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Landed costs may be added to purchase order lines in order to receive estimated costs for freight, duty, and brokerage into the inventory value of an item.  Each of the separate landed cost components may be paid to the purchase order vendor or to a different vendor.  Landed cost capitalization is available for both actual […]

May 4th, 2008 | Filed under Application

Open Credits and Debits Any credit memo created in SyteLine from a credit return or price adjustment invoice will automatically be created as an open credit.  Debit memos created by price adjustment will also be open.  Only when creating a credit or debit through AR you are given the opportunity to dictate which posted invoice […]

Feb 24th, 2008 | Filed under Application

Proper order for running MRP and MPS ProcessorThe order in which the MPS Processor and MRP Generation utilities are run depends upon the way you are using the MPS functionality. Which should be run first depends on whether or not you have MPS items which are not top level items and whether or not you […]

Feb 19th, 2008 | Filed under Application

Intro There are three main tools you can use to plan with SyteLine: MRP APS, finite APS, infinite (APSI) These key factors will help you decide which planning tool best fits your needs: Constraint behavior Accurate times Motivation There are also a few secondary factors that may affect your choice. We’ll explain each below Constraint […]

Feb 12th, 2008 | Filed under Application

Open Payments in SyteLine AP are designed to record a payment as an asset and to later allow reapplication of the payment to an invoice at a later date.    The flow in a typical scenario is illustrated below: A check is written to a vendor for a $5000 deposit (50%) on a capitol asset purchase. […]

Jan 15th, 2008 | Filed under Application

Why MRP Failed with Low Level error? At the end of the MRP Generation, you receive the following error: [WARNING – Low level codes are improperly set. MRP Generation is not complete – re-run Net Change. MRP PROCESSOR] was not successful. If you receive this error at the end of running the MRP Generation, it […]

Jan 15th, 2008 | Filed under Application

YEAR END PROCEDURE CHECKLIST The following is a list of Year End Procedures. An asterisk (*) denotes the procedures which initialize year-to-date fields in various files. In order to ensure accurate data, these utilities must be run before any processing that updates these fields is done in the new year. The timing of executing the […]

Oct 17th, 2007 | Filed under Application

If you will be dealing with customers or vendors who use currencies other than your base (domestic) currency, use the following process to set up exchange rates and other multi-currency features. Make sure the general ledger accounts specific to currency exchange are set up in the Chart of Accounts: Realized Gain Realized Loss Unrealized Gain […]

Apr 12th, 2007 | Filed under Application, Implementation

The MRP Generation algorithm – SL6 and lower (Progress versions)Regenerates the m-day calendar if it requires regeneration If full regeneration being run: Delete all requirement records for all items (mrp table) Delete all transfer order receipts for all items (rcpts table, ref-type “T”) If lasttran counter for PLNs is > 9000000: Reset it to 1 […]

Apr 1st, 2007 | Filed under Application, Progress

What is a Product Code? Product Codes are one of the key areas in developing and implementing SyteLine.  Items (Parts) are the driving point of the system.  All modules utilize items or derive their information from the use of items.  Every item must have a Product Code.  The Product Code is the method used to […]

Mar 24th, 2007 | Filed under Application