Re: BPCS V6.1- Exclude some customer in Billing

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  From:    adnansr@usa.net (Adnan Siddiqui)
>  
>  Looking for suggestion in following scenario.
>  BPCS version 6.1
>  AS/400, Module : Billing
>  
>  We daily running billing for all customer range (Say Customer# 001 - 500).
>  sometimes we want to exclude customer (may be 075,123,325) from billing. 
For
>  this, we use to De-select these customer records from the second panel of
>  Billing. But even then, billing process these records and create invoices.
>  
>  Can someone suggest any alternative!!!
>  Thanks for time!!!
>  Adnan 

I am on V 405 CD so my suggestions may not all apply.

I do not know if V6 still supports something that worked in V4 ... run 
Billing in a series of batches ... Customers 0-074 076-122 124-324 326-999999 
... which can be a pain if there are a lot of customers you want to skip for 
any length of time.

Can the customers, that you do not want to bill, be reassigned a new customer 
# in some range, like 99900 - 99999?

Is this a permanent situation ... ship stuff, but never bill it ... in which 
case I might be tempted to muck with the BBL record, or is it that you just 
want to delay billing on some customers, in which there are some kind of 
group codes that you might be able to apply at the point of shipping.

Is your scenario such that you do not want to add anything to receivables on 
these customers ... no problem with creating an invoice whose $$$ are zero & 
whose Mail to address has been changed so that it is not a valid address, in 
case accidentally folded up in envelopes without anyone noticing the 
substituted statement about how to process it?

We deal with shipments in which the parts were consigned, or what we are 
shipping are samples of our first production of a proposed engineering 
change, or other scenarios in which the normal pricing rules do not apply, 
but we still have to make sure our inventory & orders are correct & running 
them through the same process is the simplest way, with a few exceptions.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 running on 
AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of Indiana--->Quality 
manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical sub-assemblies

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