RE: BPCS-L Digest, Vol 2, Issue 23 -- BPCS-L

There are a couple of ways to handle the outside operations with a P.O.,
for parts that we manufacture we have a blanket P.O. for the Vendor that
we use. In this case we look at annual usage, open the P.O. for that
quantity, then we open a shop order for the parts as we make them. When
the shop order is completed, we transfer the parts to the outside op.
locations then when we receive the parts back we post the shop order to
our receiving area which back flushes the parts. We are also using a
P.O. and tying the shop order to the P.O. on page 2 we have a specific
transaction set up for outside ops., then when we receive the P.O. the
components are actually back flushed from the shop order automatically,
thereby saving us some time in data entry.
If you have a test environment you can set this up and see how it works
before you actually implement it.

Hope this helps 

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   1. Re: BPCS 6.02 Labor Ticket Purge Question
      (Doug_McLauchlan@xxxxxxxxxx)
   2. More Than a Shopping Cart: web power from LANSA (Milt Habeck)
   3. outside processing (Chick Doe)
   4. RE: outside processing (Damon, Mitch)
   5. Re: outside processing (cpepin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)


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message: 1
date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:49:24 -0800
from: Doug_McLauchlan@xxxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: BPCS 6.02 Labor Ticket Purge Question

In V6.1.01 SFC901C is called from SFC905D on the SFC Menu.

Not sure if it's the same at 6.0.02

Doug McLauchlan


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message: 2
date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:08:40 -0600
from: "Milt Habeck" <mhabeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: More Than a Shopping Cart: web power from LANSA

Dear Karen,

We can't improve much on Jose Torres' endorsement of LANSA's SMARTweb
product. Look here for more info and access to a live iSeries demo:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/BPCS_and_LANSA.htm

Jose didn't mention a newer option that adds functionality for huge
orders with high line item counts. We call it:

             "Much More Than a Shopping Cart"  (tm)

This feature enables large customers to place long orders through your
web front end (rather than sending a long FAX that you have to key into
BPCS). Here's how it works:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/notashoppingcart.htm

There's a multitude of competitive products --- but --- consider
this: well over 50% of the iSeries that run e-business are powered by
LANSA software. That's a ringing endorsement of LANSA's longstanding
commitment to e-business on iSeries. And, LANSA does more than customer
service web front ends. For example, the runaway best selling iSeries
solution for UCCnet compliance is also from LANSA:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/UCCnet-start.htm

Unbeaten Path is the LANSA Solutions Partner for BPCS users. We polish
the ROI on your existing BPCS investment:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/Tarnish_off_BPCS.pdf

Warm regards and God bless,

Milt Habeck
President
Unbeaten Path International

North American toll free:  (888) 874-8008 International voice line:
(262) 681-3151 mhabeck@xxxxxxxxxx www.unbeatenpathintl.com



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From: Jose Torres
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: Web Order Entry

Karen,

We have successfully deployed LANSA SMARTweb product in a production
environment at our subsidiary in Brazil.  It has been operational for
over 1 year. We also have a test and development environment in English
and Spanish, which we plan to roll out in the near future in the US and
Spanish Latin America. I'm not a consultant wanting to sell you
something, I'm just a user who has actually done it.  I'll be more than
happy to talk to you about some of our experiences and if you have the
time, may put you in contact with our Web administrator to give you a
Webex demo.

A number of things helped in the decision making process:

1. The fact that Lansa has been developing for BPCS for a long, long
time.
    This certainly gave me some comfort level as I know the quality code
    they in fact produce.
2. The fact that their product was an "out of the box" solution
integrated
    with BPCS.  We actually made some modifications to the code to
address
    some company-specific requirements, but most of it was ready to go
right
    after the installation.
3. The Lansa suite of products is very powerful which provided a very
    good development environment (with the exception of that
    "development dungle...")
4. They provide very good tech support.

By the way... the LANSA product not only provides for web order entry,
but also customer account status, inventory balances, automatic eMail
notifications to customers with order status, etc., etc.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Jose J. Torres - MS, PMP, CISA



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From: kedwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: Web Order Entry

Greetings,

I am investigating various web order entry products for getting our
inside sales and customers the ability to enter orders into BPCS via a
browser.
Any recommendations out there?

Also, has any one heard of or is anyone using Hi Volume Order Entry from
SSA / BPCS, Tradepaq Confirm, or a BPCS / SSA web faced order entry?
I'd very much appreciate your input!

Karen Edwards





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message: 3
date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:58:19 -0800
from: "Chick Doe" <Cdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: outside processing

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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message: 4
date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:25:59 -0500
from: "Damon, Mitch" <MDamon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: outside processing

Is this something that could be done with the vendor contract programs?
We don't do outside operations but we do use vendor contracts and
receive PO against those.

Mitch Damon, CPIM
Planning Systems Manager
Birds Eye Foods, Rochester NY
(585) 383-1070 Ext. 250

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From:   Chick Doe [SMTP:Cdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:58 PM
To:     bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        outside processing

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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message: 5
date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:25:30 -0500
from: cpepin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: outside processing

        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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