Re: Pick Ship Confirm (was 4.05)

From Al Mac on 405 CD

There was some discussion of this in recent memory on BPCS_L but the archives 
are not yet back at Midrange.Com.  As I recall, there was some human error in 
the process of ORD570 which is a software flaw ... there should be some kind 
of audit trail of whatever people do, so that when we determine that it is 
messed up we can figure out how it got that way.  We have had variations of 
this when too many cooks failing to communicate effectively with each other 
... order is in middle of shipping & customer service changes it ... billing 
is running at the same time as shipping.

I searched my AOL e-mail to see if mail box agreed with memory (I have approx 
20,000 e-mails not yet deleted from it).

The first cut & paste here is the one that was in my organic memory - is this 
any help?

Subj:    Re: Pick Release/Pick Confirm
Date Vintage 99-09
From:   andrew_murphy@uk.xyratex.com (Andrew Murphy)

We had exactly the same problem on 6.0.02. We didn't think that training the
users not to use F6 was sufficient as mistakes would still occur so we
modified the AS/SET programs to remove the F6 logic. Now we normally use F15 -
Release by line.

Sue Underwood wrote:

> My client is on BPCS version 6.02 (plf) AS/400 V4R2 and today one of our
> worst dreams came true.  During our testing before going 'live', we
> realized that a lot of damage could be done when a user entered the pick
> release (ORD550) or pick confirm (ORD570) screens, made no selections, but
> pressed F6 to Accept.  Today, this happened "LIVE" with pick confirm.  All
> orders that had any releases were suddenly moved to ship confirm status.
>  (An interesting side-point is that the allocations were left in place and
> no B transactions occurred, but the bills of lading were created.)

Subj:    Re: Disable "Confirm All" in Pick Confirmation
Date:   99-12 - this discussion also seems close to your topic
Dean Asmussen
From:   WStaunton@burco.com (Staunton,Wade)
bpcsguru@yahoo.com (Boris)
>  --- Wendy DeCair <wendy.decair@countryfresh.com> 
From:   Washbean@aol.com
From:   Ata510@aol.com

The problem in that thread was that "Confirm All" in Pick Confirm can cause 
troubles & they wanted to add to the second layer of security to prohibit F14 
from ORD570 which is something doable in V6 via tweaking the security group 
file.  For those of us in V4 we might need to modify ORD570 to prohibit 
certain commands but the source code from As/Set is monstrous ... I know 
because I have tried to modify that.

Apparently there is also some FAQ about this on OSG.

You might check to see if the following scenario could be happening to you

> > I want to allow the users to confirm
> > individual orders but not let them hit the F14 command. 
> > My users are doing this by accident 
> > then trying to cancel the job while it is running.

Subj:    Re: IPP gets PICKER # from IWM
From:   bpcsmaynez@yahoo.com (Jesus Maynez)
was about duplicate document numbers when two people were trying to do the 
identical thing at the same time from two different work stations

Subj:    RE: Pick Confirm ECA...
From:   novakg@ssax.com (Genyphyr Novak)
gave us an update on PickConfirm gateway with SMGs (4.2) shipping with 6.1.01 
cum.

Subj:    RE: Pick Confirm ECA...
> From:     Kim Schrøder[SMTP:ksc@schouwpacking.dk]
was about how not to manage your e-mail when you are out of the office

> Subj:  BPCS version 4.05
>  
>  From Azeem Khan
>  
>  We have come across instances in the pick ship confirm program of order 
>  processing where the orders do not show up even though they have gone 
>  through the order processing cycle upto pick ship confirm.  In order to 
>  proceed we have to reset the in use flag in ECH to process those orders.  
>  Has anyone come across this situation in version 4.05?

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