Re: AR Hierarchies -- SYSTEM21

Harry,

The Heirarchcy option (36/ARU) does three main functions.
1.  Sets the hrriearchy parameters and files
2.  Converts all AR transactions for the children (original account and
customer account)
3.  Rebuilds the AR balance.

The parent child relationship exists on another file besides SLP04, and
also impacts on the transaction master file (SLP15/20)

Having survived a conversion of a customer master and transactions file
from another system which included setting up of hierachies, I would not
recommend you do it manually.

As for breaking the function into components it would be possible and would
require a (thoroughly tested) mod to read back in the paramters, convert
the data and rebuild.

Give me a call to discuss.

Michael





Harry Young <hyoung@alsafe.com.au> on 18/08/2000 05:42:00 PM

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We have several thousand customers and come from a business 400 version 2
to  version 3.5.1 ish. We ae experiencing difficulties with allocating
receipts in AR. It appears that the hierarchies relationships are not
properly defined (i.e. SLP04 has no records). Option 36 of the AR utility
(Maintain customer hierarchies) solves the problem of retrospectively
establishing a relationship with historical data in mind. The problem is
this takes minutes per relationship and we have 70 pages of parent/child
relationships to set-up. Conceptionally we would like to split this
utility into two parts 1 to enter the relationship and 2 to rebuild.
Has anyone experienced something similar or can comment on a possible SQL
load of SLP04 then an AR rebuild.

Thanks in anticipation

Harry Young

I.T. Manager
Alsafe Safety Industries Pty Ltd
Phone: 61 3 9556 1234  Fax: 61 3 9555 4691  e-mail: hyoung@alsafe.com.au

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