Re: BPCS' NLV product

Gary ... Just a little additional feedback.  We are in the early process of
implementing BPCS in two facilities in Mexico.  We talked with both our
facilities there, and the Mexican consultants we are working with, and were
told not to bother with the Spanish version of BPCS.  Even the people who
don't speak English very quickly figure out how to use the screens they
need to use, even if they can't read the words!  The consultants (who work
extensively with BPCS all over Mexico) said they don't know of anyone who
has ever installed the Spanish version!  They said they had looked at it,
but that it appeared that the translation was "machine generated" rather
than manually done, and that doesn't work very well!

Someone else responded with a good description of how the language supports
actually works, and the comments about only working as well as you are
diligent about using message literals instead of constants was very true.
Also, at least at the 4.0.5 version, reports are not done with message
literals even in base BPCS.  (We tried to do this ourselves when we added
new reports, but it is a real pain!)

(My personal opinion ... in my two recent trips to Mexico, I have been
amazed at how well many of the people speak English!  Even those who claim
they don't speak it can often read it well enough to get the gist of what
you're saying.  While they often apologize for their "poor" English, I keep
reassuring them it's lightyears ahead of my Spanish!  Even if you're
considering a Spain implementation rather than Mexican, you may find this
to be true there, as well.)

Lisa Abney
Development Manager
Sensient Flavors



                                                                                
          
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Can anyone explain how BPCS NLV(national language support) product works?
Especially in one environment that would require two languages(English &
Spanish). If anyone has had experience setting this up, I would like to
hear
about it.

Thanks,
Gary Johnson
International Wire
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