We're on version 4.0.5, and would sure appreciate some help with the
shop
order close process. We went up on BPCS in March '95, and were
told at that
time by our consultants not to run Shop Order Close (CST900,
as we have
costing installed), as we wouldn't be able to make adjustments
to shop
orders. Now, I'm sure they meant that to be a temporary
thing, as we went
through the initial learning process, but 4 1/2 years
later, we still
haven't done it!
The biggest reason we need to do
it, we've discovered, is that we would like
to do some clean-up in our
item master, but you can't inactivate an item
master that has a shop
order.
I called the SSA help desk on this, and they warned me this
may take in the
neighborhood of days (or weeks?!) to run the first time,
as we have 220,000
records in the FSO file. (He said most people
run this process at least
weekly ... whoops!)
I've played around
with this in a test envionment, and it's going to be a
real pain, I can
tell. We also have performance measurement installed
(although
we've never used), which apparently means I have to close each
period for
each facility individually before I can even do CST900.
Does anyone
have an easy solution? All I really care about is cleaning up
my
FSO (and, I suppose, the FMA) so that I will be able to inactivate
some
item numbers ... I don't care about performance measurement, the
costing
stuff, etc.
Any suggestions would be
welcome!
midrange.com
