Re: Having much trouble working with our ERP vendor

[Mike Amos <yl_mra@xxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of questions and ideas.

Are you planning on removing the old system? Would the ERP related 
programs run satisfactorily if they were the only thing running on the 
older system. If you are keeping the old system and the performance 
would be acceptable then you may have a couple of options.

1. Either use the Lansa for the WEB as a cross platform integration tool 
, some assembly required :) , or use a vendor supplied cross platform 
integration tool.

2. Use the old system to drive the processes on the new system where the 
old system acts as a front end. This would still require either a home 
grown or 3rd party cross platform integration tool.

In option 1, the old system acts as the back end process. In option 2, 
the old system acts as the front end process.

If you are removing the old system, it may still be a possibility to 
build an IBM i partition to act as the older system for the ERP tools so 
that you don't have to pay the license fees for the additional 
processing power. Of course, fees savings, if any, would depend on how 
the licenses are written.

Just a couple of thoughts to, perhaps, get the creative juices working 
on new alternatives.

Mike

Don Cavaiani wrote:
> What BPCS - who said BPCS - I NEVER said BPCS - 1988
>
> We have already essentially re-written the MPS/MRP generation programs
> in Lansa for the WEB.