Dead Facility "Sales" -- BPCS-L

I'm looking for suggestions where else to look. We closed a manufacturingfacility a few months ago, and are no longer shipping from it, but theGeneral Ledger is still getting sales and cost of sales data from it. Weare 405 CD.

Searching Invoice files (SH SIL) for activity after the facility closed, Ifound a small number of billing adjustments that I am assuming were eitherkeying errors or RETURNs where the staff did not realize the facility nowdoing the repairs ought to get the profit center credit, but most of what Ihave found so far is coming in daily GL Journal batches of "shipments frominventory" where it looks like transaction code "B" with some $ to theclosed facility and some to the open ones. There are no corresponding "B"transactions in inventory history for the closed facility. The source codeon the transactions to the dead facility is ORE/M which i notice is also inORD300 for customer orders, but there are no open customer orders for thedead facility, and these General Ledger transactions keep coming.

I reverse engineered GLW to see where transactions could be coming from andfound a couple thousand hits where some BPCS program touches some GJWlogical. I need to shrink the places to look. We do not have AS/Set sodata mining in ORD500 or ORD590 is not an option.

I have requested permission to purge the system of closed order recordsassociated with the dead facility. All the ECH records for that facilityare 'CZ' ended but when the facility went away, there were a ton ofuncompleted customer orders. All customers using that facility as adefault have been deleted. Active customers that used to have the deadfacility as a default, have had their defaults changed to the facility nowdoing the work, but of course there are all kinds of history files outthere, such as SSH SSD containing data on the dead facility.

My suspicion is that when shipping selects everything on some customer toship from an open facility, they are accessing some records on the deadfacility. I also ran an MRP regen on the dead facility and got approx 75replanned, so there's something out there feeding into it that I have notyet tracked down, that needs closing. We are using the dead facility tostore obsolete inventory, so there is a cost there associated with thatinventory's history, but I thought nothing went into G/L until theinventory moved in or out.


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