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Interesting concept! We have done a mod (in 4.0.5) to order entry to keep them from ordering partial units. If an item is packed 4 gallons to a case (case being the stocking unit of measure), and a customer tries to order 6 gallons, when the system goes to the IUM file to convert it to cases, it gives them a message that says to either order 1 case or 2 cases. We've never tried to do anything from an inventory management or BOM side. MacWheel99@aol.com on 10/14/99 01:41:48 PM Please respond to BPCS-L@midrange.com To: BPCS-L@midrange.com (BPCS Users Mailing List) cc: dlwall1@vincennes.net (Dave Waller), jcoop@midwest.net (Jerry Cooper) (bcc: Lisa Abney/Flavor-Indianapolis/NAFL/UFC) Subject: NOT Whole Numbers of BPCS Inventory We have had an intermittent problem with materials that should always have whole numbers quantities, that people tend to discover by accident, when we really need the item, but due to errors of various kinds, our inventory went incorrect & we did not know it, and we would like to find & fix this sort of thing before it gets us in trouble. I just created a report which calculated the on-hand for items whose Unit of Measure is EA ("each" should be individual units), moved the decimal portion to a field 3.3 decimal only, then print only if that field is not zero & my report found 35 items, which we are working on auditing & fixing. This is our latest in a series of reports that in aggregate can analyse every field in every file & tell us various things wrong that need to be fixed, but in an ideal world we should have systems in place so that we would not have the errors in the first place. The older version of BPCS/36 had a deal where at some level like item class we could say that a category of items needed to figure their on-hand to 5 decimal places, or be in whole numbers, or some such rule. Is there such a reality for BPCS 405 that perhaps we have overlooked? If we were using such a business rule, then it ought to prevent BOM & routings creations that result in the kind of error found to have contributed to the first item we checked out ... we have labor transactions through JIT that are consuming fractions of items that should come in whole numbers. Al Macintyre BPCS 405 CD on AS/436 V4R3 +--- | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com +--- +--- | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com +---
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