Conference acadmy::tpas_notes

19.0. "GIA Issues" by GIAMEM::RWBROWN () Fri Oct 23 1992 14:22

	The following are issues raised by GIA sites around the implementation
	of TPAS.  Please feel free to respond on any issues that may affect
	your relationship with the GIA sites.  The GIA sites planning to
	implement TPAS on or about Jan 93 are TAO/ZGO/HKO/GYT/DEK/JPC

	1) Procurement Centers:
	   JPC: What incentive is there for the customer to place an order
		with the lowest cost supplier if procurement material is 
		priced at standard instead of actual?
		For JPC price will be set at time of order receipt as opposed
		to time of shipment. This is because 20-30% of JPC parts 
		require an export license from MITI which takes several
		weeks to obtain, therefore the price cannot be changed
		after the application has been made.
	   APC: Aust. customs 'frowns' upon exports at a price different
		from actual cost on procurement parts if STD + UPLIFT < ACTUAL

	2) ZGO: Indicates that software parts not only have different stds by
		rev but also different MLPs by rev which is not reflected in
		APPIX, therefore they reason that software parts will not be
		subject to TPAS pricing rules.  

	3) ALL: How will reconciliation be done?
		How will the receiving site verify the invoice price?
		In order for receiving site to validate TPAS price on invoice
		they need to call TPAS providing the ACTUAL SHIP DATE (or 
		INVOICE DATE) but TPAS doesn't curently allow for this, nor
		does APPIX store info by effective date.

	4) ALL: Question on partial shipments:
		In MAXCIM, once a shipment against a line item is made the
		UNIT PRICE info cannot be changed - therefore the TPAS price 
		is frozen on a line after 1st ship is made (i.e if qty = 100 
		and 1 piece ships then the TPAS price for the 1 piece is 
		frozen for the balance of 99 regardless of when they ship)
		How does this assumption affect other sites?

	5) All: GIA sites only print 2 decimals in TOTAL MTP so we need clarify 
		and agree on rounding rules (i.e. UNIT MTP * QTY then round)

	6) SPR: How to solve problem in Phase 1 whereby the same part ships
		from or is received into both MFG and SALES - Sales has their
		own MLP so if MFG uses TPAS and comes up with a different
		price then AUST. customs will be upset