Re: outside processing -- BPCS-L

        We also us 6.1. Outside operations are very time consuming to do. 
The person we have doing them would save them up and enter them a couple 
times a week. As you can imagine we would see some erroneous inventory 
levels on these items.  All of our steps for an outside operation are done 
at one time. The Shop order, the purchase, the actual processing of the 
operation, and the entering of the invoice. In order to simplify the 
process, I utilized a screen scraping tool and significantly cut down on 
the amount of time it took to do this process. 
        I created a single desktop form  with this tool that the user puts 
all of the relevant information into. Once the user presses the activation 
key it takes all of the data from the form and creates the shop order, the 
purchase order, links the two together, does the actual receipt processing 
and enters the payable. As it goes through its process it stores the shop 
order number, the PO, and also gets the event number from the journal 
entry it created. It brings all of the information for the transactions 
that have just been done and deposits them onto the original form once it 
comes back. The end result of this is that we have individual transactions 
for all of our outside ops. What would once take many hours has now been 
cut down to much less than an hour.

If you or anyone else want anymore information feel free to contact me off 
the list. I would be happy to share my experiences on how I use this tool. 
(it's actually something we use for data collection, I just extended its 
reach)

Chris Pepin
Manufacturing Business Analyst
Robbins Inc. 





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version 6.1

we have a variety of parts that we need to send outside to a vendor to
perform certain operations that we cannot perform. in many cases we are
sending a batch of parts out nearly every day to have the same operation
performed (ie plating). our current practice is to create a distinct
outside processing po each time we send parts out. thus we can end up
with many separate po's that all reference the same work order and
operation. 

is it possible to set up some form of blanket PO (perhaps for a yearly
qty) for an outside operation? how would you update this PO to specify
the various shop orders that you cut during the year? and if you were
able to do this, would the shop orders ever close because the po was not
fully closed?

how do others handle repeated OP operations? must you make a new PO
each time?

chick doe
prime measurement products
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