KY  40218-5058
Phone (502) 454-9013 ext 120
email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com

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