Karen Mason
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Well, I don't feel terribly qualified to answer, but I'll give it a shot. We have been working on a transition to DBA and next month we will not be running dual systems for Sales Invoicing and A/R. I am not absolutely sure I follow everything you are saying. It seems some of the items are already available in DBA. Quantities shipped for example-although not available by packing Slip # are available by item # and invoice # in Inventory. That seems to be enough for me at this point in time. I put the weight, # of pallets etc on the packing list/invoice already. Line Notes would be an advantage-some notes I need to make apply to one line and not to another so SO Notes is useable but doesn't quite fill the bill. I only use one location so transfers wouldn't help me at this time My two biggest issues with the current DBA (2002.4) are: 1) I cannot easily tie in my Lot #'s to a specific invoice or shipment. It is kind of convoluted and isn't on reports that I need. Our Steel purchases are controlled by Lot #(I use the material heat #). When applied to a Work Order, the raw material lot does not showup on any of the Job Cost reports. All of our final parts have a heat code put on them. When entering finished production I specify the heat code as the lot #, but it doesn't show up on the invoice. There just doesn't seem to be a good way to tie them all together from the raw material receipt onward. 2) When we ship & invoice, we don't necessarily post right away (because parts aren't yet put into inventory through finished production). The only report that has been useful to my production manager for setting the schedules of shipments is one of the user defined reports in SO, and they always contain the "Invoiced, not posted items" and we have to go through and mark them off the list. A PO packing list would be great. We use the PO right now as the packing slip. But wouldn't that be in the PO module or the Work Order module? So the big question: Would we be willing to pay for it? I don't know. We do watch our pennies very closely and bought DBA based partially on the pricing. We would be very careful about continually adding on costs. Chances are, unless it was very inexpensive, I would maintain what I have to maintain manually or through another method. What should the price be? I do not know. It's probably worth more than I'm willing to pay. Sorry, if you were looking for a short yes or no.
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