Re: Facility wise Stock

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On this list it is sometimes helpful to identify what version of BPCS you 
are on, since what is doable varies by version.  For example, I am on 
version 405 CD mixed mode 400 V5R1.

If you are only interested in one item in one facility as of end of fiscal 
month, then look it up in INV300 summary screen, before any new 
transactions for the month, set the facility filter, and then print the 
screen ... that is your report.

if you find out a few days after new month transactions entered that you 
need to know what the on-hand was as of end month, then INV300 F21 and 
adjust the filters to reconstruct that.

If you look on the INV menus, there are already a mountain of reports that 
come with BPCS.  I suggest you run one of each, then print a few pages, not 
the whole thing.  You may find that the report you need already exists.

We have constructed reports that we run at the time of end fiscal month 
that have this data computed for every combination of facility item type 
class warehouse, on-hand, cost extended, so if a question comes up at our 
site, we just look at the report that was generated during the relevant end 
fiscal.

The Opening Balance is what the on-hand was the end of the fiscal month, so 
if what you want is the closing balance for last month, just use opening 
balance that is there now, and ignore issues receipts adjustments..

If I misunderstood your question, and what you are interested in is the 
on-hand right now, here's the formula:

   ON_HAND = opening bal + receipts - issues + adj
   ON_HAND - allocations = available inventory

You may need to include NON NETTABLE in your math.
For example, we have a warehouse for problem items that QC has to deal 
with, and until they are resolved, the MRP is not allowed to assume they 
can be consumed in production.

The issues in IIM ILI IWI ILN are the grand total of the ITH issues (not 
just transaction type I ... check out the rules in file ITE) for the 
current fiscal month, since the Opening Balance was recomputed.  Similarly 
receipts and adjustments.  For example, most of our issues are via 
transaction type CI (components issued to factory orders thanks to labor 
reporting causing backflushing of multiple issues what was needed to 
manufacture what we reported we made) also some RJ (what was consumed in 
the process of reported scrap)

But for your site you need to
* See what rules are setup in ITE file (transaction effects)
* get counts of which of those are being used in ITH (there may be rules in 
ITE that you are not using)

There are transactions that go into ITH that have no effect on inventory 
on-hand, such as those that change $ values.

Every time there is a transaction in BPCS that the ITE rules say needs to 
affect either Opening Balance (e.g. a transaction back dated into prior 
month after the month got closed), Issues, receipts, or adjustments, then 
BPCS adds detail record to ITH, and updates the running totals in IIM IWI 
ILI ILN  whatever's relevant to your implementation.

So if what you want is the grand total as of the end of a fiscal month, you 
have no need to go into the individual detail ITH transactions.  The answer 
is right there in the Opening Balance.

Now you had said you only want the total for a particular facility, not the 
complete corporate total.

The IWI file may be simpler to work with than the ILI file.
ILI is combination item-warehouse-location
IWI is combination item-warehouse inventory detail in which you need to 
link to IWM to get the facility for that warehouse, for the purpose of only 
including the data on the facility you want.

If for some reason, not stated in your question, you do need to link ILI 
and ITH then it is inaccurate to link only on item.  You also need to link 
on warehouse and location.  If you are netting ITH activity, you probably 
need to do some date range that agrees with your fiscal month, as spelled 
out in the General Ledger, which can be a pain to access for a number of 
reasons ... the way the calendar is structured, and for security reasons 
some people are locked out of General Ledger.

Any program or query that accesses ITH file needs to be run on JOBQ not 
interactive, because ITH is probably one of your largest files ... ours has 
2 million records.  Depending on how the software accesses that file, 
interactive access can be extremely disruptive to overall 400 performance.


> Hi all,    I am new to this mailing list.    I have a query in my mind. I 
> need to take a report about the closing balance  of the Items belonging to 
> particular Facility.    I checked with ILI file for the particular item 
> and can fetch the  opening balance , reciepts, issues and 
> adjusments.    Here in the issues I need to cosolidate the total on the 
> basis of  transaction type ( I type) , and adjustments (A type) 
> and  issues tp Production(J transaction)      How can I achieve this? If I 
> link ILI and ITH (based on Item)  It is giving large number of datas and I 
> am not able to locate  the Particular transaction.    Can any one help me 
> out in this?    Thanks  Muthu  India