Hey everyone,
I'm trying to get scheduling up and running at our facility and having a terrible time trying to do so. We're a construction/manufacturing company. So each of our projects has a lot of jobs, and we have some projects that have jobs which we're not interested in scheduling, they are just used for costing purposes. If anyone can help with any of the questions below that would be awesome:
1. Is there a way to prevent a job from being scheduled, even if it is engineered and released?
2. Our jobs typically have a lot of material on them and this causes everything in the scheduling board to move incredibly slow. Is there a way to create a what if schedule and then update all the material due dates when the changes are accepted?
3. Epicor is way overloading some employees. I've tried finite and infinite scheduling, but I keep having problems both ways. Does anyone have tips on how to schedule and load employees and how to deal with rapid changes in scheduling? In our business jobs, push, get put on hold, move up all the time and I'm not sure how to keep things current in Epicor.
4. Does you company have a person dedicated to scheduling in Epicor?
Thanks in advance.
-Bobby
First, have you ever looked at the scheduling tech guide…..it will tell you what each and every field affects scheduling and how it affects as well. A very daunting book.
Second, for your business model you better have a dedicated person in scheduling. Look at what you just mentioned, every job goes through this, and you know how many open jobs you have.
Third, There is a what if in scheduling, but you may or may not like it. But it does allow you to see what could happen in your schedule before you commit the changes. It is under the job scheduling board under actions if I remember correctly.
Forth, play with all of this in your test environment…..
Manasa
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Subject: [Vantage] 905.702 Scheduling Tips and Tricks
Hey everyone,
I'm trying to get scheduling up and running at our facility and having a terrible time trying to do so. We're a construction/manufacturing company. So each of our projects has a lot of jobs, and we have some projects that have jobs which we're not interested in scheduling, they are just used for costing purposes. If anyone can help with any of the questions below that would be awesome:
1. Is there a way to prevent a job from being scheduled, even if it is engineered and released?
2. Our jobs typically have a lot of material on them and this causes everything in the scheduling board to move incredibly slow. Is there a way to create a what if schedule and then update all the material due dates when the changes are accepted?
3. Epicor is way overloading some employees. I've tried finite and infinite scheduling, but I keep having problems both ways. Does anyone have tips on how to schedule and load employees and how to deal with rapid changes in scheduling? In our business jobs, push, get put on hold, move up all the time and I'm not sure how to keep things current in Epicor.
4. Does you company have a person dedicated to scheduling in Epicor?
Thanks in advance.
-Bobby
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