Epicor Scheduling

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On Monday, July 21, 2014 4:00 PM, "Dennis Pagsanjan dpagsanjangsi@... [vantage]" <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


  
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Setup labor resources as named. This is setup on each employee by select
a labor resource group.  

·        
Inactivated generic labor resources. (Resource Grp Maint, Resources, details, Inactivate non-emps,
destroyed equipment and tooling and set live emps and equipment to Finite
Capacity)

·        Leave
flexo dies,cylinders, and various TOOLS  alone. 
Only inactivate if destroyed or no longer in use.
·        
Setup labor resources to finite capacity. (This can be done as one of the
last steps).·        Operators
are set to Finite Capacity.·        Inactivated
generic labor resources·        
Create new capabilities. (ProdMgmt, Sched, Setup, CapMaint DMT)·         Add employees to capabilities. (ProdMgmt, Sched, Setup, CapMaint,
Resources; manual entry)·        
Add capabilities to operations. (Operation
Maint)  (DMT)o   Change primary
defaults to new capabilities. (Sequence 50) (DMT)o   Set sequence 50 as
primary, setup and prod. (DMT)·        
Manually delete resource groups from operations.
(delete generic labor)·        
Delete all un-firm jobs. (JobEntry
manual deletion) 
        If demand on bottom is pulling job or other demand, I have to
unfirm and un-engineer it in order to delete the demand then put cursor in job
number field and click delete.

·        
Fix Open Job records.

o   Uncheck released and
engineered.   (Set both columns to FALSE
then DMT)  o   Sort run by OpSeq
and run multiple times if needed.o   Recheck released and
engineered with change descriptions.·        
Unlocked schedule for all jobs.  
(Job Entry, uncheck “Unlock” in sched priority section)The next 2 bullets were
skipped in pilot but must be done in Live·        
Fix Open Quotes·        
Fix Part MOMs ·        
Set equipment resources to finite. (This can be done as one of the last
steps).  (Resource Grp entry)·        
Setup a process set to run nightly. 1st – Calculate Global
Scheduling Order, 2nd – Global Scheduling.  (Process
Set Maint)

 



On Monday, July 21, 2014 2:35 PM, "'Reddy, Manasa' manasa.reddy@… [vantage]" <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:



 

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I think you are wrong on this….however I need to make sure I understand what you are asking.
 
Can the system schedule more than one resource?  Yes it can…how?  It depends.  If you are trying to schedule a machine and a person, then this is two resources and you have to have advanced scheduling to do this.
 
If you are trying to get the system to look at multiple resources and have it schedule the one that is available sooner than later?  Yes you can do this and that is the point on capability.  It depends on how you set up the capability.  But that is where my weakness is…on set up.  But I know you can do it.
 
 
 
M. Manasa Reddy
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:29 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling
 
 
My recollection, and anyone else jump in if Epicor addressed this since early 9, is that it won't honor more than one finitely controlled scheduled resource requirement per operation. You can put all the scheduled resources you want and it will schedule them, but only the first location controlled scheduling detail will get finitely controlled. This I believe has been the major downfall of the scheduling system is to truly control man and machine along with the capabilities function and cross multiple calendars as well... I would do some extensive testing in a non-production environment to verify this of course.

Rob Bucek
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:06 PM
To: vantage
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling

Epicor 9.05.702a Progress 64bit

I am currently working on utilizing the Scheduling functionality for Epicor. We have installed Epicor over 2 years ago and have been doing the scheduling manually with no constraints and resource groups set to infinite instead of finite. I am about to change all of this by adding the capabilities layer to the system and adding actual production employees to capabilities and setting them all to finite. I will also be setting all the equipment to finite as well and then add these capabilities to operations. My question for everybody is: Is this the best way to add constraints to the scheduling system? Is anybody else out there doing things differently in terms of setting up scheduling? If so, how are you doing it and why is this way working out better for you as apposed to other plans.

Thanks

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Does anyone have a list of things to check to ensure scheduling runs properly?

So far I have:
1) Capacities
2) Work centers/resources
3) Resource groups
4) Infinite/finite
5) Lead times
6) Forward, Backward or both
7) Crew size
8) Setup & Run times - could look at history to update
9) Calendar

Feedback from anyone who has gotten scheduling fully running on 8 or 9 would be appreciated.

Any tips, hints or gotchas would be very helpful.

Thank you very much.
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Jim,



We've recently gone live on 9.05 and are now working through our data to
make use of scheduling.



I was caught out today by the finite horizon option in the resource
group so might be worth adding a note to check this when you look at
finite scheduling.



Regards

Chris



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of jim_chance
Sent: 01 June 2011 12:47
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling





Does anyone have a list of things to check to ensure scheduling runs
properly?

