RE: ISL

Ann,

No personal experience, just what I gained from reading
the user manual. We have two plants (2 planning warehouses)
and needed orders from one to feed orders in the other. ISL
seemed to be aimed at multi-environment, multi-machine and
all we needed was a one way feed one po, one mo approach.
At that time ISL was still being fitted into MAPICS with a
high APAR rate so we just rolled our own interface. As I
remember it the cost was pretty high as well, on the order
of $40k to start and $10k ALF.

The biggest issue for us wasn't the programming but the
material handling aspect. Shipping, transferring and
receiving the orders was sort of difficult. ISL may
automate this better than we did but someone still has
to handle the "stuff" and acknowledge receipt. Likewise
leadtimes and schedule changes can cause havoc...

If you decide on the program route I would be happy to
give you a head start on it.

Good luck!

Konrad