Re: Deleting an Inventory Location -- automate the manual data entry pain
Richard Schoen <[email protected]>
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Rob you've just described what RPA or Robotic Process Automation technology can do. The term is new to describe the type of edge automation tasks you can accomplish without changing existing app code. Check out our Automate product to learn more http://www.helpsystems.com/automate You can script Excel entry, validation, reformatting and logging efforts all into an automated task. You can upload/download, validate, call CL and RPG programs as well as script 5250, Web and Windows interactivity if needed. If you want to do a little POC review send me a scenario and I'm happy to demo some concepts as well. If you google it, RPA is all the buzz for automating mind numbing daily tasks and it works well. Regards, Richard Schoen | Director of Document Management Technologies, HelpSystems T: + 1 952-486-6802 RJS Software Systems | A Division of HelpSystems [email protected] www.rjssoftware.com Visit me on: Twitter | LinkedIn ------------------------------ message: 2 date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:46:59 -0400 from: Rob Berendt <[email protected]> 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 -- This is the BPCS ERP System (BPCS-L) mailing list To post a message email: BPCS-L-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/bpcs-l or email: BPCS-L-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l.