So far I have:
1) Capacities
2) Work centers/resources
3) Resource groups
4) Infinite/finite
5) Lead times
6) Forward, Backward or both
7) Crew size
8) Setup & Run times - could look at history to update
9) Calendar

Feedback from anyone who has gotten scheduling fully running on 8 or 9
would be appreciated.

Any tips, hints or gotchas would be very helpful.

Thank you very much.




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To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 8:45:29 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling

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Jim,

We've recently gone live on 9.05 and are now working through our data to
make use of scheduling.

I was caught out today by the finite horizon option in the resource
group so might be worth adding a note to check this when you look at
finite scheduling.

Regards

Chris

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of jim_chance
Sent: 01 June 2011 12:47
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling

Does anyone have a list of things to check to ensure scheduling runs
properly?

So far I have:
1) Capacities
2) Work centers/resources
3) Resource groups
4) Infinite/finite
5) Lead times
6) Forward, Backward or both
7) Crew size
8) Setup & Run times - could look at history to update
9) Calendar

Feedback from anyone who has gotten scheduling fully running on 8 or 9
would be appreciated.

Any tips, hints or gotchas would be very helpful.

Thank you very much.

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Epicor 9.05.702a Progress 64bit
 
I am currently working on utilizing the Scheduling functionality for Epicor.  We have installed Epicor over 2 years ago and have been doing the scheduling manually with no constraints and resource groups set to infinite instead of finite.  I am about to change all of this by adding the capabilities layer to the system and adding actual production employees to capabilities and setting them all to finite.  I will also be setting all the equipment to finite as well and then add these capabilities to operations.  My question for everybody is: Is this the best way to add constraints to the scheduling system?  Is anybody else out there doing things differently in terms of setting up scheduling?  If so, how are you doing it and why is this way working out better for you as apposed to other plans.
 
Thanks
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My recollection, and anyone else jump in if Epicor addressed this since early 9, is that it won't honor more than one finitely controlled scheduled resource requirement per operation. You can put all the scheduled resources you want and it will schedule them, but only the first location controlled scheduling detail will get finitely controlled. This I believe has been the major downfall of the scheduling system is to truly control man and machine along with the capabilities function and cross multiple calendars as well... I would do some extensive testing in a non-production environment to verify this of course.

Rob Bucek
Production Control Manager
PH: (715) 284-5376 ext 311
Mobile: (715)896-3119
FAX: (715)284-4084
[cid:1.234354861@...]<http://www.dsmfg.com/>
(Click the logo to view our site)<http://www.dsmfg.com/>

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:06 PM
To: vantage
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling


Epicor 9.05.702a Progress 64bit

I am currently working on utilizing the Scheduling functionality for Epicor. We have installed Epicor over 2 years ago and have been doing the scheduling manually with no constraints and resource groups set to infinite instead of finite. I am about to change all of this by adding the capabilities layer to the system and adding actual production employees to capabilities and setting them all to finite. I will also be setting all the equipment to finite as well and then add these capabilities to operations. My question for everybody is: Is this the best way to add constraints to the scheduling system? Is anybody else out there doing things differently in terms of setting up scheduling? If so, how are you doing it and why is this way working out better for you as apposed to other plans.

Thanks



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I think you are wrong on this….however I need to make sure I understand what you are asking.

 

Can the system schedule more than one resource?  Yes it can…how?  It depends.  If you are trying to schedule a machine and a person, then this is two resources and you have to have advanced scheduling to do this.

 

If you are trying to get the system to look at multiple resources and have it schedule the one that is available sooner than later?  Yes you can do this and that is the point on capability.  It depends on how you set up the capability.  But that is where my weakness is…on set up.  But I know you can do it.

 

 

 

M. Manasa Reddy

manasa.reddy@...

281-994-3483 [d]  |  773-401-4126 [m]

 

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:29 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling

 

 

My recollection, and anyone else jump in if Epicor addressed this since early 9, is that it won't honor more than one finitely controlled scheduled resource requirement per operation. You can put all the scheduled resources you want and it will schedule them, but only the first location controlled scheduling detail will get finitely controlled. This I believe has been the major downfall of the scheduling system is to truly control man and machine along with the capabilities function and cross multiple calendars as well... I would do some extensive testing in a non-production environment to verify this of course.

