RE: BPCS 405CD New Company -- BPCS-L

Hi

Here is how v6 works. To keep the financial ledger completely separate, you
need a new company. Let's make clear the difference between a company and a
facility. Companies in BPCS make financial data separate, while facilities
make mrp planning separate.

Both are different. So much different, that a warehouse can belong to a
company, say company A, while at the same time belonging to a different
facility, say facility 2. You can group the mrp planning of a warehouse in a
facility, while posting it's financial transactions in a different ledger
(different company).

That being said, the item master is global, therefore is it shared by all
companies and facilities. Local item planning parameters variations are
declared in the facility planning data file, by item and facility. The BOM's
are global, (blank facility), or they can also be facility specific. The
customer master and the vendor master are both company specific. This means
if a customer or vendor does business with more than one of your BPCS
companies, you will have to copy or create records for each company. The
shortfall is same customer or vendor will have as many master records as the
number of companies. You may use the logical parent customer functinality to
amalgamate sales statistics of underlying child customer residing in
different companies.

You might not need to have more than one facility, all depends on the
geographical layout of your plants. If everything is in the same site, you
may combine all mrp planning under same facility, while still having
numerous companies for distinct ledger reporting. The opposite is also true.

Again, this is v6. I think the company and facility functinalities are the
same in v4.

> Daniel Warthold
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alister Wm Macintyre [mailto:macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 20:20
To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] BPCS 405CD New Company



We are also 405 CD.

Is it essential that you do this via a new BPCS company.
Won't BPCS facilities do the job for you?

We have factories in more than one city, and we also have some specialized 
divisions.
Thanks to the use of facilities, there is one set of master data like Item 
Master, customers, vendors, accounting data controls
While we have inventory and orders processing by facility, with separate 
engineering versions (BOM & Routings) with costs of each, and also the A/R 
and A/P have data by facility.

We have items that get made in one facility, then moved to another, based 
on mix of work load, and deals with customers to do things differently for 
them to save them money.  This means that business needs to be moved pretty 
rapidly from one facility to another.  BPCS comes with software to do this 
manually, but we had some software developed by our tech support people to 
help expedite the moves.

Basically, I have a work file that I added some time ago for another set of 
purposes.
ECIF file ... a master index of end customer item made in what facility 
with some data related to that combination ... this is updated from current 
orders and shipping history.
Using DFU I can then add item #s for some customer that needs to be done in 
another facility, and add a logical to get at all those item#s for customer 
#s of current interest, then there is software to copy current records 
across facilities based on that logical's connections

General Ledger shares same chart of accounts, in which we have a different 
profit center prefix for each facility.


>Hi Everyone, I'm new to the list (Used to be active many months ago) and
>hopefully some of you are still running BPCS 405CD or at least remember
>some things about it!
>
>I'm looking for some general information and advice about starting a new
>company in our BPCS405CD environment.
>
>We want to share some of the file data, but keep the financial
>statements completely seperate without having to recreate the GL Master
>and Folios, etc...
>Specifically, we'd want to share the following files at least:
>
>Item Master
>Customer Master
>Vendor Master
>BOM & ROUTER files (MBM & FRT)
>
>The A/R and A/P will be "clear" when we start. We don't do payroll in
>BPCS.
>
>Any and all responses are welcome!
>
>Thank You,
>
>Paul

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