RE: Should you Summarize?

["George Sagen" <gsagen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

You solicited other's opinions regarding summarization. I agree with
everything you said and have only a few more comments to contribute.

I would never summarize, except maybe BTP transactions where the detail is
kept in the BTP files and the system on which the transaction originated.

I would sometimes group.

I would choose to group inventory transactions. If you don't, and you are at
all inventory transaction intensive, then your event history will be very
busy. Reconciliation gets a bit harder with grouping turned on but is easily
overcome by macroing in enough subsystem data to tie the ITH to the GLH.
With grouping turned on the GXR will only get you to the GHH, but won't tell
you which specific GLH records correspond to the ITH. Macro in the item #,
trans affect code, and sequence # for a good tie.

I have witnessed some real disasters where BPCS users go live with grouping
and summarization turned on, then can NEVER reconcile the subsystems to the
G/L.

In versions 6.04+ a GXR record is created for summarized and grouped records
facilitating a loose tie.


Geo.

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