Re: AP Due Dates, 4.05CD -- BPCS-L

There is a bug in BPCS in which the due dates go haywire every February.

I been expecting my accounting department to notice it and ask me about it any day now. Unless they remember this from last year, and the year before, and the year before. (Employee turnover of duties and 11 months of not experiencing a phenomena can lead to memory loss.)

I think of it like an overlooked Y2K glitch that not enough people complained about for SSA to fix while we were still on OSG, and not last long enough for the company to want to bother spending good money to try to get it fixed.

When we were still on OSG, we did get a bunch of BMRs to fix lots of stuff, and they did fix lots of stuff, but not all of the date problems. We have since done some modifications to fix some of the bugs that SSA would have fixed had they been able to replicate them and comprehend that they are bugs ... several times when reporting a bug to SSA I would be told that is how BPCS is supposed to work, like some programs do not round properly, and give erroneous mathematical results.

Hello All,
In the past few days the Due Date on invoices which is automatically
calcuated from the vendor terms is incorrect. For some reason the calcuation
is taking the Invoice Date, rolling to the first day of the next month, then
adding the Vendor Terms. Here are some examples:

Vendor Terms: Net 10    Invoice Date: 2/19/03   Due Date:3/10/03 (should be
3/1/03)
Vendor Terms: Net 30    Invoice Date: 2/19/03   Due Date:3/30/03 (should be
3/21/03)
Vendor Terms: Net 30    Invoice Date: 2/27/03   Due Date:3/10/03 (should be
3/29/03)

Has anyone encountered this before? Will it take a BMR to fix this?(I hope
not, we don't have OGS) If so why is this happening now? CAny feedback would
be most helpful.

Thanks,

Larry Orrel

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