Re: Deleting an Inventory Location -- automate the manual data entry pain
Norman Boyd <[email protected]>
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I have used Lickety-Split and as many of you know filling out a spreadsheet with intended transactions is a little easier than manually keying every one of those into the inventory transaction screen. Fewer keystrokes if nothing else AND the ability to review the transactions as a set. Lickety-Split uses the native BPCS screens and records back into the spreadsheet whether or not a transaction was successfully posted. If I recall correctly, Milt please correct me if I'm wrong, it can record the reason a transaction did not post. Even if it doesn't record the reason, you can manually key a handful of FAILED transactions and see why they failed. If you would hit the F13 key to override the error, you can go back and program that into Lickety-Split and re-run the missed transactions. Or, if you keyed something wrong and that's what's causing the errors, fix the data in the spreadsheet, removing the successfully processed records, then re-run the process. My conclusion, if you have a LOT of transactions to manually key on a regular basis, key them in a spreadsheet where you can review them for accuracy then run Lickety-Split. As a note - we've used Unbeaten Path for BPCS training and have several of their software packages making the maintenance and some analysis of BPCS MRP data easier. Norman K. Boyd MIS Administrator Keihin Thermal Technology of America, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. If you are the intended recipient but do not wish to receive communications via email, please advise the sender immediately. -----Original Message----- From: BPCS-L [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 5:47 PM To: BPCS ERP System Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] Deleting an Inventory Location -- automate the manual data entry pain Nice plug, but wouldn't you have to key the data into Excel? So, I can key the data into INV500 manually, with it's interactive edit checks, or, I can key the data into Excel without any edit checks and then pump it up with your software and then let the edit checks happen. I can only see this being an advantage if I had some method of an intelligent automated process which would dump out the necessary corrections, convert that into Excel, and then pump it up with your software. Rob Berendt -- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: "Milt Habeck" <[email protected]> To: "BPCS user group" <bpcs-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Date: 04/26/2017 05:43 PM Subject: [BPCS-L] Deleting an Inventory Location -- automate the manual data entry pain Sent by: "BPCS-L" <bpcs-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> <vendor> Dear Robert, Replies from Mr. Bilgen and Al Mac confirm our conclusion that a considerable amount of manually-entered inventory transaction activity will be needed to solve this. There is no way within BPCS to prohibit the use of an active location by specific items. So, it's necessary to deactivate your bad locations and to do that, all inventory quantities will first have to be removed or moved. The simplest method would be to remove or zero out invalid locations with a cycle count type of transaction, but that does not handle actual inventory that may exist. So a better alternative would be to transfer any existing inventory found in the bad/fictitious locations into valid locations. Here's an idea to greatly reduce the pain of manually entering a high volume of transactions. Our Lickety-Split software transports rows of Excel data into iSeries green screen apps (in this case INV500) as if it were being keypunched. It's lightning fast with zero fat thumb errors .... and .... all the edit checking in the green screen application is still performed. It's slick. More information ---> <http://www.unbeatenpath.com/software/dataentry/Lickety-Split.pdf> http://www.unbeatenpath.com/software/dataentry/Lickety-Split.pdf Reference letter ----> <http://www.unbeatenpath.com/references/away02stewart.pdf> http://www.unbeatenpath.com/references/away02stewart.pdf Automating the INV500 entry effort with Lickety-Split makes the inventory clean-up extremely quick .... before more inventory arrives in the bad location by accident. Additional research may be needed to see what is causing your inventory to get into the bad locations in the first place. If it is arriving from open shop orders or allocations, those may also need to be taken care of before locations can be deactivated. Warmest regards, Milt Habeck Unbeaten Path International [email protected] (888) 874-8008 (+USA) 262-681-3151 www.unbeatenpath.com </vendor> From: B Bilgen Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 8:06 AM To: bpcs-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Robert, You can always run INV970 which will delete all records from the lot, location, and container files (ILN, ILI, and YCI) that do not have any inventory and do not have any activity. However it doesn't sound like that is the activity you want to do. There is no system program available to remove a single item from the location inventory - you will need to do this manually. Here are the steps that BPCS takes before removing records (in INV970). It would be a good idea to follow the same edit checks for the records you want to remove manually. <snip> From: Robert G. Hermann Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 12:44 PM To: <mailto:BPCS-L-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> BPCS-L-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Subject: [BPCS-L] Deleting an Inventory Location A manager at one of our plants sent me the question below. As far as I know the answer to his question is No, but I thought I'd ask the experts here on BPCS-L. We are on BPCS 5.1. (Unfortunately, we moved our headquarters to a new building a year ago and were forced to ditch all hard-copy BPCS documentation prior to the move.) Thanks in advance. Best regards, Bob Hermann CertainTeed Corporation ======= Is it possible to delete an inventory location in BPCS for an individual part number? If so, please advise. Background Info: We have numerous parts with multiple locations that are no longer used. We also have a couple of a couple of fictitious locations (e.g., BAN and PAN) we want to get rid of. We think we know how to mass delete location from the system, but all items have to be at zero qty. We would like to remove the locations as we come across them for individual items. An example is part number U35A02001. You can see from the transactions below that we reported a shop order on 3/21 and then transferred the inventory from BAN to FM0105 on 3/27. It would have been great at that time to the delete BAN as a location for this line item. Trans Ref No Whse/Loc Quantity Date Balance Lot T 30 FM0105 1.000 3/27/17 1.000 T 30 BAN 1.000- 3/27/17 PR 52698 30 BAN 1.000 3/21/17 1.000 FYI - we have recently started an aggressive cycle counting program and are constantly running into these BAN and PAN locations, which have no physical location in the warehouse. Inaccurate or poorly labeled warehouse locations, part identification, and shop order reporting issues so far have been the primary reasons for our count discrepanices. We want to clean up the locations both in BPCS and in the plant. 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