Re: 405CD HPO HPH

We have multiple scenarios of glitches in need of clean up.
For example, inventory on a dead facility.

I found out about the dead PO records last week, and thought it might be a
simple solution, but ask BPCS-L in case I had overlooked some scenario,
since this is a topic I seldom explore, and BPCS documentation is
incomplete, not in any one consistent location, and often as clear as mud.

We do not have ASN in our system.

We do have ESN which can have notes for PO CO and more ... there are seven
different types ... I had previously discovered what I thought were notes on
long dead orders, so that was on my list of glitches to deal with.
MPN has notes for engineering, items routings etc. also appears to contain
some obsolete content.

We have experienced a problem, similar to what Dick said, with reusing SO
numbers when there is still labor history on the former use of those SO
numbers. When you do inquiry into the new use of them, you see activity on
the former use of same orders.

There is an opposite side to this issue, if we do vigorous purging of
history. Final purge of shop orders needs access to ALL history on those
same orders ... inventory, labor. Vanilla BPCS purge of history apparently
does not hang onto history which may still be needed for any orders kept
open extra long time for whatever reason.

Some 405CD problems may be fixed in later versions of BPCS.
-
Al Mac


-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 8:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] 405CD HPO HPH

Al - How about PO Notes, file ASN? We deleted some old PO history at one
point and when we reused PO numbers, the original notes were attached to
them. Made for considerable confusion. Had to delete the notes too.

Sounds a bit similar.

Dick Bailey
MCFA, Inc.

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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:11 AM
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Subject: [BPCS-L] 405CD HPO HPH



I have found suspected file corruption & want to confirm my understanding
before deleting what is not wanted.

One problem found are records in HPO for order #s, for which there is no
corresponding HPH summary record.

HPO is supposed to contain detail lines of PO or Requisitions, and a unique
line #, which ties into count of line #s in HPH, so if we were to delete HPO
lines, we would need to revise corresponding HPH count of lines. There's
not supposed to be anything else in HPO than PO lines and Requisition lines.

HPH is supposed to have one header summary record per valid PO or
Requisition. So there would be no harm to BPCS by removing any HPO records
which do not have a corresponding HPH header for the same PO?

If we manually removed HPO records, outside of BPCS programs, there would be
no need to run any reorganization programs to get other files totals in sync
with remaining HPH HPO records? The normal MRP, end fiscal, would
straighten everything out?



-Al Mac-

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