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Shop calendar

It is quite possible that co-workers have forgotten to maintain it.  We
have in our fiscal year and physical inventory check lists a reminder to
check that this is planned far enough out into the future.  In the absence
of some corporate reminder like that, every day becomes a BPCS production
day.

There is a way to say here is the Sunday of first month of the year, then
have it propagate that for a whole year worth of Sundays.  Warning - we
have had people come in on a weekend and try to catch up on their work
backlog, and they discover that BPCS will not let them do some stuff,
because the day they working is not a production day, and the error
messages not clear what is going on.

You can have global calendar for entire company, or exceptions like perhaps
physical inventory will be done a different month in different facilities,
and we have had shutdown for holidays in which different plants worked
different schedules.  BPCS supports all of that.

There is more than one calendar in BPCS - check SFC shop calendar, DRP
shipping calendar, GLD fiscal calendar.  All need to be kept current, by
the appropriate staff.

Documentation

Check the BPCS_L archives on documentation.  http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l
You can find a lot of useful info by searching on a program name or module
(like MRP) or for a subject (like Lead Times), to see what people have said
about that in years gone by.
There was a recent thread about a FILE list shared off-list.
There are several places that sell BPCS manuals.
There are BPCS tips newsletters.

This topic has come up so many times, that I tentatively planning to put my
standard answers on my new weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/

In all probability you DO have BPCS documentation, but it is normally
stored such that no normal human being can find it.
If you have command line authority, check for what library contains the
object BPCSDOC.
At 405 CD this is in a PDM file that we can access via SEU.
It is not great for easy navigation, but there is tons of information in there.
The first document in the collection that you want to look at is SSALOG00
which explains the logic of BPCS naming conventions and structure for all
kinds of things.

If you do not have command line authority, ask someone who has BPCS SYS
security authorization to show you the menu DOC and how to work it, and
perhaps ask for enough security so that you may access the standard BPCS
documents.

>I'm new to BPCS and AS/Set (but experienced in AS/400 and RPG).
>
>My first assignment is to change the MRP program that tells production
>when to build products.
>
>Currently the program counts weekends as production days and then moves
>anything scheduled for the weekend to Friday.
>
>I need the system to only count weekdays as production days.
>
>Is there a setup table to change the working days or do I need to do a
>program modification?
>
>We have BPCS 6.0.0.4
>
>P.S. Any links to general BPCS help would be appreciated. (We don't have
>any documentation).
>
>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
>at http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l.

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