FW: Drop Ship & Purchase Orders

We are on 6.0.02 March 98 cum.  Mixed mode.   We do drop shipments and have
had problems in the past but they were mainly due to not following the
procedure correctly.  We use the exact procedure that the user fupingren
specified.  We usually have to manually "kill" the order - setting the ECL
and ECH's 5 status fields  to 0 0 0 0 1.  And setting the HID in ECH and LID
in ECL to CZ and ZL.  Then we make the users redo the whole order. 

I do not recall an event quite like the one you're experiencing.   But we
have had negative line numbers in the ECL file before.   What we have found
is when the order is processing, BPCS changes the line numbers to negatives
and then, as it processes each line it changes the line number back to
positive.   When the orders have "broken" along the way, some lines have
stayed negative at the point it has "broken".   Did some or all of this
order get into BBH and BBL??

Debra Glass
Business Systems Analyst
CB Fleet  (Pharmaceuticals)
(804) 528-4000


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Munro [mailto:DMunro@badgerminingcorp.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 3:29 PM
To: BPCS List (E-mail)
Subject: Drop Ship & Purchase Orders


AS/400 V4R4M0 - behind one set of ptf's from the current set, groups & cum -
BPCS ver. 6.0.02 plf, full client/server, Mar'98 cum

When entering drop shipments, I have one order whose corresponding HPH/HPO
have invalid field contents & I cannot get to the order to finish the
billing process.  The po was receipted, a few lines here & a few there so
they never noticed the extra lines?????

I am comparing a "good" order & po set to the set "bad" I am having trouble
with.  They both are to the same customer/ship-to/item - just different
dates.

The "good" HPO purchase order detail contain the correct number of lines,
which is 40 & they are numbered 1 through 40.
The "good" HPO field PBUYC has a "7" & field PCLIN has "001".

The "bad" HPO purchase order detail contains an incorrect number of lines,
which is 55 & they are numbered 1 through 55.
The "bad" HPO field PBUYC has a " ".
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "029-" for order line 1.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "028-" for order line 2.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "027-" for order line 3.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "026-" for order line 4.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "025-" for order line 5.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "024-" for order line 6.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "023-" for order line 7.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "022-" for order line 8.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "021-" for order line 9.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "020-" for order line 10.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "019-" for order line 11.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "018-" for order line 12.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "017-" for order line 13.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "016-" for order line 14.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has negative "015-" for order line 15.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has positive "001" for order line 16.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has positive "002" for order line 17.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has positive "003" for order line 18.
The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has positive "004" for order line 19.

 and etc. through line 39

The "bad" HPO field PCLIN has positive "025" for order line 40.

For  purchase order detail records 41 through 55, PCLIN has a -0-(zeros) in
the field.

The "bad" ECH field HSTAT is an "E" (have not found a list of valid codes) &
the "good" ECH has a "7".
The "bad" ECL field LSTAT is an "E" & the "good" ECL has an "8".

Any clues as to what I need to do so I can complete the drop ship process?  

Or any clue as to what the operator may have done to give us our mess? 

Or any clue where the negative 29 comes in for the line number?

Any clue how it can count right & get to 40 & leave the last 15 po detail
records unsequenced?

Rather confused this day before Thanksgiving here in the States & I was
trying to end the week without any more problems????

I hope the abover makes sense because I'm not sure what we need to do to
rectify this error before month end.

Dennis Munro

"I love deadlines.  I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they
go flying by."  Dilbert's Words Of Wisdom:

Badger Mining Corporation
www.badgerminingcorp.com
dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com
(920) 361-2388

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