Month End Close

[<tmakofske@xxxxxxxx> (Tom J. Makofske)]

Good Afternoon Everyone.  We are in process of installing BPCS (6.1.01) and 
have come across a bit of a month end road block. We have about a dozen 
company owned plants and about another dozen facilities which do copacking 
operations for us.  In our current system, we are able to close each plant 
independently, and then proceed with the new month transactions for that 
plant immediately.  After all the plants close their inventories for the 
month (usually a 3 day process), we post the inventory transactions for the 
month to the General Ledger.  I understand that in BPCS, all plant 
inventories must be closed at one time, and only after that, may the 
transactions for the new month be entered.  Considering our busy season has 
many of our plants working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I think we may have 
a problem.  

Getting all of our facilities to close within a few hours would be close to 
impossible without even considering the 4 time zones they cross.  We have 
been told that it would be extremely complex to modify the INV900 series of 
month end programs to  update by warehouse and that the chances of success 
would be slim.  I am finding it hard to believe that a system like BPCS 
wouldn't have a solution to this problem.  I'm sure many other companies have 
had to embrace this same issue, and I would greatly appreciate hearing the 
words of wisdom from those who have already been down this path.   
Thank-you...



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