Well, you've certainly found a lot of issues. It's been my opinion, with Asset Management, that the full blown use of the application is not really utilized extensively and that may contribute to the excessive amount of problems with it. While Asset is used as a front end to CIs, I'm not convinced that a lot of companies use it for a true Purchasing/Receiving application in conjunction with financials.
At any rate, I tend to submit the problems as issues and then fix them on the current system. I'm not sure if you're looking for the fixes to these issues as I haven't gotten through all of them yet, or if you were just looking for opinions on the Console's integrity... JR -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jiri Pospisil Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Purchasing Console - anybody using it? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please Read The Disclaimer At The Bottom Of This Email ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ JR, I agree that the opening of the Database form instead of supplier search is rather embarrassing. There is, however, more issues. It would be interesting to see how you tackled those. In terms of other technical issues, I cannot see any notifications being generated for the requisition assignee or for approvers. If different approvers need to be added manually, there seems to be no way to do it. All currency fields default to USD and there is no way to re-configure this apart from going through all fields in admin tool and changing the default setting. Not good when running business outside of US. Fields at the bottom of the Purchasing Console do not seem to always display all information from the highlighted entry, i.e. Requested By field is blank even when the highlighted requisition has the field populated. Relationship between requisition and purchase order is not quite obvious and easily to be found. When creating configuration, new change request gets generated automatically. This seems unnecessary and there does not seem to be a way to re-configure this behaviour (apart from finding the offending workflow and turning it off). When trying to take an item from inventory (Reserve/Use Inventory button) with server submitter mode set to Locked, I am getting error message about not being allowed to change the Submitter field. There is not an easy way for the purchasing user to create new supplier entry with all relevant details, i.e. straight from purchasing console or line item. In terms of access to the console, the user must have Purchasing User privilege, which seems to give access to all requisitions and orders in the system. As we currently have our staff raising their own purchase requests, it would not be desirable that everybody can see anybody else's orders. If we grant access to purchasing team only, they would see it as a step back as they would have to start submitting all purchase requisitions themselves on behalf of people. Regards Jiri -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Janie Sent: 09 July 2008 14:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Purchasing Console - anybody using it? There are some issues with it. The primary glaring one is the Supplier field that opens the BMC.Core Database form in the background when hitting enter on the Purchase Line Item Supplier field. You have to add the AST:PurchaseLineItem form to an Active Link Guide. Is there anything else in particular that your finding to be a problem? JR -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jiri Pospisil Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Purchasing Console - anybody using it? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please Read The Disclaimer At The Bottom Of This Email ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi all, I was wondering if anybody is actually using the Purchasing Console of the Asset Management module in production. I had a brief look and when trying to use the tool I hit quite few issues, which made me wonder if this version was some kind of rushed release. We are on Asset Management 7.0.2, patch 005. I would be interested to hear from anybody who has any experience with this module. 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