[SYS21] Re: Job Management

["Jeff Klipa" <jklipa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I liked Neville's response and would add that we had used it at one of our 
divisions for a few years before we sold that division.  Only one person 
really knew how to use it and it was not something you could just pick up 
the book and read and start using...  We really relied heavily on consulting 
and training to get it implemented...  We had a mod to allow a link into the 
G/L for update...  We had an intermittent problem with one of the programs 
corrupting the data when entering time sheets...  We never did figure out 
the cause of that one...

We were using it to track tooling and prototype costs.  We did not find the 
invoicing module useful so we did all invoices on an Excel spreadsheet with 
direct postings into A/R.  We had separate customer numbers set up just for 
tooling since we did not want to confuse the accounting for live production 
with any prototyping or other startup costs...  We entered time sheets 
against the jobs and kept track of commitments against the PO's...

I would also add that the code in this module is some of the most poorly 
written I have seen in the JBA package...  I do not consider this a very 
stable module.  While there are success stories out there, Neville 
apparently among them, I caution that it is not a very intuitive module and 
will require training and consultation and probably some code tweaking to 
get it to function the way you envision it should.

Good luck.




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