September 19, 2006   Volume 5 - Issue 3

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In this issue:
»   News and Announcements
»   Enhancement Update
»   Tip of the Month

News & Announcements

MAC-PAC XE™ and BuyDesign® Users Gather at TDCI Customer Forum
Perspectives 2006 Attracts More People, More Companies, and More Solution Partners
Perspectives 2006 held August 20-23 in Columbus, Ohio attracted the largest attendance in six years to the annual TDCI Customer Forum. The number of companies sending people increased nearly 30% over 2005 and 50% over 2004. The number of complementary solution providers was up for the fourth straight year. The mix of end users and company executives attending the conference in addition to people with IT-related roles continued to increase as well.   More>>

New MAC-PAC XE Reporting and Configurator Solutions Previewed at Perspectives 2006
Other Enhancements and Potential for Web Services Also Discussed
Two important new MAC-PAC XE solutions were introduced at Perspectives 2006: Insights for MAC-PAC XE and BuyDesign Configurator for MAC-PAC XE. Both solutions are now under development with delivery planned for late 2006. Special pricing is available for both solutions for companies that license them by the end of 2006.   More>>

BuyDesign 5.0 Outlined and Demonstrated at Perspectives 2006
Expanding Sales and Configuration Solution Well Received by Current and Prospective Users
A significant expansion of the BuyDesign sales and configuration solution was unveiled at Perspectives 2006 along with specific plans for delivery of BuyDesign 5.0 in 2007. A multi-step interactive demonstration was run continuously in the Perspectives 2006 Solution Center to illustrate how BuyDesign now supports the entire ‘interest-to-order’ cycle for highly configured products.   More>>

Solution Partners Present, Demonstrate, and Discuss MAC-PAC XE-related Solutions at Perspectives 2006
Solution Center Featured Broad Range of Complementary Solutions and Services
Eight complementary solution/service providers exhibited and/or presented MAC-PAC XE-related solutions at Perspectives 2006.    Learn more about what they have to offer>>

Reminder – MAC-PAC XE™ User-to-User Enhancement Sharing Now Available!
At this year’s TDCI Customer Forum, there were many ‘hallway conversations’ among MAC-PAC XE users talking about enhancements or extensions they have developed that provide their companies with great benefit – a new report or query, an innovative BPM process, a simple modification, a small subsystem to address a specific need. Just about every company in the MAC-PAC XE user community has something that would be useful to others. But, beyond bumping into each other at the annual user conference, how do companies let others know about things they are willing to share, or find out what others have done?

Well… there is an easy way to do just that. It’s called the ‘Enhancement Sharing’ section of the MAC-PAC XE web site.   More>>

Genmar Holdings and CertainTeed Select BuyDesign
Genmar Holdings and CertainTeed Corporation are the latest companies to select TDCI’s BuyDesign sales and configuration solution.

Genmar Holdings, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of recreational boats and parent company of MAC-PAC XE user, Carver Boat Corporation, will implement BuyDesign for its popular Four Winns brand, followed by most of the company’s other eleven boat brands.   Read the press release>>

CertainTeed Corporation, a leading manufacturer of building products, will deploy BuyDesign as the basis for a new quoting and sales support system for use in selected window and patio door sales channels.   Read the press release>>

Enhancement and PTF Update

New MAC-PAC XE Enhancements Available

The MAC-PAC XE core application enhancements that have been completed since the last newsletter are marked with the "new" symbol.

LA09 – Allow MASIGNON to add additional libraries.

LA06 (AR, AP, GL) – Add Date/Time/Operator stamp to general ledger detail transactions.

LA03 (PO) – Improve the purchase order inquiry functionality and ease of use.

Many new MAC-PAC XE core application PTFs have been completed in the last few months. The newest PTFs are marked with the "new" symbol. The other ones also appeared in the last issue of eNews. Problems resolved are:

L1BT (AR) – Message generated incorrectly on database audit report

L1BM (DE) – MAC-PAC XE users should not get message MPW0904 batch quantity not equal to plan policy quantity.

L1BL (RM) – RM290P deleting valid records from transaction files due to various formatting issues.

L1AK (AP) – AP760A - Univoiced receipt report prints zero amt vendor totals and a/p code totals erroneously.

L1BU (AP) – Vendor Balance Field = $0 when viewing AP inquiry through GL path.

L1BE (AP) – AP inquiry allows user to access documents in restricted locations.

L1BS (AP) – Add distibution CO/LOC to error report AP180B - batch open item creation.

L1BH (AR- Critical) – On-account payment can be overriden with a corp customer on-acct payment application.

L1BN (PO) – Incorrect error message MPC6419, is displayed in PO add transaction

L1BK (IC) – The lot control type of 'P' prevents MAC-PAC from processing the MO receipt transaction for configured parts

L1BO (SF) – Crew performance report always includes first record in logical SF560AL, regardless of date range requested

L1BR (PO) – F4 "sticky cursor feature" for line number on PO inquiry not functioning correctly

L1AR (OP) – The promised ship date for a bundle part is not calculated consistently

L1BJ (ED) – Configure order flag is being incorrectly set for sales orders created by EDI

L1AW (OP) – Repositioning of multi-line screen data does not occur in OP120E when in the upper portion of the screen

L1BG (RM) – RM290P async workfile purge report printing incorrect data on report RM290

L1BB (GL) – Mass maintenance program does not create budget records correctly for CA, CP and CR codes

K2PO (PO) – ON ORDER QTY in WHSE BAL file not updated when PO line is closed automatically

L1B1 (MA) – Error MPC5043 may occur in event manager where a user is authorized to only one instance of an action code program

Full descriptions of these and other MAC-PAC XE enhancements and PTFs are available for download at www.tdci.com/macpac. Click ‘Support Login' at the top of the screen, then click either ‘Enhancements' or ‘Software Fixes' after logging in.

More enhancements and PTFs are always in the works, so check the MAC-PAC XE web site again soon!

MAC-PAC XE Online Support is available 24x7 to companies that are currently active on the TDCI MAC-PAC XE Maintenance & Support Service. 

Tip of the Month

Each MAC-PAC Tip of the Month is a selected Expert Reference Note (ERN) from the MAC-PAC ‘Helpful Hints' database in the MAC-PAC website. You can get the full text of this note or search the database by logging in to Support, then selecting ‘Helpful Hints' at www.tdci.com/macpac.

Q:   When manual journal entries are saved with F18 - Accept f/ Apprv, or F23 - Accept w/ Errors, and then the period they are entered for is closed, how do the entries get posted?

Search Helpful Hint # LSTP-55TNX8 on the MAC-PAC Web Site for full text of this tip.

Tell us your wish!

Now you can easily submit any idea you have for any MAC-PAC XE component to TDCI development. Just send an e-mail describing your idea to the appropriate e-mail address for the product you wish to see enhanced. TDCI will acknowledge receipt of your input, review it, and take it into consideration in future planning. Please be as specific as possible when describing your request – the clearer your request, the easier it will be for us to consider.

e-mail addresses for MAC-PAC XE products are as follows:
> Core MAC-PAC XE applications: macpacwish@tdci.com
> BuyDesign: buydesignwish@tdci.com
> TDCI Integration Server: iswish@tdci.com