Re: Vanilla Mapics? -- MAPICS-L

   Bonnie

     Thought you should know that when you mention the Cum level of your
Mapics code, our email filter identifies your mail as sexually
explicit.    I think we should add the titillation factor as one of the
benefits of Mapics.  That would apply to the green screen code as well I
suppose.

At 05:22 PM 07/31/2002 -0400, you wrote:


>We are mostly vanilla and entirely green screen at XAR6 Cum 2624 with 150
>users.  We have
>about 12 actual terminals left.  Most have been replaced with PC's.
>
>We are manufacturer of custom thermoplastic molded parts.  We currently
>have one plant with
>multiple 'warehouses' to segregate activities.  We use AP, AR, GL, CRP,
>COM, EC, IM, MSP,
>MRP, PDM, PCC, PUR and SA. No IFM, No PMC, no Mapics payroll.  We are
>working on a
>forecast implementation.
>
>On the AS/400, non-Mapics packages include:
>      AVE's physical inventory
>      Paras Solutions' Supplier Performance
>      TL Ashford bar-coding
>      HelpSystems ROBOT/Robot Replay applications
>      Peregrine/Harbinger EDI
>
>  Most modified Mapics code (other than reports) has to due with keeping
>FIFO date to first day
>of month.  (My trigger program is not working yet).
>
>Labor is reported via custom programs and loaded to Mapics via shop
>activity offline load.
>We use COM offline processes daily and the PDM offline processes as needed.
>Custom reports have been created for Finance (balance sheet/P&L, budgets,
>departmentals,
>  cost accounting). We use standard costing.
>
>For Customer Service we have written reports to show ship schedules,
>performance, etc.
>For one customer we have 20 year old code that we are trying to get into
>the Mapics process.
>We also have some 300+ queries (not all used).   We do some RF scanning
>for interwarehouse and packing.
>
>Our reduced staff includes a programmer, an AS/400 administrator and a
>network administrator.
>Our network guy has created some Lotus Databases for safety and MSDS's.
>  RGA's are done in Excel before they hit the AS/400. We have several users
>versed in AS/400
>  query and others who use the Excel add-in to take data from the AS/400.
>
>We also get our money's worth of support from the good folks on Mapics Help
>Desk  and the
>indispensable 'No Wait Response' site.
>
>GUI will not be implemented any time soon.
>
>Bonnie Lokenvitz
>
>
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