We are on an earlier version of BPCS where we use different pricing methods
for different customer items, that can sometimes lead to an item being
shipped for zero price in error. Once the data is on a customer invoice,
it is very difficult to detect, let alone get the customer to pay.
What we now do is run a query/400
(a) listing all customer orders lines shipped today with price zero
(b) listing all customer order lines due to ship with price zero.
We use the customer type to track the personnel in charge of customer
service, marketing, quality, engineering etc. associated with each
customer, so when I see new activity on one of the customer problem
reports, I know who to notify.
When billing, I can bypass selected customer orders, or entire customers,
when there are some problems that customer service ought to clarify first.
I run the billing at end day, after the shipping has completed. This is
one of several reports I run, looking for possible errors in the data of
what was shipped today, due to ship soon. At this time of year there is
high risk that orders that should be due early in 2009 will be keyed as due
early in 2008, and early in 2009, risk that some orders due in 2009 keyed
as due in 2008. Plus same kind of error elsewhere in BPCS.
It is easier for us to spot that kind of error nowadays because one of the
reports I distribute with daily billing is a PAST DUE report ... list &
total all customer order lines with a due date to ship prior to today. It
shows minimum due date by customer & whole report.
New problems I notified people about yesterday:
* now that we know the dates of physical inventory, what about all these
customer orders due to ship during those dates?
* here is a list of items with no usage (shipped to customer or used in
production) in 2008 ... in some cases our safety stock is correct for prior
year's customer requirements, but is now driving excess unwanted inventory
New problem I did figure out what to do about it
* Field in shipping, how many shipped, can key in (by accident) negative #
... various programs down stream ASSUME positive # there, do not show the
sign ... the invoice becomes a credit memo
New problem I not yet figured out what to do about it:
* We key in delivery ticket manually (it would be nice if it was
automatically generated like orders etc.) ... someone did a shipment
without specifying the ticket #. Some reports won't run on shipments with
none. But it got billed.
Al Macintyre
Dan Sweeney :wrote:
Christopher,
Currently there isn't any configuration setting nor system parameter in
ERPlx that will tell the system that a zero priced order line is in
"error".
A modification to the order processing program that prices the order
line will need to be enhanced in order to satisfy your companies
management.
-----Original Message-----
From: ChristopherWynn@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:12 AM
To: BPCS ERP System
Subject: [BPCS-L] ORD700 - Add edit for zero price
Currently all customer orders are priced using special pricing. The
nature of our business requires that each customer/ product combination
have its own price and effectivity dates. When a price expires ORD700
will issue a warning message(UME6055) stating the price is zero but will
allow the order line to be accepted. This has resulted in zero priced
lines being shipped on a few occasions. Our management would like the
system the prevent zero priced order lines from being entered. We
would
like to make the zero price edit an error instead of a warning. Is
there
a way to configure the system to do this? Or is a modification
required?
We are using ERP LX version 8.3.1. We are new to BPCS having migrated
from PRMS recently.
Christopher Wynn
AB Mauri Foods, Inc./Ohly Americas
Information Systems
314-392-0876
midrange.com
