RE: Maintaining Open Order Total for Customers

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Bud,

If the order is so far out in the future, why not make it a Quote instead of
an Order until it becomes a firm order?

Eric A. Wolf

Independent MAPICS Consultant
>From: Bud Roble
>Reply-To: mapics-l@midrange.com
>To: "'mapics-l@midrange.com'"
>Subject: RE: Maintaining Open Order Total for Customers
>Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:16:20 -0800
>
>Dale,
>
>Thanks for the input. You first example wouldn't work in our case as we
>don't want to deal with multiple customer numbers. Here is the exact
>situation..... We have certain orders we key into the system that have an
>"undefined" due date. We really have no idea when they will be shipped and
>in some cases, they never do. We call these orders "Hold for release"
>orders (HFR's). These orders have been keyed into the system with a
>special due date 01/01/39. I know you're going to ask "what happens when
>you get to the year 2039" ;-) What can I say.... I inherited this, but I
>have to deal with it now. We want the credit checking procedure to ignore
>any open orders having this special due date. In an ideal world, the
>credit checking would occur in a single program somewhere and I would go in
>and modify the code to ignore the 01/01/39 dates when it's figuring out the
>value of the open orders in the system. I've found an API (UMBCLC1R) that
>is for Customer Credit Checking but the Mapics support line told me this is
>a shell program and I would need to write a whole credit checking routine
>from scratch myself. In addition, if I was to put my own routine in this
>API, they say I would need to turn off the Mapics credit checking. I don't
>really want to do that. The mod I need to make seems pretty simple on the
>surface; I just need to figure out where to make it and hopefully only in
>one place.
>
>Bud
>
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>From: DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com [mailto:DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:37 PM
>To: mapics-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: Maintaining Open Order Total for Customers
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>We have what may be a similar situation. Our dealers have multiple credit
>limits, depending on the product they purchase. We gave each dealer a
>unique customer number for each product line. To make it easier, we broke
>the customer number in to a 6 and 2 format. For example:
>
>Campers: 12332110
>Parts: 12332111
>Trailers: 12332130
>
>The common customer number in this instance would be 123321. You can set
>a different credit limit on each of the 8 digit customer numbers.
>
>You can also do it in user exits. We do some terms code overrides and
>automatic credit approvals in the end-of-order user exits for certain
>orders (promotional items and so on). That's especially useful if you use
>COM_Net, which doesn't allow for terms code entry and other special stuff.
>
>Dale Gindlesperger
>Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
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>Bud Roble
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>11/05/02 03:06 PM
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>I have a need to filter out certain orders from being included in the Open
>Order Totals for Customers. Basically, I don't want certain orders to
>be
>counted against the customer's credit limit. Can anyone tell me where
>I
>would look to make this modification? I'm hoping Mapics had the
>foresight
>to place the logic in a single program somewhere. I would love to be
>able
>to use a user exit, but that's probably pushing the envelope. :-) Any
>assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Bud Roble
>(805)794-3027
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