Re: EPDM Issues and Concerns

FYI -  I have found it useful to Qry the 'ITMREL' item release file to PDM, to ensure only one site is synced to PDM.

 

Also, Costing - 'ucdef'  is now supported at the 'site' level in EPDM as reference in the WH master.

 

 

Jeff

 


 
> To: mapics-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
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> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:24:37 -0500
> Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] EPDM Issues and Concerns
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> Dee A. Sondergard
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> Therese,
> I don't know if anybody answered directly one question you had - "Do you 
> ever have to do any maintenance to ITEMASA B or C again"? The answer is 
> 'NO'. When you maintain the item revision record - for example ITMRVA - 
> the corresponding item master record - for example ITEMASA - is maintained 
> for you by the application. This is so those files can still be used by 
> the applications not yet enabled for EPDM. This is done for the 
> "released" site item revision record. I've always said that the 
> applications "morphs" the data from your item revision maintenance to the 
> item master files. Be aware that you MUST "release" a new item you add in 
> order to make it visible to those applications not yet enabled (parts of 
> COM and PUR typically) So if you add a new enterprise item and item 
> revision and DO NOT perform the release function - you might get the 
> symptom of trying to enter a purchase order for that newly added item and 
> get "item not found". And, as mentioned before, only one site's item 
> revision record can be released (connected) to the item master. 
> 
> Be careful of queries. I would suggest re-pointing them to the item 
> revision files. Only because as functions get added to the applications 
> new fields are added and, in some cases, replace old fields. So sometimes 
> those old fields are no longer updated. One example I can think of (not 
> specific to EPDM) is when we added the item base price file and began 
> storing COM base prices there - the price field in ITEMASA was no longer 
> updated or used. But if you had data in that field before - it stayed 
> there. So some queries might be accessing that field and getting old data 
> if they were not changed to use the new item base price file instead. 
> Similar "unpredictable results" may occur with ITMRV* and ITEMAS*. 
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Dee
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> message: 1
> date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:36:59 -0700
> from: "Sansi, Jim" <[email protected]>
> subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] EPDM Issues and Concerns
> 
> Therese--- Even with EPDM the ITEMASA/B/C files still exist (for now)
> and are used.
> 
> -J
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> Subject: [MAPICS-L] EPDM Issues and Concerns
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> Hello everyone,
> 
> 
> 
> We are going to be installing EPDM in a test environment in
> the next couple of weeks. I told our "EPDM team" that I would post this
> message on this site to receive input on any concerns and issues that
> some of you came across when installing EPDM. There are always some
> Gotcha's that we never know about or expect. One question I have is -
> If we have programs and queries that are using the ITEMASA,B, or C files
> do we need to convert and direct them to the ITMRVA,B,C files. Do we
> ever have to do any maintenance to the ITEMASA,B, or C ever again? 
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