Merging Companies

["Phil Brewer" <philbrewer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the replies to my original message.   Here's the current 
state of play.....

Luckily (or I suppose it could have been forward thinking) there are no 
duplicate customers.  There are no duplicate orders either but there are 
duplicates on the Consolidated Ship file (MBKJREP) and the packed 
container file (MBKFCPP).   Because of this we are only going to change 
master files (customer etc.) and outstanding orders.  We are not going to 
change any of the shipment/invoice files.  The old companies we be kept 
but will be used only for inquiries and they will be ignored in IFM once 
it's installed.

I've currently got a list of about 80 files that will need changing,  I 
would have guessed higher than that. 

Phil 

> Phil Brewer <philbrewer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to this list and new to Mapics too.
> 
> Where I work use Mapics V6, COM, CAS, PUR, IM ....
> 
> We are in the process of installing IFM, we currently use CODA as our 
> financial package.
>
> Currently one of our environments has two companies 1 and 2. It has been 

> decided that, before installing IFM, these companies need to merge i.e. 
> all company 2 customers etc. will become company 1 and then company 2 
will 
> disappear. Has anybody else ever done this ? Any tips ? Is it feasible 
> ?
> 
> My current thinking is that i will have to manually change the company 
> number from 2 to 1 on _every_ file that has a company field on 
it......not 
> a simple task.





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