Re: Item Descriptions w/ EPDM

[michael.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

This problem is quite significant for end-users, which you no doubt have 
observed.  It requires carefuly business process design to be sure that 
people use the right descriptions when searching.  In many circumstances, 
the descriptions can be different for good reasons.  But if you're not 
careful, you start searching using one description and can't find the item 
(or bill or process or routing) when you KNOW it's there.  As time goes 
by, they migrate even further - usually because the users are unaware of 
all the descriptions and which ones you might want to keep in sync.

For one customer, we wrote a program that brings them back into sync 
again.  Specifically, we used the description from the item revision that 
is released to update the Enterprise Item, the BOM Header, Item Process 
and Routing header.  Unfortunately, that approach doesn't work for them 
anymore because we have good reasons to keep the descriptions different in 
some cases.  ?

What we've usually found is that there is no substitution for a thoroughly 
thought out procedure/process for the creation, maintenance and management 
of items, bills and routings.  (I know - probably preaching to the choir 
here).


Michael G. Ellis
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message: 1
date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:27:37 -0500
from: TBiby@xxxxxxx
subject: Item Descriptions

            We are at release 6 using EPDM.  Does anyone else have 
problems
with the descriptions being different in the item process, item revision,
enterprise item, and BOM header?  How did you resolve this?   When the 
item
is created they are all the same-if you change one, it only changes for 
that
file.  Any ideas would be appreciated.

THANKS!