Re:

You might want to take this off-line if further exploration desired since 
there have been lots of past threads on BPCS documentation, so you must be a 
new member of BPCS_L that joined since them, but I have cut out the other 
stuff & inserted more info on the two documentation sources you asked about.

>  From:    Hasnain_Jaffery@acproj.com (Hasnain Jaffery)
>  
<Al Mac snipping all over>

>  Mac,
>  What are these DSL manuals and UPI manuals? How can somebody access / get 
/ buy them?
 
>  > From: nsangameswaran5@usa.net (Narayan S)
>  >
>  >  Does anyone have listing 

>  I can answer part of this ...
>  
>  the DSL manual would have the whole entire picture of file & interface
>  innards from perspective of computer management & power user enhancements

I do not believe this outfit has a web site ... I will have to dig into past 
e-mail to get the address & phone # ... and buried some place at the office I 
have the table of contents of the manual which I asked for to see if it was 
worth while for us to get & it was, but I am up to here in other things to 
look at.

The BPCS reference manual by David Slicker is like a reverse engineering of 
what all the files are & what they are used for & what all the codes in all 
those fields MEAN.

>  the UPI manuals have the major files by application with update paths 
>  from a realistic user & management by application

The UPI manuals cost like $250.00 each & each one covers a group of related 
integrated applications, like ... I do not have them in front of me so 
appologies if I did not get this quite right

understanding costing & how it fits into the engineering BOM routings area & 
a whole lot more
planning modules - MRP CAP DRP JIT SFC PUR etc. & how they all fit together
financials & traditional accounting modules

If I remember correctly there are 6 manuals in the set.

However, the lists of major files are rather simplistic from perspective of 
MIS or power user ... the UPI manuals are reviewing how all the programs fit 
together, the normal flow of what we are supposed to do, they are not getting 
into the innards of the files involved for people interested in modifications 
& what files are best to use for what added reports.  You have to supplement 
them with other resources.

get more specifcs from the UPI web site

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/bpcsconsulting.html

Other consultants offer some really useful stuff to help us clients fill in 
the SSA gaps.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor

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