9.05.700B2 on Production Server
9.05.700C on Test Server
Progress
-Rick Bird
IT Software Administrator
Rowmark, LLC.
9.05.700B2
9.05.700C on Test Server
Progress
-Rick Bird
IT Software Administrator
Rowmark, LLC.
9.05.700B2
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Steve_E" <vantage@...> wrote:
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> Rick,
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> What patch level are you on? Progress or Sql?
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> Steve
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> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> that_guyy
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:46 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Accumulated Lead Time
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> Yes I have, but if you don't understand how it comes to the result it can be
> confusing. You will see that this is only valuable for longer lead times.
> For instance, the difference between manufacturing a Car Seat vs
> manufacturing a Car. The Car Seat probably has a cumulative time of <1 day,
> a car from start to finish probably has several days.
> Basically when it runs the calculation it is running a mini MRP and it seems
> to be following the same planning rules that would apply to MRP, such as Min
> Lot Size. This can be confusing if you don't realize that is what it is
> doing. For instance the Lead Time to Manufacture one Car Seat would be less
> than a day, so the MFG Lead Time would be 0. But to manufacture 5000 car
> seats could be 4 days, so the MFG Lead Time would come out to 4. In that
> example the Min lot size for the car seat was set to 5000.
> The other complaint I have heard is that the time is expressed in whole
> days, so anything less than a day gives 0, which depending on what you want
> to use the data for may not be valid.
> If this option doesn't seem like it will work for you, and you would put
> together a BAQ to do the calculation, you could use the manual values to
> store your results for easy access for Dashboards and reports so you
> wouldn't have to have a BAQ recalculate the values for each Dashboard
> Refresh or Report generation.
>
> Speaking of BAQ's, those have really come a long way from 8.03, so explore
> that and look at the Summary Table and Calculated Field options that are
> available now... I would imagine writing a BAQ for what you are after, could
> be fairly easy.
>
> -Rick Bird
> IT Software Administrator
> Rowmark, LLC.
>
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "Steve_E" <vantage@> wrote:
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> > Sorry should have said Have you verified the data that MFG lead Time
> > Calculation produces?
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> > Steve
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> > From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
> Behalf Of
> > Steve_E
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:19 AM
> > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Accumulated Lead Time
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> > Rick,
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> > I am testing this on version 700C and one of the first thing I found is
> that
> > the information in the MRP Technical reference Guide list multiple filters
> > that can be applied but when you go to the process you only has Include
> > subassemblies.
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> > How you verified the data the MFG lead Time Calculation produces ?
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> > Thanks
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> > Steve
> >
> > From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
> > Behalf Of
> > that_guyy
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:23 AM
> > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Vantage] Re: Accumulated Lead Time
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> > Steve,
> > Moving to 9.05.700 from 8.03 has a lot of changes, pay attention to UOM's
> > and make sure you get them setup right the first time.
> > On page 103 of the 9.05.700 MRP Technical Reference Guide is a full
> > description of the MFG Lead Time Calculation and how it's used. Outside of
> > that, I find it to be a very handy piece of data to reference or bring
> into
> > a dashboard.
> > When you run the calculation you can pick which Part Class/Part/Plant for
> it
> > to calculate for. It's not something you would run all the time, just once
> > initially, and then after that whenever a Method would change or maybe
> once
> > a year.
> >
> > Rick Bird
> > IT Software Administrator
> > Rowmark, LLC.
> >
> > --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> > "Steve_E" <vantage@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry we are on version 8.03.408a. We just got test version of 9.05.700
> > > running over the weekend and I did find the mfg lead time calculation
> > > process. Just doing review to see if this impacts any other process when
> > > run.
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> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
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> > >
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
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> > <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
> > Behalf Of
> > > that_guyy
> > > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 4:18 PM
> > > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Subject: [Vantage] Re: Accumulated Lead Time
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> > > Steve,
> > > What version of Epicor are you on?
> > > In either 9.04 or 9.05 this functionality was added to the application
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> > > stored in a field on the PartPlant table. It is done by running the Mfg
> > Lead
> > > Time Calculation, here is the Main Menu Path: Production
> > > Management>Engineering>General Operations>Mfg Lead Time Calculation
> > > You need the Engineering module.
> > >
> > > -Rick Bird
> > > IT Software Administrator
> > > Rowmark, LLC.
> > >
> > > --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> > > "Steve_E" <vantage@> wrote:
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> > > > Has anyone put together a BAQ or Crystal report to give you an
> > accumulated
> > > > lead time for a BOM?
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