Re: Resupply Orders BPCS 6.1

[Devinbowen@xxxxxxx]

Bottom Line:  Poor design (IMHO).  

For what it's worth, the structure of the Item Warehouse Inventory file (IWI) 
is such that customer order and shop order demand is combined into one field 
(WCUSA - Allocated to Orders), not separated out like it is in the Item 
Master (IIM) - ICUSA and IPRDA.  This is why MSI runs home to IIM to get the 
data (it can't diferentiate at the IWI level).  The design is silly because 
almost nobody cares about data like this at the GLOBAL level unless you have 
only one whse.  If you're actually using BPCS, the data is misleading at 
best.  You have to get to the source of the demand (detail files) before the 
info is meaningful.  Go back to ECL and FSO - these files will give you the 
basis of what you're looking for.  

If you have v6.0.04 or v6.1 and are full client/server, hide the fields in 
MSI and you'll avoid the questions.  I've heard of companies rewriting the 
logic to sum these MSI values from detail records so that they can be 
filtered by whse, but performance would surely suffer.


Devin
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