Re: Roll-over of BPCS Shop Order #

Shop order Purge and create a new Historical file.

Also consider running all the Purge/Archive programs if you have been
running this long without one.



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From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kelly, John (Limerick)
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:50 PM
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [BPCS-L] Roll-over of BPCS Shop Order #

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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