Re: Fixed Assets -- BPCS-L

Steve,

I can give you feedback from Europe. We have the main problem with the
functionality of FXA. It doesn't really fit to the legal requirements. I
just tell you couple of examples:

   Add-on to existing asset number - you can do it only using sub-numbers.
   But the depreciation done by the subnumber, not by the asset number in
   this case.
   Daily depreciation is not supported
   the asset data (salvage amount, depreciation table, gross value cannot
   be modified later properly)
   not enough movement reason codes (for example more disposal codes would
   be required)
   never do mistake in data entry, because there is no easy way to modify
   it!!!!!
   retired assetes are still visible in FXA160
   no solution for the in progress investments (example: build a new
   building, and we will receive more invoices from different vendors,
   etc.)
   no real integration to ACP

However, I have seen couple of companies, who uses it, too.

We have our own solution for fixed assets.










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                    2002.06.17 17:46
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We are version 6.0.04; heavily modified.

We are currently looking at using the fixed asset's module. Can anyone give
me a temperature for how stable the code is, how well it worked, how many
mods were done to make it work?

Thanks.

I have included what I found in the archives for my purposes.


From: Dennis Munro [SMTP:DMunro@badgerminingcorp.com]
 Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 3:37 PM
 To: 'BPCS Users'
 Subject: Fixed Assets

We have version 6.0.02, full C/S, PLf, Mar'98 cum. I am working on Fixed
Assets and noticed a file called QATJ whose  description says it is a join
logical but whose attributes  are a physical  file because there is no data
in the file.

 It has all the fields I need but the source is not to be found. I could
key all the fields from a DSPFFD listing but it's Friday & I am  looking
for an  easy way out. Does somebody know where the field  descriptions
might be  located?

 Dennis Munro
 Badger Mining Corporation
 dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com
 <mailto:dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com

Dennis

This may be a little late, given your deadlines. If you have DBU, it has an
export fields function. It creates the DDS from any existing file. Bring up
the file in DBU, F4 then F9

Hope it helps

Ardi Batmanghelidj
Data By Design, Inc.
Sudbury MA
978 443 1304
ARDIBATMAN@HOTMAIL.COM

Mark

I am also from Badger Mining and am responsible for the BPCS Applications,
particularly from a financial perspective. We are currently entering all of
our new fixed assets for the fiscal year and closing each of the periods to
create the journal entries. (We got behind for a variety of reasons related
to our implementation and are playing catch up.) It seems to be going
fairly well but your message kind of got the little hairs on the back of my
neck standing up. I wonder if we're missing anything.

One issue I do have is that CLD720 puts 01FA as the event name on all of
the GBH records. I think its probably a concatenation of our company number
and the program name. We haven't been able to figure out yet how this is
happening. I am overriding this event name in CLD500 to force it to match
the reason code before running CLD501.

I do know that we couldn't create a period master for fiscal 2000 until we
got a BMR couple of months ago. We also had a quarter in the tax calendar
for 01/01/1900 through 03/31/2000 until that BMR was installed.

We end our fiscal year on March 31 and will be running the year end Fixed
Asset jobs for the first time shortly after that.

If you have other information that could prevent us from encountering
another major disaster at year end I would appreciate it. Support from SSA
for Fixed Assets is pretty non-existent.


Martha Bayer
mbayer@badgerminingcorp.com
920-361-2388

 -----Original Message-----
 From: maseaton@earthlink.net [SMTP:maseaton@earthlink.net]
 Sent: Sunday, March 28, 1999 10:17 AM
 To: 'BPCS-L@midrange.com'
 Subject: RE: Fixed Assets

 I assume you have brought in many BMRs since the March cum. My experience
with the 6.02 version of fixed assets was that there were many bugs, some
programs did not run correctly, and some journal entries were not properly
created. If you need any specifics on these you can let me know and I  will
relay these to you based on my experience.

 Mark Seaton



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