Re: New company in BPCS -- BPCS-L

When we sign on, we are taken to BPCS of a particular environment.
We ought to have a different sign on for each environment.

In my case ...
AL for the regular production environment.
ALE for the educational test environment.

There's a BPCS logo when first signing on, which can be altered through the
user menu maintenance infrastructure ... I suggest each environment's logo
be made distinctively different, so people recognize where they are.
At the top of inquiry screens, reports, menus, etc. there is name of company
... I suggest that by environment, that be adjusted to be both name of
company and name of division. Reason is to help remind people where they
are in your system.
If you do not do this, then you can end up with a problem we have had in the
past.
A person has a bunch of transactions to post to environment -a- but by
mistake they get keyed into environment -b-.

You may be more skilled than me when it comes to some steps.

Where I have managed to screw up in past copy copy libraries is making sure
the logicals point at the correct physicals.
In other words the logicals for environment -a- should point at the
physicals for environment -a-, while the logicals for environment -b- should
point at the physicals for environment -b-.
I use DSPDBR to verify this ended up correctly. DSPDBR vs. a physical file
will get you a list of all the logicals that point at it.

You may need to add some details to your Chart of Accounts that were not
there before, which means you need to review BPCSDOC on GL, or whatever
other manual you may have. Then there's stuff various places in BPCS that
cause data to flow to right place in GL.

There should be separate doc (members of BPCSDOC) on
* setting up new environment (see SSALOG logic manual)
* setting up new company (I think probably in the Gen Led manual)
* sequence setting up ... what files are pre-requisites to what other files
* what are all the files of General Ledger

You may need to copy some financial software, to get consolidated reports
that pull the data from both environments.

-
Al Mac

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99=wowway.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99=wowway.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill
Brosch
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 10:59 AM
To: BPCS ERP System
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] New company in BPCS

Al,

You're 3 for 3 with me. Everytime I ask a question, you tell me RTFM (as is
appropriate).

Found the doc, and it covers pretty much everything that I need.

The only thing that they seem to want combined (in the end) is the
financials. As for the Chart of Accounts, that is one of the very few
things that will be copied over.

Thank you!

Bill

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Al <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do you have file BPCSDOC in your library list? It should have step by

step

instructions on setting up new environment or new company.

If management wants total separation, that says to me new environment, not
new company, or new facility.

However, I have known management that wanted this at first, then later
wanted consolidated reports that had information from the two combined.

Depending on what the place being bought out is using, there's also topic
of
converting their now ERP files to BPCS.

-
Al Mac

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99=wowway.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99 <bpcs-l-bounces%2Bmacwheel99>=wowway.com
@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Bill
Brosch
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:02 PM
To: BPCS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [BPCS-L] New company in BPCS

Hi All,

Currently running 8.2, and the company is looking to buy a new
division/company/whatever. And they will be going onto BPCS.

Management has decided that they want total seperation of the two
companies. To me, that says Library Lists. No big deal. But we're
heavily
modified, so I'm going thru things now (and pretty new to BPCS as well).

So what is the best way to create a new set of libraries? I can put them
out & clear the files, but that's going to cause grief with security,
menus,
etc. Is there a "Clear application data" type of command, or something
similar?

Thanks in advance,

Bill
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