RE: Brand / Profit Center -- BPCS-L

We are on BPCS 405 CD modified in places.

We recently went to multiple customer #s for some customers due to the merger of another factory that initially wants invoicing on THEIR familiar invoices ... ultimately I think it will make sense to use a standard form, in which facility of shipment dictates print what on the invoice. Right now ranges of customer #s used in billing for which facility invoices.

This is big problem for CASH since one customer payment can be for more than one customer #.

BPCS 405 CD permits separate customer orders by profit center. First character of profit center, facility, warehouse, work center, etc. is consistent with what facility, so simple for us to keep straight what's what.

You could have your two brands, using different customer orders on the same customers, and it should go to the correct GL accounts. (I am not an expert on the accounting side.) - Al Macintyre BPCS/400 Computer Janitor at http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com/ Find BPCS Documentation Suppliers http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/11/08/bpcsDocSources.html

We are on BPCS 6.0.04 mixed mode April cum heavily Intermaticized (modified).

We struggled with the same concept - mixed sales of product (that we needed separated) to a single customer. Everything worked great because of the different item class. AR didn't work out.

In our case we had a full owned subsidiary and we did an analysis of all invoices that had a mixed bag for a period of time (3 months in our cst) and came up with an average based upon invoice total (like 1% of sales). We manually charged back the company for the average (the bunch of A/R stuff not associated with a particular item) on a monthly basis to handle.

Would boil down to a manual feed to your P&L.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Jedrzejewicz @ San Pedro

Folks - we are on BPCS 4.0.03

Currently my company has two brands, and the two brands are treated as
separate lines of business.  They are represented in the GL as separate
profit centers.  In the Item Master the ITEM CLASS field differentiates
the two brands.  We sell both brands to roughly 60% of our customers;
for each of those customers we actually have TWO customer numbers, with
different customer types and profit centers.

We would like to have a single customer number for each entity to which
we sell.  However, we still want to be able to generate a P/L and
Balance Sheet for each brand.  The expense side is straight-forward; it
is already coded manually as the invoices are paid.  Sales, Inventory
and CoGs are also painless.  But the AR and Cash piece is somewhat
troublesome; some invoices will contain both classes, and there is a
bunch of A/R stuff not associated with specific items.

Any thoughts you might have would be appreciated.

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