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

Thanks for the help, everybody.  In this case, everything was coded
correctly ("P" for purchased, with a 'PURCHASED' literal on the report, no
bill, no routing...all dots lined up nicely) but the shop order was
generated by mistake - at which point it disappeared from all the expedite
reports.  And yeah - a modification to one of the screen programs will
preclude (or at least reduce) the errors.

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:bpcs-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of DeeDee Virgei
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:50 PM
To: 'bpcs-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: MRP and shop vs. purchase orders


Hi Rob,

I use the "Item Type" field on the Item Master (IIM) and Facility Master
(CIC)  to separate purchased items from manufacturing items for many
in-house programs.  We run a report (simple query) nightly for our Engineers
listing all parts w/ manufactured item types missing bill of materials (MBM)
and/or routings (FRT) -- visa versa for purchased items...  In most cases,
our manufactured parts should have a bill of material and routing and our
purchased parts shouldn't have either.  Since your MRP is home-grown, you
may not populate the MBM or FRT unless you have BPCS Cost module...  Good
luck.

DeeDee Virgei
Nelson Stud Welding, Inc.
7900 West Ridge Rd
Elyria, OH 44036

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Rob Stagis [mailto:stagis@fansteelvrwesson.com]
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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