Part Tracker vs. Stock Status report

Thank you Troy, and to all who responded.


Pablo

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:59 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Part Tracker vs. Stock Status report


Hi Pablo,
As Leonard mentioned, you probably have some data corruption in your
database due to orphaned transactions. There were some bugs in Vantage that
seem to have allowed this to happen, at least in past versions (3.0 - 5.0).
Also, if you happen to use Mike Podlin's timeout utility, it can leave
orphaned transactions in certain cases as well. You should contact Epicor
about this for two reasons: 1. to find out what may have caused the orphaned
transactions (which can sometimes be a mystery). They will start by asking
you if you are using the timeout utility. 2. to obtain a fix program that
will correct your onhandqty's.

One way to check other parts that may be affected is to run your Stock
Status report for a date prior to when you started on Vantage (the oldest
date you can use is 1970). Ideally, your Stock Status should be ZERO on this
past date in history. This method is not totally failsafe, since there some
other reasons that incorrect transactions that could cause the Stock Status
to be other than zero (such as if you use non-netable bins... I'm not sure
of any other reasons at this point). Any parts that show up on your 1970
stock status report are ones that you should look into and review, and
possibly do a physical count on to verify your quantities.

Good luck.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Garza [mailto:pgarza@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:29 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Part Tracker vs. Stock Status report


Happy month end,

Our materials manager brought an issue up regarding differences between
the
stock status report and the on hand quantities in part tracker in addition
to the running total in transaction history. This change became apparent
after upgrading to 5.2 in recent months.

Example: Part Number X

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 0
Transaction History Running Total -1,195
Stock Status -1,195

After making the changes in Quantity Adjustment by adding 1,195, the
following changes occur.

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 1,195
Transaction History Running Total 0
Stock Status 0

It seems strange to me why there would be a difference in qty. Perhaps it
is
the way it recognizes negative values.
Has anyone in the group experienced the same issues? Any insight would be
greatly appreciated.


Best Regards,

Pablo Garza
714.677.0799
pgarza@...




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Happy month end,

Our materials manager brought an issue up regarding differences between the
stock status report and the on hand quantities in part tracker in addition
to the running total in transaction history. This change became apparent
after upgrading to 5.2 in recent months.

Example: Part Number X

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 0
Transaction History Running Total -1,195
Stock Status -1,195

After making the changes in Quantity Adjustment by adding 1,195, the
following changes occur.

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 1,195
Transaction History Running Total 0
Stock Status 0

It seems strange to me why there would be a difference in qty. Perhaps it is
the way it recognizes negative values.
Has anyone in the group experienced the same issues? Any insight would be
greatly appreciated.


Best Regards,

Pablo Garza
714.677.0799
pgarza@...




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So is this just an issue with 5.2? We are on 5.1 and I randomly checked our qties and they seem fine.
Thanks, Stephanie Geary
Pablo Garza <pgarza@...> wrote:Happy month end,

Our materials manager brought an issue up regarding differences between the
stock status report and the on hand quantities in part tracker in addition
to the running total in transaction history. This change became apparent
after upgrading to 5.2 in recent months.

Example: Part Number X

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 0
Transaction History Running Total -1,195
Stock Status -1,195

After making the changes in Quantity Adjustment by adding 1,195, the
following changes occur.

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 1,195
Transaction History Running Total 0
Stock Status 0

It seems strange to me why there would be a difference in qty. Perhaps it is
the way it recognizes negative values.
Has anyone in the group experienced the same issues? Any insight would be
greatly appreciated.


Best Regards,

Pablo Garza
714.677.0799
pgarza@...




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This issue started with 5.2; we upgraded from 5.0.



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephanie Geary [mailto:sageary25@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Part Tracker vs. Stock Status report



So is this just an issue with 5.2? We are on 5.1 and I randomly checked our
qties and they seem fine.
Thanks, Stephanie Geary
Pablo Garza <pgarza@...> wrote:Happy month end,

Our materials manager brought an issue up regarding differences between the
stock status report and the on hand quantities in part tracker in addition
to the running total in transaction history. This change became apparent
after upgrading to 5.2 in recent months.

Example: Part Number X

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 0
Transaction History Running Total -1,195
Stock Status -1,195

After making the changes in Quantity Adjustment by adding 1,195, the
following changes occur.

