Future Orders

[Chris Kelleher]

How is everyone handling the reserving of inventory on orders that are
not due for some months and the items on the order have widely varying
lead times? Are you using Future orders, JIT, entering separate orders
based on groups of common lead times? What about vendors like Kohler
that have unreliable lead times that often change? Do you attempt to
keep those accurate in the database? Has anyone done some custom work
in these areas and if so, exactly what?

We don't seem to be able to get this right and I'd like to hear if
anyone has managed to solve this problem.

Thanks,
Al

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[Chris Kelleher]

Alan,
I have been talking to Jim Brown and Luther Hofman (my si guy). I am
trying
to find a way to do this. My first thought was to mod how FO works.
The
idea was to not use longest date out but to use shortest. This will not

work because until you turn a FO into an SO the buyers don't get
notified.
I then asked to mod FO as above but show all FO on the RARR. this would
work but how do you handle non-stock.
The other problem I have is in branches. The lead time is set short for

transfers. I have asked them to look at the possibility to look at the
ARP
warehoues's lead time. If the the ARP is still not a V it should keep
following
the ARP until it finds a V and use that lead time to convert the FO to a

SO.

If this is to confusing just call and I will explain. I was hoping to
have a proposal by the Nov meeting.

 

[kgm]

TREND on AIX running 64bit kernel

Hello Chris:

I am new to "TREND" and would like to know what is involved in migrating "TREND" from 32bit to 64 bit (AIX).

Please reply.

Thank you.



kgm.

 

[TomBascom]

64 bitness in the AIX kernel is independent of applications. You can have a 64 bit kernel and a 32 bit Progress without any ill effects.

Progress 10.0b is the first 64 bit Progress for AIX. There are no special issues involved in porting a Progress application to 64 bits although specific vendors generally only "certify" particular ports and Trend (infor) may, or may not have gotten around to certifying their product for 64 but Progress. If you can compile the code you can do the port yourself and it probably won't take much effort -- you should, of course, test thoroughly but you probably won't find any problems.