RE: Bookings reports

I have been growing the MTHACTV file for years (I add records to a history
file nightly).  I am hoping MMA will allow us to analyze booking info a lot
better then we currently do with mthactv and query.  I am implementing MMA
this month so I don't know your answer yet, but that's one of the things our
affiliate sold us on (booking analysis).

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapics-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mapics-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of LDEGNON@AMPRO.COM
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:18 AM
To: MAPICS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Bookings reports




We are new to MAPICS, (only since April 2, 2001), and I am attempting to
figure
out how to keep history of bookings data.

I have discovered that The MAPICS daily recap Figure for Bookings calculates
the
Bookings dollars for a given time period minus the shipments against the
bookings for that particular period, causing, in my humble opinion, false
numbers! (for example, day 1 I sell 100 widgets for five dollars each, My
bookings, when I run said report for day one are 500 dollars  Day two I sell
nothing, but ship 250 of said widgets, run report for day one, and reported
bookings are down to 250 dollars!

I'm not looking for OPEN BOOKINGS, rather the number of dollars that I did
for
the particular time period!  Am I asking for something extraordinary?  I
have
NEVER worked with a system that could not, off the shelf, do this!

I am currently using IWP against MTHACTV to give me this info, but it
appears
that this info goes away after each month close.  Will MMA solve this
problem?
I KNOW others out there have had this same problem, just what have you done?

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions,

Lloyd H. Degnon
Ampro Computers Inc.
WWW.AMPRO.COM
408.360.4365
ldegnon@ampro.com


LHD
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