Re: Standard Cost Change

> If you query the '#' transactions in ITH file (by part number in question)
>  and look at the ttdte and thuser and thtime you should be able to find out
>  who generated the cost roll.

I have seen the "#" from CST100 in BPCS 405 CD ... do these "#" also come 
from all other CST updates?  Do they only occur if something changed or just 
if CST program touched the item?  Is there a field that tells us WHICH 
program touched the costs?

> do you have users entering costs and performing cost roll-ups, perhaps 
> unknown to the mis dept?

Kusman Lim needs to tell this group what the PROBLEM is that leads to the 
question.  Have you found some questionable costs & how do you know the 
system is not right?

Do you have some WEIRD costs that might be coming from bugs in the software 
that only you run, or do you have some cost changes that are occurring 
outside of the normal flow of activity?

Yes I have found bugs in CST600 & other CST programs & reported them to SSA & 
been told it supposed to work that way (give wrong answers to math & generate 
mountains of garbage print outs).

Check your security ... who all is authorized to run which CST programs that 
can change standard costs ... who all can change BPCS files outside of BPCS 
programs

Check your assumptions ... we found that by explicitly saying things like 
"Well all our costs should be BY FACILITY;" 
"All the values in all cost fields should be a positive number or zero."

then running lists of costs that were outside what should be, we were finding 
lots of records outside our assumptions, that had been messing up reports 
built on those certain assumptions.

While going through the software logic, you come to a field "Oh we do not use 
that" ... check it out ... perhaps someone by mistake got data into that 
field & that is causing some of your problems, especially if SYS800 says we 
aint using that but it got populated anyway, so the programs that use SYS800 
parameters hide it & those that don't are now contaminated.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Green Screen 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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