RE: Incomplete JIT backflushes

[Ruben Mirensky <rmirensky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry!

We are on 6.02, however I would be very surprised if
this changed in 6.04 or even 6.1.

Regards,

Ruben.

--- "Damon, Mitch" <MDamon@agrilinkfoods.com> wrote:
> Ruben, you didn't mention what version of BPCS you
> are on.  Does anyone know
> if this is this still a problem in 6.04?
>
> Mitch Damon, CPIM
> Planning Systems Manager
> Agrilink Foods, Rochester NY
> (716) 383-1070 ext. 250
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruben Mirensky [SMTP:rmirensky@imco99.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:31 AM
> To:   bpcs-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Incomplete JIT backflushes
>
> Make sure changes weren't made to the BOM while
> there
> were active shop orders for that item.
>
> If components were deleted from the BOM of a
> product,
> the FMA records for active shop orders for that
> product will be messed up.
>
> BPCS does give a message if you make a change to the
> Routing of a product while there are active shop
> orders. It does not, however, give a message when
> you
> change the BOM of a product for which there are
> active
> shop orders.
>
> The way to deal with this is instead of "deleting"
> items from the BOM, "discontinue" them as of today's
> date.  In that way the Seq # in the MDM and in the
> FMA
> files for existing shop orders stay in sinc and
> there
> is no problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ruben.
> --- "Bielskus, Mindaugas" <Mindaugas@oneac.com>
> wrote:
> > To all,
> >
> > I have a situation here that occurs sporadically.
> > Items are submitted to be
> > backflushed and only part of the BOM is
> backflushed.
> >  Most of the time,
> > there are no problems in backflushing these same
> > items.  The JIT process is
> > used to do the backflush.  The shop order is
> > created, the time ticket
> > entered and finally the item submitted for
> posting.
> >
> > To try to understand when and why this is
> happening,
> > I have added a short
> > program that checks whether for each FMA record
> > there is a VLA record.  The
> > results are stored in an exception file.
> >
> > The BPCS version number is 2.7, the operating
> system
> > 3.2.  The client
> > modifications to the backflush process that were
> > done pertain to the
> > assignment of the workstation ID.  In all programs
> > called by the
> > backflush/posting process, the last part of the
> WSID
> > is used instead of the
> > first.  This modification cut-down the frequency
> of
> > errors.
> >
> > Some of the users use Client Access. We tried to
> > assign a workstation name,
> > but that name is disregarded on V3.2 of CA.
> >
> > Another modification that was done to the entire
> > BPCS system was the Y2K
> > correction.  That was done probably 3 years ago.
> > Other than that, the rest
> > of the code is as SSA delivered it.
> >
> > I wonder if in subsequent releases of BPCS, there
> > were any fixes to
> > backflushing.  Any ideas on how to deal with this
> > problem, if not directly,
> > then indirectly ?
> >
> > Mindaugas Bielskus
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