Adding MLT with live BPCS!

["Hasnain Jaffery" <Hasnain_Jaffery@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One of our client is on BPCS V4.0.05CD using typical module in finance,
distribution and manufacturing areas. They were puurely working in the
local environment (both purchase and sales wise) so there was no need for
them to use MLT. What ever one-off requirement was there, they convered
these to the local currency and then booked. They even defined their
vendors with their own local currency. Over the years, this one-off
requirement increased and they kept on converting these in the the local
currency and then booking them. However, now they realised the use of MLT
so they purchased this new module to be added on top of the live and
runnign BPCS.
The questions that arise are:
How would BPCS deal with the new currencies for these different vendors? Do
they simply revise the vendors's currency and start booking in the foreign
currency? If yes, what would happen to the historical data?
If no and we need to define these vendors once again with new currencies,
how do we relate their balances (before and after the MLT induction)?
Or there is some third way?
Plsu, what other traps could be there? Their main area that is being
affected right now is Purchase - though we can expect down the line that if
there could be a sales scenario like this as well.
We asked helpline and they said it's not an helpline issue (though true)
and somebody suggested we need to prototype - but how and on what basis?
Any ideas, any suggestions, any advice is more than welcome! Has anyone
come across this situation? Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
HJ


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