Re: Commission WorkSheet & Commission Percentage

Bonnie,

Let me give you the "true" scoop on the Commissions Worksheet and logic 
provided in COM/CSM.  It was decided early on that there are so many different 
industries that record and calculate Commissions so many different ways there 
would be no way to provide a function that would please the customers.  
Therefore, they decided to provide the "hooks" by allowing customers to enter 
more than one salesmen on any Quote/Order entered.  There are User Exits in 
strategic locations to allow the user to write additional data to their own 
supplemental file.  The report generated at month end is the exact same report 
that was generated in the DB version of MAPICS OE&I.  MAPICS felt most 
customers would use the information provided in the basic file, plus their 
additional information that would need to be used to calculate commission their 
"own" way to rewrite the Commissions report to fit their own needs.

At this time, it is very unlikely this logic will change as I'll bet everyone 
one of the members on this list calculates Commission differently, which only 
re-inforces the original thinking on this subject.  If you need a change made, 
consider using the User Exits or API's provided to add the additional 
information you need to write your own calculation/reports to fit your 
individual company needs.

Paola Groeber
MAPICS Consultant
(Former Application Manager/Business Analyst of COM/CSM)


>
> From: Bonnie_Lokenvitz@epcmolding.com
> Date: 2002/11/07 Thu AM 09:26:37 EST
> To: mapics-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Commission WorkSheet & Commission Percentage
>
>
>
> XAR6 PTF 3196
>
> CFO is questioning why accounting does not use the Commissions WorkSheet
> that is printed
> every month end.
>
> We use all 3 decimal positions of the Commission Percent field.  Commission
> Worksheet  shows only 2.
> Help desk says it gets truncated somewhere along the way but all the
> related files appear to carry full field.
>
> Does anyone use the worksheet?   Or did you write your own?
>
> Bonnie Lokenvitz
> Engineered Polymers
>
>
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