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The number of "out-of-stocks" is a strange metric. If you can figure out WHAT meaning the "out-of-stocks" has for them, you can likely find more standard measures that will have the same meaning. Typical metrics might include late supplier deliveries, demand in excess of forecast, excessive scrap, and actual production rate below standard rate, or production not matching the schedule. The best long term solution is to get them educated in how to plan using the BPCS tools/measures. I would expect that lots of business processes adjusted to work well with BPCS, there is no real reason why planning shouldn't as well. And frankly, an "out-of-stock" indicates a planning error. If they get a lot of them, the existing process isn't working all that well. Getting some of them APICS trained may also be useful. No magic bullet, sorry! >>> Zzbpcs@aol.com 10/25/02 07:19AM >>> In a message dated 10/25/2002 8:44:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, HunterT@mohawkpaper.com writes: > We have been on BPCS 6.0.04 since 1/1/01 and our Production Planners still > have some screens from a homegrown legacy system. To create inventory > balances they review sales history and they look at the number of times we > were out of stock. I am looking to move them out of the legacy system and I > need help with the number of times we were out of stock. > Has anyone ever > tried to get this type of information from BPCS before? ---------- I think you need to move them out of the legacy system AND out of the legacy mind-set. The number of times an item went out of stock IN THE PAST is a poor indicator of how many should we have on hand. It may be a "report card" of how bad we did both in predicting demand &/or in meeting expected demand. But the key to planning is planning AHEAD....... but maybe I'm missing something........ Peace, Jim Barry _______________________________________________ This is the SSA's BPCS ERP System (BPCS-L) mailing list To post a message email: BPCS-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/bpcs-l or email: BPCS-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l. THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, downloading, storing or forwarding of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately via email and delete the message from your computer files and/or data base. Thank you.
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