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Rob Before I became a vendor, I was a BPCS programmer for almost 20 years. It was precisely situations like yours that guided the design of our product DataThread. As we all know, it is far better to find an external solution rather than modify programs like ORD500 and PUR500. DataThread can be configured to monitor any file at the field level. If exception conditions which you have configured are detected, it can notify appropriate user by AS/400 message, email, or pager. It can also call other AS/400 programs to perform tasks. Given your scenario, you could configure DataThread to monitor the ECL. Upon record insertion, DataThread could be configured to run a quick edit to determine if cost was available. If 0 cost, it could put the order on hold and notify whomever you designate. The only custom programming would be the edit and update function. Everything else would be handled by DataThread. This would certainly put an end to numerous nightly queries and time wasting monitoring. Exception conditions would be caught immediately and corrected before it is too late to react. We have a full version of DataThread available for evaluation. It is downloaded from the web and installs in minutes. http://www.innovatum.com/dt-workflow.php Best Regards Ardi Ardi Batmanghelidj Principal -?Business Development Innovatum, Inc. ardibatman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Direct Line: 978 443 1304 Main Office: 877 277 3016 -----Original Message----- From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Stagis Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:25 AM To: 'SSA's BPCS ERP System' Subject: Required Cost on Orders BPCS 4.05CD I've been presented with an absolute requirement by my general manager. NO order entry unless an item has a standard cost. We generate a few new item numbers every day and customer service is under the gun to get orders entered, production control has to get shop orders going, etc..... I can do SFC500 with no problem. ORD500 and PUR500 are separate issues. Does anybody have any code in place or good ideas? Thanks in advance Rob Systems Analyst and Company Scapegoat -----Original Message----- From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of DeeDee Virgei Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:15 AM To: 'SSA's BPCS ERP System' Subject: FW: Newbie to BPCS Sorry about my delayed response (see below); we were having trouble w/ our email server yesterday, so I will attempt to send it again. I also apologize a head of time if you receive it more than once... Quick question for Srikanth. Do you need to make your chose in the next few days? Or do you only have a few days to map this whole project out? DeeDee Virgei Nelson Stud Welding, Inc. 7900 West Ridge Rd Elyria, OH 44036 -----Original Message----- From: DeeDee Virgei Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:37 PM To: 'SSA's BPCS ERP System' Subject: RE: Newbie to BPCS Welcome! FYI, we are thinking about applying your option 1 or 2 to consolidate apps. w/ a company we own overseas; they are currently on BRAIN (another ERP solution). 1. We would use LPAR running BPCS under one partition and BRAIN under another; cutting our AS/400 cost in half (by leasing and maintaining one, instead of two, AS/400) 2. Bringing them on board w/ BPCS under a separate Facility and Company; this would eliminate cost associated w/ BRAIN along w/ cutting the AS/400 cost in half. Also, this would give us better visibility to each others data (we already have BPCS setup in German). However, needless to say, this w/b an extremely large project... We really haven't considered option 3; granted cost may be saved on hardware, but I've been told-by SSA-that the windows version of BPCS is for Clients w/ a very small user base (I believe around 12, although this may have changed). Unix may not be a bad choice, but around 90 percent of BPCS users run off the AS/400. I believe we were on 4.0.05 before we went to 4.05CD; it wasn't that drastic of an upgrade; however, if you're going to go thru the hassle of an upgrade (apply customized code and all), you might as well upgrade to the latest stable release (or at least research this option)... Best wishes, DeeDee Virgei Nelson Stud Welding, Inc. 7900 West Ridge Rd Elyria, OH 44036 -----Original Message----- From: srikanth seshadri [mailto:srikanth_seshadri@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:15 AM To: BPCS-List Subject: Newbie to BPCS Dear All, Greetings. I am basically newbie to BPCS and AS/400 environment. I need to find out a place where I can understand the architecture of BPCS on AS/400. Would you be able to suggest a best web site or a book that is good for a starter like me. I also have a requirement given by my manager where I need to plan for system consolidation in the next few days. We have 3 different BPCS environment with versions 3.7, 4.0.0.5 and 4.5CD running on AS/400 platform at 3 different locations. I have been asked to look into the following consolidation options: 1. Consolidate 3 BPCS instances running in 3 boxes into one single box running AS/400 but still BPCS running as 3 separate versions. 2. Consolidate 3 different versions of BPCS instances in to 1 single version BPCS instance based on the highest versions available in the location. 3. Migrate all 3 instances from AS/400 to Unix/Windows platforms. I would appreciate if you can share with me on your professional expertise on the above options in terms of costs vs benefits vs risks. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Srikanth __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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