RE: MRP and shop vs. purchase orders -- BPCS-L

*grin* My first indication of the problem was the shop-floor guy asking
where the bill and routing were on his shop packet.  My second was the
general manager impugning the integrity of my system.........

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of abshaffer
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:44 PM
To: bpcs-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: MRP and shop vs. purchase orders


BPCS gives you the flexibility manufacture and purchase the same item
without screwing up the requirements. This is good.
It is not difficult to modify the purchase order and shop order release
program to give you a warning.

If you do not want to modify, then create an exception report to
identify the mistake when it happens.

However, with your error, since the item is purchased, when a Shop Order
was released, it would not have a BOM and Routing. This should have been
your first indication that there is a problem.


Art Shaffer
Arthur B. Shaffer, CPIM
ABShaffer@yahoo.com
Phone - 908-789-3237�� Fax - 208-978-7735


-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com] On
Behalf Of Rob Stagis
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:29 PM
To: bpcs-l@midrange.com
Subject: MRP and shop vs. purchase orders

This question stems from a recent problem.  We're on 4.05CD.

Recently, an item was entered on a customer order.  It was coded as a
purchased item, but a shop order was keyed by mistake.  The item then
disappeared from our home-grown MRP system's reports, since the demand
had
been met.

Is there a place, in BPCS, where I can preclude placing the 'wrong' type
of
order?  In other words, if it's coded as a purchased item, will the
system
tell me and not allow (or at least flag as an error) a shop order?

Thanks - Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Al Mac
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:33 PM
To: bpcs-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Un Pick


Thanks
Thanks to your information the problem has been solved for us.

>This is also the manual way you do it 405CD.
>
>Art Shaffer
>Arthur B. Shaffer, CPIM
>ABShaffer@yahoo.com
>Phone - 908-789-3237   Fax - 208-978-7735
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>On Behalf Of Sally - Small Blue
>
>Al,
>
>It has been a long time since I worked with version 405CD but I don't
>think there are too many differences between picking at 6.0.02.
>
>At 6.0.02 you can un-pick orders by running Pick-Confirm with the line
>qtys set to 0 and the 'Drop' flag (if applicable) set to N.  You can do
this
>by customer and it will require manual intervention to delete the
>allocations but this will leave all the files in order.
>
>Hope this is of some help.
>
>Sally Bosman
>
>Small Blue Ltd
>Tel:  +44 (0) 1737 789777
>Fax: +44 (0) 1737 789355
>www.smallblue.co.uk
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Al Mac" <macwheel99@sigecom.net>
>
> > Looking for 405 CD suggestions
> >
> > Something went haywire Friday ... I not know if human error, PC melt
>down, BPCS bug, whatever
> > We now have all customer order lines on one customer picked for
>shipping,
> > and we want to un pick them, because we are make-to-order, and our
> > customers often provide adjustments to quantities due when, so
>updating
> > existing orders is a daily need.  Friday's and Monday's Shipping and
> > Billing went fine.  We just have this extra stuff picked.
> >
> > It has been a while since I messed with this area, so I hit what I
>thought
> > were the usual suspects, including reading the documentation (if in
>doubt, read the manuals) such as SSARUN04
> >
> > SYS993 has cleared ORD550 for the work station that does shipping
for
>that
> > customer, and I did a dump of the data areas to see if any other
>player might have a corrupted session ... Nope
> >
> > After digging through the documentation, I tried ORD550 for that
>customer
> > with F21, which told me it was file ESR that got cleared based on
the
>work station where I tried that, so I trotted out to the shipping
office,
>fired up their PC and did ORD550 with F21 there ... well ORD500 still
says
>those customer orders are in Picked status.
> >
> > I listed ESR file members ... *FIRST has lots of stuff, but all the
>work station members are 8192 bytes which I assume is the standard
floor
>... I was hoping to find a candidate work station for ORD550 there with
F21.
> >
> > For one of the orders, without actually changing anything, I tried
>ORD500
> > F13 override (let me in) F20 header F14 status adjustments, but none
>of the
> > offered options seemed to be what I needed to take the order out of
>Picked status
> >
> > I am assuming there is some simple step to unpick customer orders
and
>it is staring me in the face but I am not seeing it.
> >
> > Is this a simple field like in ECL or ECH to tweak with DFU, then
run
>one of the reorg options on SYS/23?  I suspect multiple files need to
be
>in sync.  I just don't know which ones.
> >
> >
> > Al Macintyre
>.

Al Macintyre
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