Lead times went bonkers / audit trails would be handy

Hello Don,

Vanilla BPCS wouldn't do that ... and Oliver Wight would turn over in his grave if he heard that a mod had been invented to automatically recalculate/re-set lead times. Yikes. MRP II principles treat lead times as a static value during MPS / MRP / CRP / DRP mathematics.

One of the reasons we developed Stitch-in-Time [ www.unbeatenpath.com/software/sit/Stitch-in-Time.pdf ] was to fill the BPCS/ERP LX void on audit trails for crucial master files. If Stitch-in-Time had been set up to observe IIM and/or CIC, you'd have been able to see the smoking gun very, very easily.

Peace to you,
Milt Habeck
Founder/Managing Partner
Unbeaten Path International
www.unbeatenpath.com





From: Don Cavaiani
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 12:21 PM
Subject: [BPCS-L] Lead times went bonkers

Greetings,

Is there a procedure/program in either the month-end or the year-end (which we just did yesterday) that would cause all of our IIM and CIC lead times to change ?? They remain equal to each other in those 2 files, but about 15,000 part numbers have had the lead time value changed since last Friday??

Example:

Last Friday Today File

13 15 IIM
13 15 CIC

TIA

Don F. Cavaiani
IT Manager
Amerequip Corp.
920-894-7063