Re: How is ISSCO populated in MOMAST?

["Al Gershen" <aldg3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff Snyder, Joan McCready and Ann Neal:

Thank you all for your postings on this matter.

I obtained some information from the lady in our finance 
dept. who handles these matters along with a telephone 
call to Mapics Support (Greg Lamb).

Where's what I found out:

When we do special MOs of this nature (in-house 
manufacturing of molds), we set up an Operation Number in 
the Routing to capture Material costs (similar to the way 
Outside Processing charges are captured).

When non-inventory materials and supplies are purchased 
for these MOs, they are charged to a special G/L Inventory 
WIP Asset account in their Accounts Payable processings. 
This is the reason why no BOM is needed on these 
MOs....mainly because non-inventory materials are used to 
produce this product.

The lady in finance reviews the Accounts Payable batches 
looking for charges to this G/L account and when she finds 
them, she enters these charges to the MO by using Shop 
Activity Update in PC&C.

These charges are made against the Routing Operation for 
these Materials and the result is that the ISSCO field is 
updated for these purchases.

Once the Periods are closed, there is no place in Mapics 
that retains theses transactions.  Mapics Support told me 
that in Mapics XA, Release 4.0 and on, that a new History 
DB file was created to capture these transactions the same 
way that IMHIST captures Inventory Transactions.

I hope that this information was helpful to you.  It 
certainly was a learning experience for me and it helped 
me in my quest to learn more about our Mapics.

Regards,
Al Gershen
ECS Composites
Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
aldg3@xxxxxxxxxxx


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:19:36 -0400
 "Jeff Snyder" <jeffreygsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    AL

>    those are the only '2' ways in 'vanilla' mapics that 
> ISSCO gets
>    populated.   Call the HOTLINE.

>    good luck
>    jeff


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:05:29 -0500
 "McCready, Joan" <Joan.McCready@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK - let's see if I can be a leeetle bit more helpful, 
> Al.

> You say there is no BOM, but what are you making the mold 
> from? (Sand?
> Plastic? Latinum?) Does this material not have a cost? Do 
> you not want to
> relieve this material inventory, even though this "end" 
> item will be
> consumed on a "real" MO and not shipped to a customer?

> Having said that, if there is no BOM, and no IMHIST 
> records, and no outside
> operations, I'd look at the MO item's Item Master records 
> to see if there is
> a cost "lurking" there that is somehow getting charged to 
> the MO. On the
> other hand, unless you've added some PTF recently, if 
> this is the one and
> only MO this has happened to, gremlins might be the best 
> (and only) answer.

>         -- Joan

> Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
> MetalTek International         fax:  636-479-3399
> The Carondelet Division        www.metaltekint.com
> 8600 Commercial Blvd
> Pevely, MO  63070                      

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:51:38 -0500
 "McCready, Joan" <Joan.McCready@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Al - zero the fields?? shoot MAPICS??? - helpful in 
> Missouri (or not), Joan

> Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
> MetalTek International         fax:  636-479-3399
> The Carondelet Division        www.metaltekint.com
> 8600 Commercial Blvd
> Pevely, MO  63070