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  3. July 2006

Re: BPCS Method Codes

This may be sensitive to BPCS version.
If you look in BPCS engineering ... BOM and Routings, there is provision for different methods. 

We use Method Codes primarily for repairs, and engineering changes.
Suppose you have an item of Revision-E and you want to convert the part to Revision-F, well that's method EF because it already has some of the needed components, the process to make the same end item from scratch is a different method than to convert it from an earlier revision. 

BPCS Type is a different animal from BPCS Method.
Where you can use any Method coding you please, many Types have special significance within BPCS functionality. If you try to violate the BPCS Type rules, you are in for a world of hurt.
Also do not confuse Item Types with Cost Types and other BPCS structures that use the word Type with other meanings
it is one thing to assign new types not preset what comes out of BPCS box, such as we use Type-9 for parts in need of repair, and we store them in a warehouse ending in digit 9 meaning cannot use this stuff in MRP until QC has resolved whatever the problem is. 

Type 1 is end items for customers
Type 2 is sub-assemblies in manufacturing
Type 7 is raw materials we purchase
Type 0 is for phantoms (not real items)
Type 9 (we invented) for items in need of QC disposition or repairs
Type 8 (we invented) to use in place of type-0 for particular kinds of descriptions 

e.g. Type-8 class EC is link to engineering change details
We can look in BOM, see history of ECs, look up the whole story on latest

We also invented types to keep track of Tooling
We can have in the Engineering, links to what Tooling to use, but it is not something that gets used up in the manufacturing. 


We use a number of different method codes, the MF method code being the
one that is used in manufacturing.

We are implementing a new costing system (interfacing to BPCS) which will
need to use the MF method code, but as we have the method code set up as
type 0 (manufacturing only) the system cannot access the method code.
I think we need to change type to number 2 for manufacturing and costing.
But are there any implications of doing this that we need to think about ?

Thanks for any help.
Yvonne

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