Bill,
It may be true that all this separation is necessary but it has hazards. If the objective is to make the acquisition and dress it up for a sale, then I agree with separate everything. But if this is a long term strategic move, the separation will make it more difficult to come back in the future and look for ways to improve overall performance by integrating any of the typical cost saving areas such as Engineering, Materials planning, Production planning, Purchasing, Order processing, Credit management, Costing, and so on. No rebalancing of plant product mix or capacities. How will this impact your support costs? My guess is that hardware and software costs go up. Will you need a clone to support their system? Eventually you will have your "highly modified' version and they will have theirs, and the reporting will very likely never agree.
You need to get management to the table to review what were the objectives of the acquisition. Do they intend to be a holding company of several independent job shops or will they be an integrated solution for their customers?
Best Regards, Larry Costain
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Brosch <bbrosch@xxxxxxxxx>
To: BPCS ERP System <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 11:01 am
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] New company in BPCS
Total separation in this case means no shared items, no shared customers, no
ombined reports, etc. It literally could be on a separate compute (as is
ow).
The only things that they want in common is the Chart of Accounts.
Bill
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Bailey, Dick <Dick.Bailey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
BPCS provides for multiple companies. You must be operating with
one company number; can't you set up a second company number and avoid
separate library lists? Does "total separation" mean a different computer?
Dick Bailey
MFCA, Inc.
(In soon to be snowy Houston)
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From: bpcs-l-bounces+dick.bailey=mcfa.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx[bpcs-l-bounces+dick.bailey=
mcfa.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Brosch [bbrosch@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:02 PM
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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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