Re: Inactive Inventory report -- SYSTEM21

Hi Jeff,
One more thing to check....

Reversing a Production Booking also increases usage (or at least it used
to).... which can make for some wacky usage figures.

hth,
Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: <Jeff_Klipa/Harvard@harvardind.com>
To: <JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: Inactive Inventory report


> We've been trying to prove out the usage numbers in INP60...  We are doing
> weekly updages (1/INC) and have been since the start of this fiscal
year...
> The average weekly usage numbers just don't add up...  Does anyone else
> have any knowledge or experience proving these numbers are valid...???
>
> Take a look at how JBA calculates usage this year (USTY60)  and average
> weekly usage (AVUW60) in INP60.
>
> The problems are: USTY60 is increased by tran type N on raw materials, and
> we cannot find any underlying data to support AVUW60.
>
> USTY60 is updated in IN070.
> AVUW60 is updated in IN023.
> Our company profiles are set for a monthly average.
>
> IN023 uses INP90 which is a summary of inventory activity by month.  I can
> tie the INP90 summary numbers back to INP95.  However for adjustments it
> sums the absolute value of the transactions.  So the summary activity in
> INP90 is not the net inventory movements for an item.  Also the absolute
> value of the N transactions for raw materials are added to the adjustment
> summary.
>
> I have not been able to find any combination of the numbers in INP90 which
> supports the average monthly usage in INP60.
>
> Some variation of the adding absolute values may explain how usage this
> year is increased rather than reduced by transaction type N.  Remember the
> N is normally a production receipt on finished parts.  JBA also uses the N
> transaction on raw material for a reverse backflush created by a W
> production adjustment, unmake finished parts.
>
> Anyone...???
>
>
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