RE: Customer Allocations - Incorrect Display????

["Bailey, Dick" <Dick_Bailey@xxxxxxxx>]

        Sorry I was not clear - the issue is that BPCS is deducting the quantity
from Customer Allocations BEFORE the order is Pick Confirmed - when it becomes
Ready for Pick Confirm.

        Dick

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   naomiruben [mailto:naomiruben@email.msn.com]
                Sent:   Monday, November 13, 2000 9:28 AM
                To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
                Subject:        Re: Customer Allocations - Incorrect Display????

                Dick Hi!

                I don't think the display is incorrect.

                Until the order is shipped, the order is still open and that is
why it shows
                in INV300-03 (Material Status Inquiry - Orders). However,
according to BPCS
                logic (which I don't totally agree with, but it has been design
that way),
                once the order is Pick Confirmed, the inventory is relieved,
therefore
                canceling the allocations (the items are not promised anymore
because they
                are not in the inventory anymore).

                The point of argument should be if it is correct to relieve
inventory after
                pick confirm or should it be relieved only after ship confirm
(and/or
                billing). It is my humble opinion that it should not be relieved
after pick
                confirm and incidentally you are not alone having problems with
this
                approach, many clients of mine have the same problem and we have
had to find
                a work around to solve it.

                But if the inventory IS relieved at pick confirm the allocations
should
                really be cancelled, otherwise you would have duplications.

                I hope I don't sound too ambiguous, so to summarize, I think it
is wrong to
                relieve inventory at pick confirm, but if the design does that,
yes it
                should cancel the allocations at that time. And that is what
INV300 is
                showing you.

                Regards,

                Ruben Mirensky

                .

                ----- Original Message -----
                From: Bailey, Dick <Dick_Bailey@MCFA.COM>
                To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
                Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 8:01 AM
                Subject: Customer Allocations - Incorrect Display????


                >
                > Does anyone know why the Customer Allocation total showing on
INV300
                > screens and recorded in field WCUSA in the CIC file EXCLUDES
the quantity
                picked
                > (LQPCK) in ECL?
                >
                > The detail shown on INV300-03 (Material Status Inquiry -
Orders) DOES
                > show these orders as open.  One sample I'm looking at shows
open orders
                totaling
                > 32 when the Customer Allocation total is 24. Two of the
orders, for a
                total of
                > 8,  are picked.  There are no manufacturing allocations.
                >
                > Is this a bug?  Is there some logical reason why picked
quantities are
                > not shown in the Customer Allocation total?  It is messing up
our planning
                > system.
                >
                > We are in BPCS 6.1. Thanks.
                >
                > Dick bailey
                > MCFA
                >
                >
                >
                >
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