ERP Education & BPCS Specific

A member of BPCS_L asked me about this off-line, and my answer had to do with 
what was generally available in that person's nation & language, but I also 
have similar situation where I work.  Management is reviewing budget for 
continuing education.  People have had some ERP & BPCS & Computer training in 
the past but we move up to new responsibilities, have new hires.

I think we all need periodic grounding in the fundamentals of ERP, explain 
this new stuff & there is no such thing as an inexpensive book "ERP for 
Dummies."  I want us all to get some education from http://www.apics.org, 
read books of Olly Wight, watch the Dave Buker Tapes, attend the BPCS 
conventions.

I have added to the User Menus with some that are directories of BPCS 
navigation ... every line is an "H", telling Query creators where to find the 
data.  I pass around the latest issue of www.MidrangeEnterprise.com & other 
publications & share various URLs I encounter like 
http://www.bourkeconsulting.com http://www.mmisoft.com 
http://www.erpsupersite.com:8080/~1 with interesting ERP insights.

Our CEO has recommended reading lists for upper management.

We have had specific corporate education in the past that I thought was great 
& I point to those scenarios, asking that we have something similar again 
every couple of years.

I want my people exposed to periodic classes in Query/400, data base 
manipulation, theory of BPCS Costing, navigating BPCS files, PC tools that 
are a good match with our ERP data & how to populate them correctly.  But 
what I want is miles above any reasonable expected budget.

I want to suggest to management how to get the biggest bang for any funds 
they can allocate.
I want to suggest to co-workers where to get an improved grounding in 
principles of ERP without spending a small fortune.

I subscribe to every BPCS newsletter I can find & I pass them around to my 
co-workers.  We have several under utilized resources, such as UPI manuals 
sitting in one person office, but the 99% of the manuals & tapes that were in 
the conference room for corporate sharing have managed to walk away 
permanently.  I think we may need a system of checking ERP out of a library, 
like we have for factory floor tools.

I urge my boss to release our OSG password to more co-workers.
I urge my co-workers to bookmark BPCS-L archives & use it to search for 
answers to questions as they come up.
What am I missing?

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
AS/400 Data Manager & Programmer for BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 mixed mode (twinax 
interactive & batch) @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies - fax # 812-424-6838

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