Collecting tooling time

Aaron,

How about a Indirect labor code for each of the customers?

Eric Tolliver
IT\MIS
Continental Industries Inc.
5456 E. Mcdowell Rd.
Mesa, Az 85215
http://ciirelays.com/
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From: Aaron Hoyt [mailto:aaron@...]

Ok, I need some help again but not on reports this time.
We just had the auditor in and closed a bunch of open (open ended) tooling
jobs. The jobs were created be a collection location for labor on tooling
maintenance for customers and for tooling for jobs that don't exist yet but
will in 6 months. The auditor had a problem with all the WIP that was being
created by these open jobs. We have tried to come up with a creative
solution to this but it seems to have hit a wall. For now the work is being
done by punching in to idle time and entering the cust. name in the
comments. This is obviously not the right answer. We thought maybe we
could create new indirect labor codes for this, but we still don't have a
way to sort out what cost is for what cust. Then the simple solution was
presented (or maybe not so simple), we can just set up work centers for each
customer (only 20 or 25) and that should work. As I got into this task I
found this may not be the best way either.
The question is...We are on vantage 3 and would like to know how we should
handle data collection for emergency tool maintenance and tooling for jobs
that don't exist yet.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks in advance.

Aaron Hoyt
Ok, I need some help again but not on reports this time.
We just had the auditor in and closed a bunch of open (open ended) tooling
jobs. The jobs were created be a collection location for labor on tooling
maintenance for customers and for tooling for jobs that don't exist yet but
will in 6 months. The auditor had a problem with all the WIP that was being
created by these open jobs. We have tried to come up with a creative
solution to this but it seems to have hit a wall. For now the work is being
done by punching in to idle time and entering the cust. name in the
comments. This is obviously not the right answer. We thought maybe we
could create new indirect labor codes for this, but we still don't have a
way to sort out what cost is for what cust. Then the simple solution was
presented (or maybe not so simple), we can just set up work centers for each
customer (only 20 or 25) and that should work. As I got into this task I
found this may not be the best way either.
The question is...We are on vantage 3 and would like to know how we should
handle data collection for emergency tool maintenance and tooling for jobs
that don't exist yet.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks in advance.

Aaron Hoyt
System Administrator
Design Standards Corp.
PO Box 1620
Charlestown, NH 03603
Tel 603-826-7744
<mailto:Aaron@...>