Re: cycle counting challenges

I was visiting some web sites that describe BPCS enhancements & while looking 
at some stuff, thought "Hey, isn't this what Wendy was looking for?" but did 
not have her posting handy when I was at the URLs or vica-versa.

Wendy should at least look at what they have to offer vs. her needs.

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/services.html
check out the path to
BPCS PRODUCTS & SERVICES
BELLS & WHISTLES
OTHER
CLASS A CYCLE COUNTER

This is something they developed for pre-405 but they can bring forward to 
your BPCS version

http://www.johnson-schley.com
check out the path to
BPCS ENHANCEMENTS
PHYSICAL INVENTORY

I plan to visit & re-visit some more web sites of BPCS consultants to see if 
there is stuff already offered that is close to some stuff we have been 
thinking about modifying.  I think it would be great if there was one URL we 
could go to & do a search on type of BPCS modification interest e.g. Shipping 
Documents or ORD500 streamlining & up would pop a bunch of links to BPCS_L 
threads & various consultants that already have relevant services.

Al Macintyre
Central Industries
http://www.cen-elec.com

> Subj:  Re: inventory reporting
>  From:        whdecair@countryfresh.com (Wendy DeCair)
>  
>  Hi
>  We are running version 6.002 BPCS CS.
>  My company produces milk and other just in time dairy products.  At any
>  given point in the day we may be taking orders and producing milk with 'no
>  inventory'.  The order program is from a third party vendor with an
>  interface written to affect inventories as items are ordered, then  picked
>  and then sold.
>  Here is the problem:  we have tried to do cycle counting but once an order
>  is ready to be picked it is immediately relieved from the BPCS inventory
>  total.  We may have the product in the cooler when the count was taken, but
>  by the time we get ready to key  in  the count, 400 transactions have
>  occured.  If you use one step cycle counting it doesn't total up all the
>  transactions for you and we only have a one hour window to get these keyed
>  into the system.  Our clerks don't have time to recalculate the count for
>  each and every item.  Has anyone used a different transaction or
>  modified/created a new cycle counting program?  What I think the cycle
>  counting should do is create an onhand balance at the time the cycle count
>  sheet was printed and let me work toward that balance not the balance at 
the
>  time I key the count in.
>  Any recommendations.  This is seriously hampering our efforts to expand our
>  use of BPCS.
>  
>  Wendy DeCair
>  Country Fresh Inc
>  Suiza Foods
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