Re: FEATURES AND OPTIONS

[Pete <mainstay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Lloyd


       Don't have a detailed recollection of setting up features and
options, I just remember it was a bear to deal with.    If you're
interested, my company sells a Mapics integrated Configurator that can
replace the feature / option approach to specifying products.  It's not as
complex or expensive as KBC and can interface back as far as Mapics/DB-3.

       If you're interested, you can email back or call me at the number
below.  Thanks.


     Pete Sultatos
     MAINSTAY Application Systems, Inc.
     (717) 292-9939








At 10:09 AM 11/19/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> We are a designer and Manufacturer of Embedded Computers.
>
> Our Bills of Materials are quite detailed, our products can be configured in
> many different ways, and as such, we would like to implement Features and
> Options.
>
> All of our documentation references setting up the S-Number Template for
> the PDM
> tailoring Questionnaire, but we are using PDM+, and there is no tailoring
> Questionnaire for this that I can find!
>
> Also, what are the rules for adding Features and options to a BOM?  When I
> attempt to do this in the TEST environment, I get any manner of errors stating
> such things as "Feature/Option conflicts with Parent item type" etc.  The only
> time that I am successful is when I add something to a bill and call it a
> "Phantom"?
>
> As an example, here is a common scenario that we would like to attempt to
> tackle
> using Features and Options.  (Bear in mind that this is our take on how this
> should work, if we ever get that far)
>
> 8350884F    (LB3-P5V-Q-01)      *****PARENT ITEM*****