Re: 405 CD oops BNET

In order to get sales history right for billing of item shipped and billed
with zero price.  Do a credit line with zero price for quantity shipped then
do a bill line with price for quantity shipped, this will not change any
quantities in inventory or sales but will correct sales dollars.
Should be able to do both lines on same document.

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From: MacWheel99@aol.com <MacWheel99@aol.com>
To: BPCS Users Discussion Group <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: 405 CD oops BNET


>I posted this when the midrange.com ISP was apparently down & got no
response
>so I reposting it just in case Y"all did not see it ... I am now assured
the
>ISP is back up again.
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>From:   MacWheel99@aol.com (Al Macintyre)
>
>We are 405 CD AS/400 V4R3 mixed mode.
>
>Human errors without proper edit checking sometimes leads to zero price
that
>should be standard price (e.g. someone field exited through field in
error.),
>or shipping reported wrong quantity going out, and this is not caught until
>after BIL500 invoices are printed.
>
>Accounting gets correct info from customer service, then bills customer for
>missing $ receivables via BIL600 ... they claim there is no way they can
>attribute this to specific customer item & it has no effect on fixing
>inventory (if wrong quantity) or sales history.
>
>If the error was price accidentally missing from customer order, then
>shipping action got inventory Ok, but overall billing history by item still
>shows understated pricing.
>
>If the error was shipping documents out of sync with reality going out the
>door, we also have to make an inventory adjustment & history of shipping
>still shows the bad stuff.
>
>It is almost like we need a shipping adjustment process that generates
>corrected billing to hit all the same files so the aggregate data evens out
>plus has a good audit trail from any perspective, except unless the error
is
>that we actually shipped the wrong stuff, these shipping documents are not
>accompanied by actual shipments.
>
>We can enter negatives to factory orders to make corrections for prior
>mispostings, can we also do likewise in the customer order shipping?
>
>I told my co-workers that if they were to use an RMA, or dummy customer
order
>structure, then bill adj off  that, the process will fix history, invoice,
>accounting, the works, all will be in sync & if we had auditors who knew
what
>the **** censored **** we are really doing, then they would also be happy.
>
>My co-workers say an RMA is for customer physically returning some
defective
>parts for which they need a credit, and whose repair QC needs to monitor.
It
>is not for fixing errors in our computerized paperwork.  It also seems to
me
>that Customer Service does not have the staff to be doing dummy orders to
>correct other department errors.
>
>My next proposal is to list BBL after shipping but before Billing & if any
>BNET (Bill Price) is zero, plug in the list price instead (initially via
>DFU), unless someone has notified us in advance of some legitimate
exception
>... ie. do not modify the billing program to install default price because
of
>occasional legitimate exceptions.  It also occurs to me that resupply
orders
>to a dummy warehouse just for customer exceptions might work, since we are
>using them to handle zero profit (on each other facilities) intra company,
>but at the moment what we are doing with resupply orders is in my dog
house -
>I want it fixed before expansion.
>
>Please tell me other BPCS users have tackled this before & see no adverse
>consequences of my proposal.
>
>What triggered this interest at this time ... I created a new query over
SSD
>file with sales dollars last month 01 divided by quantity shipped equals
>average billing price.  I compared this to list price & printed
differences.
>Many co-workers unhappy to see high volume of zero price shipments.
>Accounting says "Oh we saw that soon after it happened, and we fixed our
>receivables."  But there is unhappiness that corrections are not getting
into
>sales history by item.
>
>Al Macintyre  ©¿©
>Green Screen BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 running on AS/400 V4R3
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