RE: Order changes -- BPCS-L

Have you considered using price quotes for this customer instead of changing 
the actual order?
Advantages to using price quotes include:
Financially - The customer's sums (Open orders, Obligo) are not updated while 
you make changes to the quote
Logistically - Inventory is not allocated to the order while it is in price 
quote status.
Price quotes can be copied and modified until it's ready to everyone's 
satisfaction.
You can track each change by printing the quote after each change and saving 
the copy.
When the quote is ready and matches the final desired order information, it can 
be copied as an actual order and update the relevant information in customer 
fields.
Once a quote is printed it can easily be erased from the tables.
This solution may not solve your question, but think of the advantages...
-----Original Message-----
From: THarteau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:THarteau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 2:53 PM
To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
Subject: Order changes



Hi,
      I am on V6.02. We have a program that prints any new orders taken out
the previous day and also any changes made to existing orders. It is a
batch program that compares entry date and last maintained date to a record
in a work file. If it is different, there has been a change (in item
number, quantity, price, salesperson or customer). The programs were
written when we first got BPCS many, many years ago. It was maintained to
keep working, but has some serious holes.  I need to rewrite it without the
holes.  Some of the problems are: the work file is keyed by order #, line #
(the item number can and does change), but we have had users resequence the
order, We have had lines deleted, and L01 was used, so it was never
reduced, and several unexplained things where it just did not update
correctly.
      Does anyone have any ideas on how to track the changes? I'm not
looking for any product to purchase, it is home grown and needs to stay
that way. I am just starting to look at different ways to do it, and
thought I would see if anyone else is already doing something similar.

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Terri Harteau
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"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
- Dr. Who
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