Re: Roll-over of BPCS Shop Order # -- BPCS-L

John,

If you do not purge and still have old shop orders, you will run into
problems. Transaction history (ITH) can handle duplicates, but shop order
maintenance, reporting and other tasks that use shop order as key, will not
work properly. It may also impact costing, labor and planning.
At minimum, I would recommend to update older shop orders to negative
numbers (which theoretically will allow to store twice as many shop
orders), but it may cause issues accessing them.
The best solution is to purge.

Regards,
Yan Shargorodsky

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Kelly, John (Limerick) <
John.Kelly@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi BPCS-L members,

The company I work for are running BPCS 3.6. Pretty old right! It has been
heavily customized over the years with the result that it continues to
support the business here in our facility.

By the very nature of its age we are on the verge of seeing our Shop Order
number hit its maximum possible value of 999,999. The relevant field is six
numeric in length.

With the roll-over date likely to occur within the next couple of weeks we
do not have the scope to implement an update to increase the Shop Order
number field size.

My business (i.e. non IT) colleagues do not have a major concern about
this event, as the Lot/Trace Code is the unique ID of choice for our
product range as opposed to the Shop Order #. From an IT perspective though
we do have a number of risks associated with the roll-over, as we will
start generating Shop Order numbers we have already used in the past once
the roll-over happens. We will see duplicate Shop Order numbers in our Shop
Order historical files which if referenced by program could cause problems
if the incorrect version is selected for processing.

I would like to ask the BPCS_L group have you experienced this event in
the past and if so can you provide any information on how you worked
through it, lessons learned etc.

Kind regards,
John.

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