Rob Bucek
Production Control Manager
PH: (715) 284-5376 ext 311
Mobile: (715)896-3119
FAX: (715)284-4084
[cid:1.234354861@...]<http://www.dsmfg.com/>
(Click the logo to view our site)<http://www.dsmfg.com/>

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:06 PM
To: vantage
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling

Epicor 9.05.702a Progress 64bit

I am currently working on utilizing the Scheduling functionality for Epicor. We have installed Epicor over 2 years ago and have been doing the scheduling manually with no constraints and resource groups set to infinite instead of finite. I am about to change all of this by adding the capabilities layer to the system and adding actual production employees to capabilities and setting them all to finite. I will also be setting all the equipment to finite as well and then add these capabilities to operations. My question for everybody is: Is this the best way to add constraints to the scheduling system? Is anybody else out there doing things differently in terms of setting up scheduling? If so, how are you doing it and why is this way working out better for you as apposed to other plans.

Thanks

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FYI - Here is my plan of action notes for implementing Scheduling which I have done in a Test environment
 

·        
Setup labor resources as named. This is setup on each employee by select
a labor resource group.  

·        
Inactivated generic labor resources. (Resource Grp Maint, Resources, details, Inactivate non-emps,
destroyed equipment and tooling and set live emps and equipment to Finite
Capacity)

·        Leave
flexo dies,cylinders, and various TOOLS  alone. 
Only inactivate if destroyed or no longer in use.
·        
Setup labor resources to finite capacity. (This can be done as one of the
last steps).·        Operators
are set to Finite Capacity.·        Inactivated
generic labor resources·        
Create new capabilities. (ProdMgmt, Sched, Setup, CapMaint DMT)·         Add employees to capabilities. (ProdMgmt, Sched, Setup, CapMaint,
Resources; manual entry)·        
Add capabilities to operations. (Operation
Maint)  (DMT)o   Change primary
defaults to new capabilities. (Sequence 50) (DMT)o   Set sequence 50 as
primary, setup and prod. (DMT)·        
Manually delete resource groups from operations.
(delete generic labor)·        
Delete all un-firm jobs. (JobEntry
manual deletion) 
        If demand on bottom is pulling job or other demand, I have to
unfirm and un-engineer it in order to delete the demand then put cursor in job
number field and click delete.

·        
Fix Open Job records.

o   Uncheck released and
engineered.   (Set both columns to FALSE
then DMT)  o   Sort run by OpSeq
and run multiple times if needed.o   Recheck released and
engineered with change descriptions.·        
Unlocked schedule for all jobs.  
(Job Entry, uncheck “Unlock” in sched priority section)The next 2 bullets were
skipped in pilot but must be done in Live·        
Fix Open Quotes·        
Fix Part MOMs ·        
Set equipment resources to finite. (This can be done as one of the last
steps).  (Resource Grp entry)·        
Setup a process set to run nightly. 1st – Calculate Global
Scheduling Order, 2nd – Global Scheduling.  (Process
Set Maint)

 



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I think you are wrong on this….however I need to make sure I understand what you are asking.
 
Can the system schedule more than one resource?  Yes it can…how?  It depends.  If you are trying to schedule a machine and a person, then this is two resources and you have to have advanced scheduling to do this.
 
If you are trying to get the system to look at multiple resources and have it schedule the one that is available sooner than later?  Yes you can do this and that is the point on capability.  It depends on how you set up the capability.  But that is where my weakness is…on set up.  But I know you can do it.
 
 
 
M. Manasa Reddy
manasa.reddy@...
281-994-3483 [d]  |  773-401-4126 [m]
 
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:29 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling
 
 
My recollection, and anyone else jump in if Epicor addressed this since early 9, is that it won't honor more than one finitely controlled scheduled resource requirement per operation. You can put all the scheduled resources you want and it will schedule them, but only the first location controlled scheduling detail will get finitely controlled. This I believe has been the major downfall of the scheduling system is to truly control man and machine along with the capabilities function and cross multiple calendars as well... I would do some extensive testing in a non-production environment to verify this of course.

Rob Bucek
Production Control Manager
PH: (715) 284-5376 ext 311
Mobile: (715)896-3119
FAX: (715)284-4084
[cid:1.234354861@...]<http://www.dsmfg.com/>
(Click the logo to view our site)<http://www.dsmfg.com/>

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:06 PM
To: vantage
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor Scheduling

Epicor 9.05.702a Progress 64bit

I am currently working on utilizing the Scheduling functionality for Epicor. We have installed Epicor over 2 years ago and have been doing the scheduling manually with no constraints and resource groups set to infinite instead of finite. I am about to change all of this by adding the capabilities layer to the system and adding actual production employees to capabilities and setting them all to finite. I will also be setting all the equipment to finite as well and then add these capabilities to operations. My question for everybody is: Is this the best way to add constraints to the scheduling system? Is anybody else out there doing things differently in terms of setting up scheduling? If so, how are you doing it and why is this way working out better for you as apposed to other plans.

Thanks

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