RE: Closing Manufacturing Orders -- MAPICS-L

David,

Yes, indeed, there was a program that was written years ago to force these
records closed. However, they were not compatible with 7 digit dates and
eventually stopped running. Y2K strikes in such small, subtle, ways. Since
the program was imbedded into the MAPICS closeout and purge by a previous
programmer, it was not an obvious program to locate. That has been remedied.

Thanks to everyone for their help!

Patrick



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaw, David [SMTP:dshaw@spartan.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:16 PM
> To:   'MAPICS-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: Closing Manufacturing Orders
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> That's the way vanilla MAPICS has always worked, since MAPICS I on the /34
> (yeah, I do go back that far).  It's fairly simple to make the automatic
> close happen with an add-on program, perhaps you had such a thing for your
> old release that wasn't brought forward?
> 
> Dave Shaw
> MAPICS-L Moderator
> Spartan International, Inc.
> Spartanburg, SC
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shrader, Patrick [mailto:pshrader@wkep.com]
> 
> Something is up, and I don't know what it is.
> 
> About a year ago, we migrated from MAPICS DB 2 to XA 5. Obviously this was
> a
> large jump in features and some things changed a little and other things
> changed a lot in the conversion.
> 
> A couple weeks ago someone was reviewing the open manufacturing order list
> (finally done after a less-than-perfect inventory), and discovered a large
> number of orders that had been fulfilled but not closed. I contacted
> MAPICS
> support and was told that MOs must be closed manually (with the "C")
> whenever you want to close them -- they will not automatically close just
> because the open quantity becomes zero.
> 
> Now my user base tells me that they have never had to do this in all their
> years using MAPICS. And, granted, there are not a lot of very (stress
> very)
> old manufacturing orders on the system (the oldest is about 8 months old.
> It
> is possible that someone was manually closing them to get ready for an
> inventory or something, and that person is gone now. 
> 
> Referencing the support response, I have instructed the users to manually
> close the orders when they key the RM transaction.
> 
> What is your experience with this? I'd contend that when an MO is
> completely
> filled, it ought to automatically close. I have not been using MAPICS that
> long, so I don't know how it worked "forever". Can anyone fill me in on
> the
> history, or are you experiencing something different? 
> 
> We are running IM in a controlled warehouse environment (which has been
> turned on in the past year).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Patrick
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