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 From:  koswix  
 To:  Harry (HARRYN)      
41719.13 In reply to 41719.12 
My understanding (admittedly limited and likely flawed) of the ERP approach is that it expects you to adapt to the ideal process, rather than trying to fit the ERP solution to your existing processes. I can certainly see the benefits from doing that (essential working towards a best-practice setup), but the upheaval in an established company must be staggering (indeed: see the Fox Meyer example of how not to do it!).

The course I'm taking is called Supply Chain Management and it's been a real eye-opener, to me at least, of the various ways of approaching an entire supply chain (from raw materials, production, stock levels, customer delivery etc.) and the various methods of accounting.
 
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What is the value of a part that can be purchased for $20 each, minimum purchase quantity 100 each only, you have only 1 in stock, but need 3 ?

I have no idea, but it feels like $ 2000 / 3 =  nearly $800 each.
Yes that is a difficult one. There's all sorts of things to take into account - storage costs for the unused items, opportunity costs because your cash is tied up in 'useless' stock, depreciation of the assets, reliability of a part that's stored for long periods etc. etc. etc. But then as you say you may have a requirement to be able to supply that part very quickly, so you'd need some fairly indepth failure analysis to work out how many you need to keep in stock. As for the extra you had to order, perhaps it's better to store them (which incurs costs as mentioned) or maybe it's better to dump them cheap on another market, cutting your losses and hopefully recouping some of the capital and reducing the unit cost of the ones you sold?

My exam is largely a thinking-out-loud exercise, so your thoughts are genuinely useful to me! Referring to real world examples is essential, and being able to refer to an example my lecturer hasn't come across before (even if it is 'some guy on the internet said...') is definitely worth something!

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 From:  Harry (HARRYN)   
 To:  koswix     
41719.14 In reply to 41719.13 
quote: koswix
My understanding (admittedly limited and likely flawed) of the ERP approach is that it expects you to adapt to the ideal process, rather than trying to fit the ERP solution to your existing processes. I can certainly see the benefits from doing that (essential working towards a best-practice setup), but the upheaval in an established company must be staggering (indeed: see the Fox Meyer example of how not to do it!).


My exam is largely a thinking-out-loud exercise, so your thoughts are genuinely useful to me! Referring to real world examples is essential, and being able to refer to an example my lecturer hasn't come across before (even if it is 'some guy on the internet said...') is definitely worth something!

You are exactly right about the upheaval in companies.  Intel is a good example, they tried to adapt either SAP or the other major brand (oracle ?) to the company's method of doing business, failed, and had to change how Intel does business to match how the software works. 

I am glad that my limited understanding of ERP and accounting is potentially useful to you.  I would not mind hearing the ideas of how ERP and GAAP deal with those questions, if it is ever convenient to post the info.

In general, I agree that accounting and ERP are not such different concepts, company to company, that massive customization should be needed.  That is a little bit of what irks me at the same time, it isn't that expensive to roll out a standard software product, why are accounting / erp packages so expensive with ongoing monthly fees? 

A lot of the older ERP products would auto order a part based on a High / Low quantity trigger, regardless of if it was being used a lot, or not.  Production purchasing was triggered by increasing the part count by adding a project name to each part.  I don't think that is used much anymore.
 

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 From:  Harry (HARRYN)   
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41719.15 In reply to 41719.14 
How did your accounting test go?
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 From:  koswix  
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41719.16 In reply to 41719.15 
I think it went well - I was able to use our 'conversation' to add a bit of depth to one part, so if I don't get an A+ I'm blaming you!

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 From:  Harry (HARRYN)   
 To:  koswix     
41719.17 In reply to 41719.16 
quote: koswix
I think it went well - I was able to use our 'conversation' to add a bit of depth to one part, so if I don't get an A+ I'm blaming you!

 :-) Great to hear.  As far as blame - sure why not, I get blamed for lots of things.  I have pretty thick skin at this point.

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 From:  Harry (HARRYN)   
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41719.18 
Well, back to looking at accounting software again.

Didn't make a decision before - so back at it.

More or less the same goals as before:
- Even though the data is not really "super secret" or anything, I prefer to host it in - house to avoid loosing it in case the hosting company goes out of business.
- Needs to support bill of materials and sub assemblies
- Trying to avoid quicken variations
- Mostly use linux mint, but have not yet gotten my wife off of her mac
- The company is pretty small - like real small.  Still, would be nice to be able to support growth and not have to dump it if / when we reach 100 people.

Open to ideas.
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 From:  Harry (HARRYN)   
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41719.19 
Starting to look at the accounting software Ledger SMB.

Anyone have any experience with it, especially related to inventory of parts and assemblies?

Thanks

Harry
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 From:  Harry (HARRYN)   
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41719.20 
Gave up (at least for now)  on ledger smb.

Now looking at WebERP.

Hired a part time consultant to advise me on things like this.  We have known each other a long time, and he is a retired customer of mine. (purchasing manager of  a company I sold to 8 years ago.

Just to be clear, we had a very clean business relationship with no BS.  Very trust worthy guy, which is a big deal since anyone that you let into your business at this level basically has access to your business credit card.

 
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