PO100 Multistep Job

Our Supply Chain department has several PO scenarios that they want covered in a PO100 step job. We also have had some deadlock issues lately with POLINE partly due to multiple PO100s running in recdef. The thought is to create a PO100/PO120/ED501 step job that recurs every 30mins (per the client's request). I've never created a step job with more than a dozen steps. We understand that this will increase the processing time but hope to limit the opportunity for deadlocks Are there any concerns/gotcha's that I should be aware of before attempting to deploy this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Cesar

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moellerg

Am I missing something? PO100/PO120/ED501.. seems to be 3 steps not > a dozen?
Schedule it in recdef with a freq of Half Hr. Done in 3 steps.

unknown

multiple PO100 steps for different vendors, buyers, companies, released vs released POs, multiple PO120 steps.

unknown

We just released a feature that allows you to use vendor attributes on PO100 which could reduce the number of PO100 jobs you need by allowing you to group vendors using attributes and then use the attribute as selection criteria on PO 100.

JT-403273
Available in 10.0.3
CTP-92700 for 9.0.1

unknown

I would recommend that you use a job queue (or create a new one) exclusively for this job and have it set to run only 1 job at a time, if you are concerned about deadlocks etc. Our PO100, PO120, and ED501 jobs run separately, but our PO100 has 30 steps and PO120 has 11. PO120 runs every 30 min. Multi-step and recdef are definitely the way to go!

Stace Webley

@Keith Lohkamp I am on v9.0.1.8. Does the CTP allow for manual vendor attribute lists? As in I explicetly name the vendors I want included whether it be 10 or 100? I won't be identifying the vendors with a common attribute.

unknown

no. it basically allows you to identify a list of vendors by a common attribute assigned on the vendor master. Then you can leverage that attribute as selection criteria.

you can not define the list from PO100.

StephanieD

As far as i know, any attribute list can be setup as a manual list (user specified list) or an automatic list (based on a custom or standard attribute). We have 2 automatic RQLOC lists along with a custom RQLOC attribute (values Yes or No). We use the RQLOC lists on 2 separate scheduled PO100's, one with Release=Y and one with Release=N.

Stace Webley

@Stephanie D that makes sense. I'm hoping the PO100 vendor attribute list would give me the same flexibility. I just want to be sure before we go through the trouble of installing the CTP. Would anyone that already has this option please test that to see if you can do a manual list of vendors that is greater than the 4 that is currently available on PO100? I would greatly appreciate it. I'm also interested in a screen shot of PO100 where this field would be and if there are any other changes to PO100.

StephanieD

We don't have the Vendor Attribute List option yet in PO100, but we do have it in PO120. I just setup a manual vendor list with 14 vendor numbers included, and then I was able to select it in PO120. The list setup screen is MX10.

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