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MM-cxxxii     Thursday

2000-05-11

The weather gods are playing in Canada. The result is that the weather doesn't change around here. Another warm night (15°C) is followed by another warm day (28°C), again followed by localized thunderstorms in the early evening.

All the maintenance programs are finished. I stopped coding at half past five. Did the last tests and posted the program to the S environment. At six (18h00) the release got frozen. Anything not finished and posted by then is being forwarded to the next patch.

In between I explained how the logistics module handles orders. Not that I know exactly how it works but simply because Theo was dropped in at the deep end. Pieter wants order-tracking in TOS, the new Web-enabled ordering system. He wants to show the client the status of the commercial order but also the status of the resulting logistic order and the subsequent purchase order.
The problem with this is that there is no simple direct relationship between these different orders. In the simplest case, a client ordering one item that is not in stock, do you get a one-on-one-on-one relation. In more typical cases a single commercial order can result in multiple logistic orders that link into new and preexisting purchase orders.
When I was working for OLI I struggled for three weeks with the order-relation program. And now Pieter wants it build in into TOS. I think that will be the best way to prevent clients from using the order-tracking function. Unless it is simplified beyond usefulness.

In the news;

Because there will be more and more pensioned people and less and less working people the paying for pensions is bound to become problematic. The government has now decided to set up a fund that should, by around 2020, be big enough to sustain payment for pensions without additional budgetary funds.

Most pensions (except for self-employed people) are paid by the government. About 5% of the income of working people is currently used to pay for the pensions. That means that now you don't pay for your own pension but for the pension of older people.