RE: Purchase Price Variance Against Outside Operations

Got it!!!  There were no bugs.  My wife works in A/P (24 hours/day - ain't
life grand?) and she's been saying that the variance calculation was
'spotty'.  Sometimes it worked and other times it didn't.  It turned out to
be vendor type.

Vendor points at a vendor type
Vendor type points at G/L accounts, including a variance account. (The
vendor type we were using didn't have a variance account set up and that was
our prob)
Routing is coded with a 'C' (for cost) and contains the cost.  (I wish BPCS
allowed more than $999, which we need occasionally)
When the PO is keyed, the purchasing agent fills out the 'Y' outside
operation, shop order number and route step.
Purchasing agent returns to line entry and blanks out the cost and hits
<ENTER>.  The line cost (PECST) is then filled in with the route-step cost.
A/P enters the invoice against the item which has been received with a 'OO'
(outside op) transaction and ensures the PO# is entered on A/P entry.
Quantity and invoice cost are filled on the next screen.
Ignore the next screen
Last screen has the A/P G/L distribution and it works like a champ!!!  I
earned a kiss from the A/P person :)

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Kohlndorfer [mailto:kohlnbob@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:46 PM
To: stagis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Purchase Price Variance Against Outside Operations


Rob,

I would be very interested in your findings.
I have a someone working on V2 of BPCS that has the Outside Operation marked
as 'Y' on the Purchase order and the Price Variance still goes against the
complete item cost.

Thanks,
Bob Kohlndorfer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Stagis" <stagis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'SSA's BPCS ERP System'" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: Purchase Price Variance Against Outside Operations


Ah, hints.  Hmmmm.....  We've got all the t's dotted and i's crossed (or
something like that) so I'll go back at it and hope a previous generation of
programmers didn't change something.

Thanks, Bill.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:17 PM
To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
Subject: Re: Purchase Price Variance Against Outside Operations



Rob Stagis wrote:
> The question:  When the invoice for the outside op is keyed, BPCS
> tries to generate a dollar amount into the variance account, but the
> variance is calculated against the item's total standard cost.  Can
> BPCS generate the variance against the routing's outside op cost?

Rob,

We found the problem here (and we are 405CD); the Outside Processing Flag
on the PO Detail Detail screen was not Y, thus the shop order and operation
number were zero as well.

If that's not the case for you, I've heard a rumor here that if the
contract is no longer valid it won't price correctly either.

Bill


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