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 1,195
Transaction History Running Total 0
Stock Status 0

It seems strange to me why there would be a difference in qty. Perhaps it is
the way it recognizes negative values.
Has anyone in the group experienced the same issues? Any insight would be
greatly appreciated.


Best Regards,

Pablo Garza
714.677.0799
pgarza@...




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It appears to me that the you may have the same problem we did. We had
missing partrans records so the on-hand qty in part tracker was correct when
looking at bins but the running total when looking at part transactions was
not correct. This is because the Part Transactions grid calculates the
on-hand qty from the very begining of your history each time it is displayed
and ignores the partbin table. If your missing transactions in the parttran
table, it will cause this screen to be wrong.
At least thats what our problem was. Epicor wrote a fix for us. Although
the reason was never given, I believe it was because when a packing slip was
being cut, the users vantage session crashed. The partbin table was updated
but it crashed before the parttrans record was added. I do know there was a
confirmed bug with progress in 5.1 that allowed a non-commited transaction
not to be rolled back if the whole transaction wasn't completed.

Just a thought
Jeremy Leonard
IT Manager
K-T Corporation


-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Garza [mailto:pgarza@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:32 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Part Tracker vs. Stock Status report


This issue started with 5.2; we upgraded from 5.0.



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephanie Geary [mailto:sageary25@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Part Tracker vs. Stock Status report



So is this just an issue with 5.2? We are on 5.1 and I randomly checked our
qties and they seem fine.
Thanks, Stephanie Geary
Pablo Garza <pgarza@...> wrote:Happy month end,

Our materials manager brought an issue up regarding differences between the
stock status report and the on hand quantities in part tracker in addition
to the running total in transaction history. This change became apparent
after upgrading to 5.2 in recent months.

Example: Part Number X

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 0
Transaction History Running Total -1,195
Stock Status -1,195

After making the changes in Quantity Adjustment by adding 1,195, the
following changes occur.

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 1,195
Transaction History Running Total 0
Stock Status 0

It seems strange to me why there would be a difference in qty. Perhaps it is
the way it recognizes negative values.
Has anyone in the group experienced the same issues? Any insight would be
greatly appreciated.


Best Regards,

Pablo Garza
714.677.0799
pgarza@...




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Hi Pablo,
As Leonard mentioned, you probably have some data corruption in your
database due to orphaned transactions. There were some bugs in Vantage that
seem to have allowed this to happen, at least in past versions (3.0 - 5.0).
Also, if you happen to use Mike Podlin's timeout utility, it can leave
orphaned transactions in certain cases as well. You should contact Epicor
about this for two reasons: 1. to find out what may have caused the orphaned
transactions (which can sometimes be a mystery). They will start by asking
you if you are using the timeout utility. 2. to obtain a fix program that
will correct your onhandqty's.

One way to check other parts that may be affected is to run your Stock
Status report for a date prior to when you started on Vantage (the oldest
date you can use is 1970). Ideally, your Stock Status should be ZERO on this
past date in history. This method is not totally failsafe, since there some
other reasons that incorrect transactions that could cause the Stock Status
to be other than zero (such as if you use non-netable bins... I'm not sure
of any other reasons at this point). Any parts that show up on your 1970
stock status report are ones that you should look into and review, and
possibly do a physical count on to verify your quantities.

Good luck.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Garza [mailto:pgarza@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:29 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Part Tracker vs. Stock Status report


Happy month end,

Our materials manager brought an issue up regarding differences between
the
stock status report and the on hand quantities in part tracker in addition
to the running total in transaction history. This change became apparent
after upgrading to 5.2 in recent months.

Example: Part Number X

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 0
Transaction History Running Total -1,195
Stock Status -1,195

After making the changes in Quantity Adjustment by adding 1,195, the
following changes occur.

Part Tracker - on hand QTY 1,195
Transaction History Running Total 0
Stock Status 0

It seems strange to me why there would be a difference in qty. Perhaps it
is
the way it recognizes negative values.
Has anyone in the group experienced the same issues? Any insight would be
greatly appreciated.


Best Regards,

Pablo Garza
714.677.0799
pgarza@...




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