We have currently changed the buyer in materials and need to change the buyer on the perpetual inventory in ic12. I cannot find a program that will allow me to make these changes. I looked at the ic330 but that program does not have a place for the buyer to be changed. We are 8.03-msp10-serpk2
Sorry Linda,
As I see it, you have three options.
1 - MS-AddIns (really, as much as I complain about the app, I am dependent upon it).
2 - Talk to someone technical. I/We are fortunate in having our own technical staff in-house (both programming and database management). Our tech gurus have written scripts/program that do the "find and replace" thing.
3 - Load up on the caffeiene and start typing. And believe me, I have been there and done that more times than I can remember (possibly the side-effects of the caffeiene).
As a side question, how do you identify your Buyers' codes. Originally, we started with the buyers' initials, but that quickly became unworkable (we probably have over 100 buyers in our system). Currently we use a code that is not tied directly to the person. This way, when someone leaves, the buyer codes reamains behind and is picked up by the replacement (simply change the name in the PO04). This is NOT a perfect answer, as it blurs the separation of which PO's were created by which person. Just something to consider.
WEll, I tried the ic330, and found it had a few options that I didn't think it had. I played in test for a few hours to see if I could get this program. I did get the program to remove the old buyer and replace it with me as the new buyer. Even though this might have been a few hrs of shacking my head, it worked and will save me a lot of time in production. We still use initials for our buyers and have found away around not doing duplicates by making our ordering depts buyers (o6e) as an example. Thank you for your thoughts.
linda
<<sigh> Yup... Now I see it. Sorry about that. I swear I actually looked at the screen before I responded. In my defense, thin as it may be, I am far more used to the IC331, which has the fields more explicitly called out.
Drat.
""Now that I stepped in it, what do I do with it?"
We set up the buyer as "DEF" so we don't have to ever changed it. Once the inventory buyer is ready to release the order they just change PO20 to their buyer code