Is there any specific way to prevent issue the component at the moment of OP 10 starts?
What I’m looking for is to prevent the Picker to go to the shelves and look for the part if there is no inventory of the part. How I can do to stop him/her right before the operation starts?
Let’s say, Op 10 is set today that for the picker to enter the Job, then go to the inventory to grab the materials of the BOM, but I want to improve wasting time but flagging No Inventory (on hand) before going physically to look for the parts.
In NetSuite is called Limit to Commit. What could be the analogy in Epicor?
Thank you All.
Depending on the workflow there are a few spots to stop the picking. Will there be a printed picking list?
Is the rule any are short the quantity needed or any have none to pick?
Assuming the related operation is set you could run a bpm on start activity to sum the quantity needed versus quantity available of the parts and do a message or stop based on that.
We have a dashboard for kitting that shows jobs short or ready to kit weeks ahead, so we don’t put jobs on the floor that are short material.
Thank you so much Greg. Excellent points. I will look on the possibility to create a dashboard to prevent this happens.
In addition, I would like to create a kind of “alarm”, like a win-popup error message that tells the picker “There is no Stock on the following parts: XXX. YYY, ZZZ, Etc”. That would be ideally solution for us.
The picker can see the stock through Job Entry → Details → Material → List, but this is wasting time, we would like to earn some time and alert on the MES once the job # is entered. Is this something doable?
Thank you.
Yes, you will need to run a trace on start activity to see where you can do the calculation and popup. I do most of mine on update, but if you want it after the job is validated that should also be possible.
Thank you again Greg. Do you mean by doing it on update when is before Jobs are given to the picker?
I liked your idea of doing a dashboard to prevent send the pickers the jobs without having stock needed; but in case dashboard missed something, or any unforeseen issue, I would like to have that pop-up message alert at the Start Activity (MES) process right after the JOB# is entered, the system should calculate if there is any missing stock, then pop up the message advising the shortage and displaying the part numbers that have no stock.
I seems to be reactive method, but it might work good for us.
Download the Ice tools guide from EpicWeb. In MES start activity is where you want the message to show go. Turn on tracing and do a start activity and then enter the job number. Go back to tracing and see what methods was the last to run and post processing there you can try the message.
Amazing! Thanks so much Greg. I will follow those steps.