BAQ: Showing inventory across all Plants

Hi All,

I am trying to create a BAQ that shows all on hand inventory across all our plants but users are only able to see the inventory in their plant.

Is there a way to bypass this so that I don’t have to give their user account access to all plants?

The tables used in the BAQ are:

Part

PartClass

PartCost

PartBin

Warehse

Joe Rojas

Epicor Application Manager

Nordson MEDICAL

261 Cedar Hill Street

Marlborough, MA 01752 USA

+1.508.597.1392 **Phone
**+1.774.826.9245 Mobile

joseph.rojas@nordsonmedical.com

Quality Works Here

Would filtering the BAQ Constant Cur-Plant work?
Sorry read this backwards at first… thinking you wanted users with access to multiple plants to only be able to see inventory in the current active plant.

Rereading… I suspect you may need an external BAQ.

As far as I know, Jose, if a user does not have access to Site X then they won’t see any information from Site X in the default functionality. You could probably create an SQL View and use it as an external query.

@joerojas I think the problem is BAQ respects the security of plant access for the user. Bypassing that would require an external query or another method to bypass the security filtering.

We ended up distributing a simple inventory view with our inhouse BI tool.(SSAS & Excel) We chose this route because it met our needs since most use cases for this request was more analysis level and not to take action on a transactional basis. In other words what was the user going to do with the knowledge even if they had the result. They still couldnt perform a transaction which would require plant level security to be setup for the user.

Thanks for the replies.

This makes sense.

Joe Rojas

Epicor Application Manager

Nordson MEDICAL

+1.508.597.1392 **Phone
**+1.774.826.9245 Mobile

@Ernie & @Nathan_Woolen are correct. If plant restrictions are in place, then Epicor is following those rules even in BAQs that you create. It would be a nice enhancement to the software (I have suggested it) that Plant security had additional options other then a True/False… it would be better if we also had a “read only” mode so that I could see but not touch.

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