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  3. March 2006

Bill of Lading Ship to Address

In this 405 CD tale of woe, where am I mistaken?
In theory customer orders (ECH) should have bill-to from customer master (RCM ACR100) and ship-to address (EST ORD100) which defaults to bill-to if no ship-to supplied. Humans can key in ship-to # (and use F4 prompt to see choices) or do some over-ride. This data is copied to shipping documents (ESH ESL) and invoicing (SIH) with communication linkage (BBL), without need for any human override, but in case some exception needed, the ship-to # of EST can be used to get a substitute. It should never be neccessary for anyone to have to key in a ship to address more than once, because they can supply it to the ship to master (EST) via ORD100, then access the ship-to # where needed.
I am being told this is not true for Bill of Lading (ORD595) which, if no intervention, prints bill-to instead of ship-to address. Thus shipping personnel must key in ship-to address every time, in which they not have option of giving the ship-to # (of EST). 

Is this how BPCS supposed to work?
We used an outside consulting firm in our 405 CD implementation years ago, whose programmers did not consistently use modification standards. Thus PDM-54 is not fool proof and I can't always tell where something is vanilla or they modified.
We did not get AS/Set. Tracing innards of AS/Set generated ORD programs is impractical, but fortunately lots of 405 CD is in RPG DDS CL etc. written by some humans. 

Our ORD595 RPG and DDS Bill of Lading get address info from ESH file
* Shipper (us)
* Carrier (truck line)
* Consignee (bill to)
* Intermediate Consignee (ship to except this defaults to bill to)
I can't trace how come latter defaults wrong

Our ORD596 Pack List is correct.
Its address info comes from ECH but I can't back trace into AS/Set land to see if some over-ride is being used or it really is the customer order 

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Al Macintyre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AlMac
BPCS/400 Computer Janitor ... see
http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/11/08/bpcsDocSources.html

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