May 9 Billing

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

from Al Macintyre BPCS 405 CD

We managed to have a Decimal Data bomb with our May 9 shipping due to
(not a joking matter)
comedy of multiple human errors combination
& I tried to recover from BBL & ECH flags.

It looked to me like I had got the jobs to an almost satisfactory conclusion, 
after many hours of futzing around with this & I randomly checked data files 
for what we had shipped, such as what went into Receivables, Inventory 
Changes, and Revised customer Requirements.

I saw a lot of suspicious stuff, but was not able to identify anything 
specifically wrong with the data connected to my repair or defusing of the 
bomb, but since I do not normally involve myself in some details, I do not 
recognize what is normal garbage & what is garbage specific to this scenario, 
so I alerted my users to also do some checking of the data output.

Apparently many of my users also do not normally involve themselves in 
details of what is happening behind the BPCS scenes either, so now "lost soul 
Al" has grown to a mob of lost souls, with different people's minds boggled 
with different nuances.

Thanks to user at start of bomb taking cancel without capturing 2nd level 
details, I don't know specifics of what triggered it ... I only have 
suspicions.  Fortunately it has been many months since the last time we went 
down this particular memory lane, so hopefully we will get this mess cleaned 
up long before it happens again.

RAR file questions

Is it normal to have records with no customer #?  (All zeros is not a valid 
customer #)
I looked up sales order on some of them & they apparent duplicates with 
customer dropped & document numbering mismatch.
I was expecting possibly play money resupply orders.

What will happen to RAR records that do not have a valid customer but are on 
valid sales order?

Are receivables total to customer stored any place other than RAR & RCM?

If one of our good buddies, who knows all the answers, calls in (you know who 
you are) ... ask for Mike but wait until next week (he is out of town, 
talking to Al via PC Anywhere).

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

Incidentally, my home PC still has debris from last week's Love Worm, but I 
am making progress at the Norton site figuring out how to cope with that mess.
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