Re: BPCS Costing Informaion -- BPCS-L

We are 405 CD

>  I can also recommend a couple of excelent consultants
>  to help you if you are interested.

Several 3rd party outfits have specialists in BPCS Costing,
but you need to have your BOM & Routings done right for the Cost Rollups to
give you good results, so you may need professional help in more than the
Costing module.  There are also some very important SYS800 decisions to make.

--- "Zaksheske, Paul"  wrote:
>  > I'm starting to evaluate the process of doing Cost
>  > Rollups and various other costing procedures.

A constructive question to ask on this forum might be what cost options
people run on a regular basis - daily / weekly / monthly.
Another might be which BPCS cost programs are believed to be flawed in which
versions.
Another might be what modifications people think are a good idea &
proportionally how much of the original SSA code we have tinkered with ... in
our case I would estimate a tiny fraction of 1% ... we tend to add
information that SSA did not supply, as opposed to changing the rules SSA has
setup.

We have people doing CST300 every day.
We have a few people doing a lot of CST100.

In fact, of all our ITH transactions, numerically the most are cost changes.

We have a query to list "hidden" costs.

We run CST900 a couple of nites a week, with a cluster of associated reports
that show the items whose costs were changed by the purge, charting the
variances before & after.

We do CST600 on standard costs every nite for all facilities.
Some people do CST600 on individual items after minor updates.

We have added several queries & RPG reports to chart our cost information
every which way.

>  > I'm looking for any information or documentation on
>  > this process.

BPCS_L Archives have an incredible volume of posts on the subject.
http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l/index.htm

Use search engine to look for discussion of such topics as
Cost Rollup
Cost Averaging
CST600
for starters then the content of discussions will lead you to other topics
you want to search

There are alos a lot of posts relating to things people can do wrong to mess
up their costs.
Recently I have been finding items with
negative costs (which I am able to fix)
negative requirements (allocation reorg fixes this)
buckets not add up (on my to do list to fix)

>  > I've tried
>  > going to the dssolutionsinc.com
>  > and www.unbeatenpathintl.com
>  > sites but the information is very limited.

The info about their manuals that is on their web sites is rather limited
because they want you to buy the manuals.  The amount of relevant information
in the manuals is simply incredible, encyclopaedic, and UPI's comes with a
guarantee.  If it not help you, you not have to pay their invoice.  The only
way it not help anyone is if you buy it & stick it on a sheff & no one read
it.

I have suggested to these sites that they take a page or two out of each
manual & post it on the web site to illustrate the quality of content, then
remind web audience how many pages like this in the total manual.

>  > We also do not have the
>  > BPCS Product Documentation binder on Cost
>  > Management.

Are you absolutely positively sure that you do not have the equivalent?

If your BPCS was installed in a standard manner, it should have come with
on-line documentation for all applications.
Command Line WRKOBJ BPCSDOC
will tell you which library the on-line documentaition is in
which a programmer will then know how to access via PDM

End Users can access it via the DOC menu if your security has been setup in a
manner that is user-friendly to the accessibility of the on-line
documentation.

Most BPCS manufacturers do in fact have this documentation
but do not know that they have it.

>  > Paul Zaksheske
>  >
>  > American Meter Company

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
BPCS 405 CD Manager / Programmer @ Global Wire Technologies Incorporated
http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com = new name same quality wire
engineering company: fax # 812-424-6838