Price List Copy (1.10.1.8)

[Chris Kelleher]

Hello!!

We are running MFG/Pro 86E on Progress and Unix.

I would likt to copy an existing price list A which has start date 01/01/00
to another price list B which is also to start on 01/01/00. The price list A
also exist with valid prices today, but the one starting next years has has
some price adjustments done.

I am not able to find out in the documentation what prices will be copyed.
There is no field where I can spesify which valid date to use from the
source list.
Am I way out here or?


Aina Aske Nesby
ERP Analysist
Supply Chain Management

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[Chris Kelleher]

Dear Aina,

It is not possible to select a start and/or expired date for the source
price list. All prices in the source price list, that match the selection,
will be copied to the target.

The start date entered in Price List Copy for the new price list will be
used to select whether or not expired price list will be copied. The latter
does not work as expected see herafter.

Some issues to take into account and meanwhile I thing I found some errors
in release 8.6C:
- If a source price list contains two price records for a customer/item
combination
one record with an expired date.
Example:
record 1 start 22/09/99 expired 29/10/99
record 2 start 30/10/99 no expire date

Then if you copy this price list to itself, not clearing the target, and
your start date is 25/10/99 the system will create the following:
record 1 start 22/09/99 expired 21/10/99 <== expired date has been change
record 2 start 30/10/99 will now get an expire date of 21/10/99 HUM HUM HUM
new record 3 start 22/10/99 no expire date

- If however the start entered in Price List Copy excludes the record 1 it
will not be copied, UNLESS the record 1 is the only record for the
customer/item combination.

Example:
record 1 start 22/09/99 expired 25/09/99

Then if you copy this price list to itself and your start date is 30/10/99
the system will create a new price list for the above record 1:
record 1 start 22/09/99 expired 25/09/99
record 2 start 30/10/99 HUM HUM HUM


Conclusion, be carefull when Using Price List Copy, it has some strange
behavior.


Kind regards,
Danny Gaethofs
Origin QAD


PS:
For one of our customers we are customizing Price List Copy functionality to
be able to copy a source customer/analysis code into another
customer/analysis code, since it is not possible to do this with standard.