Re: CIM - Bar Code implementation

Jose

If you are on OSG, you might use the new "I am interested in topic X" feature 
to get at all recent traffic by other customers needing help with the CIM 
module, and whatever knowlege base tips they have specific to CIM.  This 
might be quite illuminating.  I have experimented a bit with this in which on 
one visit to OSG "I am interested in various shop floor topics" and on 
another visit "I am interested in costing" or some other topic, and the 
filters work really good.  I wish SSA had offered this years ago.

We are on BPCS 405 CD mixed mode & have NOT implemented BPCS bar coding but 
were interested - we asked our SSA rep what worked with BPCS since it is 
apparent that there is a LOT of bar code stuff out there quite alien to BPCS. 
 This led to us getting some literature from http://www.rtdcs.com/

They claim that implementing their stuff leads to a return on the investment 
in 18 months, if I remember correctly.  We use basically JIT620 (labor 
tickets updating inventory) INV500 INV510 PUR550 ORD570 our own custom labor 
tickets off of shop order release, and of course the physical inventory stuff.

Actually my interest in bar coding & scanning is a bit non-standard to how 
the stuff is currently marketed.  We use clerks to key in labor tickets & I 
was wondering if a batch of labor tickets could be "scanned", with the clerk 
"correcting" any misreads due to poor handwriting, but I am told basically 
that is NOT how the system is structured.  Bar Code readers would be on the 
shop floor, with each employee issued a badge with bar code identification & 
they report when they start on some job & when they finish, almost as if we 
would not be doing JIT620 any more.

I noticed that each page of the catalog of AS/400 products from System 3X 
warehouse has a unique bar code in the corner, obviously intending to work 
with some scanner ... this page is this layout ... I am thinking, we have a 
TON of customers who send us their order requirements & order changes by fax 
or e-mail in which they use an unchanging standard format, in which it should 
be practical to scan that into our computer system with a code identifying 
which format, then run it through a converter program that ends up using it 
much like EDI.

We have not done that either yet.  Just some ideas I have.

>  From:    jose_villa@usa.net (Jose Villarreal)
>  
>  Hi !
>  
>  We are using BPCS 6.0.04
>  We are thinking of implementing the CIMpath program in order to input shop
>  floor labor tickets, inventory transactions and purchase orders, through 
bar
>  code scanners, so as to optimize our warehouse in our plant here in
>  Argentina.
>  We are now using basically SFC650 (labor tickets input), PUR550, QMS550,
>  PUR650 and INV500.
>  Has anyone done this? If so, what did you come up with? Is it easy to
>  implement? What were the results like? Any idea?
>  
>  Thank you so much.
>  
>  Jose Villarreal.

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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