Re: Cost Roll-Up

["Chick Doe" <Cdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i have to agree with the statements made about erroneous cmf records, yes we 
get them also: negative costs, bucket zero records without any detailed cost 
records, multiple cost records with the same key, bucket zero records that are 
not the sum of the other cost buckets. 

we are on  v6.04 and i have sent several of these problems into the help desk. 
whether they have all been fixed or not i don't know. you might want to look at 
the cst500/cst600 for any bmr activity. we wrote our own program to run through 
the cmf records and clear out the illogical ones. this has helped us a lot! one 
thing that i can state from experience is WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT LET TWO COST 
ROLL-UPS EXECUTE AT THE SAME TIME. IF YOU DO, YOU'LL LOOKING AT MULTIPLE CMF 
RECORDS WITH THE SAME KEY!

chick doe
barton instrument systems

>>> MacWheel99@aol.com 11/11/00 08:17AM >>>
> If there are duplicate records in CMF (Don't know why they get created)

Check CIC ... we have garbage records in both CMF & CIC & they are often for 
the same items ... CIC gets the garbage then passes it along to CMF.

CIC is supposed to get records added when there is activity that belongs in 
MRP or costing ... people sometimes make mistakes, so there is also stuff 
there thanks to all mistakes ever made.

Cleaning up garbage in files can eliminate a host of problems - check BPCS_L 
archives for more clues.

Do not rely exclusively on vanilla BPCS to check your records.
We have a phenomena we call "invisible costs" ... records invisible to 
CST100, that normally go undiscovered until we are purging the system of 
obsolete parts.  Usually they are bucket-zero records (total of all other 
buckets) in which there are no other buckets.

We are facility specific but we have tons of CIC & CMF records with no 
facility.
We have negative costs (do not know what causes this - need to journal), 
usually in previous levels, that we clean up periodically - I have no idea 
what consequences negative costs have on various BPCS programs.

Alister William Macintyre 
Computer Data Janitor etc. of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 on 400 model 170 OS4 V4R3 
(forerunner to IBM e-Server i-Series 400)  @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central 
Industries of Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and 
electrical sub-assemblies

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