RE: Documentation for Who Made Changes to Item Master File

Everyone seems to have an aversion to physically printing the before and
after images.  But they don't have to actually be printed.  Depending on
storage, you can direct them to a non-printing print queue and rotate them
every month or quarter or whatever works for you.

-----Original Message-----
From: aldg [mailto:aldg@mail.rvi.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:05 PM
To: MAPICS Mailing List
Cc: Gershen, Al; Gershen, Al
Subject: Documentation for Who Made Changes to Item Master File


Hi Mapics ML:

One of my fellow employees today showed me an Inventory Item (Type 4,
Purchased) that had an incorrect cost valuation in the Unit Item Default
Cost field.  Using File Maintenance in Inventory Management, I corrected the
costing and made things right?

When the same employee asked me for documentation as to who changed the
record and put the incorrect cost there in the first place, I couldn't
answer his question.

I went to the Mapics Support and found that with an appropriate Tailoring
Question, an "Item Master Maintenance Before/After Audit 
Report" (AMVE5) would be generated after any maintenance.  I checked our
Tailoring and we didn't opt for this.

Besides the above report, are there other ways to determine which work
station/employee made the above change to a field in Item Master file?  (I
realize that only certain workstations on our network have such authority
but even so, the transaction could have been done by one of several
individuals.)  

Is there a "transaction history" file in Mapics that stores this type of
information?

I look forward to your comments and suggestions.

Regards.......
  

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Above message before copy enclosure (if any) was sent by:

Al Gershen
Grants Pass, OR 97526 
aldg@mail.rvi.net & aldg@webtv.net;
and thru ICQ # 12342782

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