RE: stockroom locations

Since you can have more than one item in a location how about assigning an item 
number to the bin which, unless removed, will always hold that location.

Mitch Damon, CPIM
Planning Systems Manager
Agrilink Foods, Rochester NY
(585) 383-1070

-----Original Message-----
From:   Chick Doe [SMTP:Cdoe@barton-instruments.com]
Sent:   Friday, January 17, 2003 9:43 PM
To:     bpcs-l@midrange.com
Subject:        stockroom locations

version 6.1.02

we use random stockroom locations. when a new part has to be put away we make a 
bin for it, put it on a shelf (location), and put the parts in it. we make a 
bpcs transaction to record where we put the parts.  suppose some time goes by 
and we use up those parts. the container is still on the shelf, yet bpcs says 
we have none. then we run month end and since we have zero parts at that 
location bpcs deletes the ILI record. not the computer does know where we have 
the empty container. 

some time later we get some more of the parts. if we are lucky, the stockroom 
person 'remembers' where the container is and transacts them into the same 
container. but if somebody else handles the receipt, we may end up with a new 
container on a different shelf. 

when i try to perform a location audit to make sure that all the containers 
were in bpcs, i got inundated with locations that bpcs did not know of. 
(luckily most of these containers were empty). 

two questions: 
1. is there a way to have bpcs 'remember' a location on the ILI when the qty at 
that location goes to zero?
2. should we pull the container and remove it from the shelf when it is empty, 
and then go through the effort of reestablishing the container in whatever 
location when we get more parts?
 
any help or comments is appreciated.

chick doe
barton instrument systems


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