RE: Question on International Sales -- BPCS-L

Not too long ago we had a similar situation. We are BPCS 6.04; heavily modified 
on the supply chain side.

Our Mexican customers wanted to be shipped from a USA  warehouse. We sell the 
merchandise to our subsidiary in Mexico (us) and they sell it to the customer.

In order to reflect the situation in BPCS, I set up the customer in another 
company (company 20, incidentally we do not do accounting for that company so 
we don't do any financials). This customer is the final customer and the final 
sale. All of the normal inventory, credit check, commissions, sales history, 
etc are impacted.

I set up the subsidiary in our regular company (company 10) and we sold the 
goods at cost +15%. Sales would be recorded to our subsidiary since he has a 
customer set up for him. We automated this process such that when the final 
sale was pick confirmed, a shadow order would be generated at cost +15%.

Bottom line is that it was a good amount of customization but we reflected the 
business requirements using this method and minimized the manual labor.


-----Original Message-----
From: pheeren@thetford.nl [mailto:pheeren@thetford.nl]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:17 AM
To: bpcs-l@midrange.com
Cc: bpcs-l@midrange.com; bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Question on International Sales



Phil,

We use ECM in combination with some tailor made programs to solve a kind of
similar situation.

May be this may help in your sitiuation:
- Enter the US order (now your credit check is in place)
- Use ECM outbound order adapter to get the US order out of BPCS
- Use ECM to trigger a tailor made program to convert the US order into the
Canadian order
- Use ECM inbound order adapter to get the canadian order into the system

All the ECM steps can run automatically. You still have to set up your
customer twice.

KInd regards,

Peter Heeren
Thetford BV





                    Phil.Catlin@For
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International Sales
                    drange.com


                    06-09-2002
                    14:45
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                    to bpcs-l






All..

We currently have an implementation issue described as follows:

US based customers want to receive shipments from one of our Canadian based
warehouses.

Today, we enter an order against our Canadian subsidiary for the customer,
then bill our intercompany US  account for the shipment.  The invoice is
faxed from Canadian customer service to US customer service, then the order
is re-entered in the US as a miscellaneous bill so that the customer gets a
US $ invoice.

(Both companies are setup in the same instance of BPCS, on the same
processor...)

This causes a couple of problems..  1)  No credit check against the US
credit limits for the customer until after shipment,   2) The customer has
to be setup twice  3) The order has to be entered twice.

This seems to me to be a bad process!
I was wondering what others on the list do that are in a similar situation.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Phil Catlin
Formica Corporation
v) 513-786-3198
f) 513-786-3487

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