Whatever field you populate to make the item inactive or non-usable, make
sure you know where that value can be propagated by item, facility,
engineering, orders, etc. so that when you advance it into active status,
you get all the places that value has cascaded into.
In earlier versions of BPCS you could make an item have an item type that
is invalid for orders, such as a phantom, then when all the other work has
been done getting the item ready for use, switch it to a valid item type.
Depending on the reports people are using to manage orders, it is smart to
have a notification
"Everyone ... such & such an item is now approved for normal processing ...
because"
There's also effectivity dates and lead times. You can deliberately make
these invalid on contemporary dates. If the lead time is 30 days, and you
enter effectivity date of TODAY, then MRP will say the item is not needed,
because MRP does not plan something that is past due on arrival. If it
will be a while before it is ready for use, make the effectivity date 10
years ago, so it will not show up on any MRP requirements, then when ready
to make the part active, advance the effectivity date to contemporary times.
Take a look at the coding that triggers an item in MRP to be included as
needed, someone mentioned order policy code ... Master Scheduled will help
you for end itmes.
We have used planner codes to control who in production control gets to see
which requirements ... warning ... they can be a royal pain to maintain
when there are changes in personnel ... plus you need different rules for
common compoenents whose where-used are under different people coordination
Warning ,,, there are some holes in BPCS documentation with respect to
which fields are for our use, reference only ... for example, customer type
is used in sorting accounting reports. (we are using customer type for
which personnel manage that customer in marketing reps, customer service,
QC inspection, engineering etc., a combination that changes regularly)
Item Class is not a good thing to use for this, because as items get
propagated into other files, if that has special significance, changing
class in master does not fix all the places it has been propagated. We do
have item classes for
... obsolete
... inactive components
... replaced by a common
What we do (on 405 CD) is to enter the same item several ways.
A letter on the end of the item has special significance
S = Sample
R = Rework Repair
A special character in front of the item # (e.g. exclamation point) puts it
at the front of the collating sequence, so all of a particular scenario
grouped together.
This is to enter orders that need to be entered, but they are entered on a
"fake" item, then when the real item is ready for business, delete the
phony character in front. We have these at the front of our lists of items
as reminders of urgency of getting them ready for business as usual.
Hello,
We are on BPCS 8.2.
For new product development we need to create the item number in BPCS.
As soon as an item number is created in BPCS it is available for the order
programs.
Is there a way in BPCS to block an item number for Purchasing, Shop Floor
or Sales?
Regards,
Peter Heeren
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