Re: UPS World Ship -- BPCS-L

a fast reply. i am not totally familiar with the details, but we also
interfaced bpcs (version 6.1) to UPS worldship. the way we do it is to
run a program on the as/400 a couple of times a day. this program
creates an extract file of all shipping data from the bpcs customer
orders and places this file down on our network. the UPS programmer
modified the UPS world ship software so that all we have to enter is the
bpcs order number and their software goes out to this file to retrieve
all the ship to information. we still need to key in the weights, number
of packages, etc. but the intent was to not have to key in all the text
data, (name, ship to address, method of shipment, etc) 

we're using it. like everything else it probably has some holes in it
but somehow we seem to be getting by. also, we probably only ship 30
cartons per day via UPS so we are not a big UPS shipper.

>>> macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx 01/26/05 11:13AM >>>
I am wondering if any other BPCS manufacturers got this deal from UPS,
and 
if we can trade tips on using it effectively with BPCS.

We are 405 CD on V5R1 mixed mode with some applications heavily
modified, 
some barely touched, running more than one facility.  We have the
source 
code, but not AS/Set.

UPS = United Parcel Service

For those of you not yet on UPS World Ship, it is tied into shipping.
We generate the BPCS shipping paperwork, then turn to the UPS PC 
application, identify something about the shipment, the UPS screen gets

populated with name & address of where we shipping this, and other
info, 
that then goes to UPS to track our shipment.

We supplied the data from BPCS, and 400 person at UPS got the data into

their package.

Before deployment, I had the UPS directory of fields they could use,
but 
for many of them I was "duh, what is this?" or pulling hair out trying
to 
figure out which BPCS file contained this or that datum.  So I focussed
at 
getting our people the bulk of the data, and we can worry about odd
ball 
stuff later, which is now.  I am glad I went that route because for
every 
one field that now needs follow-up there were scores I was wondering
about, 
particularly for the international shipments.  Also much easier for end

users to see what needs to be added to the flow, now that the data flow
is 
operational.

Each customer ship to has an account # with UPS.
At present I am contemplating using the EU VAT registration field for
this 
purpose (bottom of ORD100 screen) ... we have no customers in Europe at

present to my knowledge ... I think we had one in France at one time.

UPS needs weight of each package.
We use IIM.IVULP for standard quantity per carton for about 10% of our

customer items, where the customers seek standard stocking volumes
We use IIM.IWGHT to track weight of the product, but have not needed
this 
for the vast majority of our parts
and items with both fields populated is practically non-existent
so I am wondering if dividing ESL.SLNPKG (number of packages) into
ESL.PGGW 
(weight of entire shipment) to get an average per package is good
enough, 
or if there is some legal problem not being precise (typically we send
a 
bunch of full packages, and one that is less than full).
I have no idea how ESL gets its data or how accurate it is.

And then there is the notion of e-mail to bunches of people associated
with 
a customer delivery address with specifics about some shipment.  I
toying 
with notion of adding a new file, and also wondering (this is not my
area 
of expertise) if the UPS system can connect to our company e-mail ...
we 
have a group in which people can do broadcast to all co-workers & I was

thinking a group for each customer that needs this service, which might

also include staffers who want to know about shipments sent to the 
customers they are our key contact for.  We have a generic e-mail
address 
for sales inquiries, and I was thinking that a generic e-mail address
for 
copies of automated advance ship notices makes a lot of sense.

So anyway, I was wondering if others on this list already implemented
all 
this and can share some tips what worked out well for you.

-
Al Macintyre  http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac 
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