We seem to have an ongoing debate and no one has a logical answer. I’m hoping someone here may have an answer. We manufacture R&D level machine parts. We have operations for programmers and operations for machine centers, QA, etc. The programmers only make 1 program, so they want to mark their lines Qty 1, completed. Some people are insisting this messes up WIP, so they need to mark the full demand quantity instead. So if you are making 1 program to support manufacturing 10 pieces, then the qty should be 10. Is there a right or wrong way? Does it matter if the program lines are qty 1 but we make 10 pieces in later operations? This strikes me as a way of manipulating WIP calculations, but I might be overthinking it.
To the best of my knowledge, the quantity reported on any operation BESIDES the last one is NOT used by Epicor for any operational or financial recording purposes. If you report less than the Production Quantity and have Shop Warnings turned on, you’ll get the warning message “a previous operation is not completed” for every subsequent “Start Activity” unless you turn it off.
If having the programmers report quantity of 1 complete, what outcome occurs? Set up a testing scenario and run an entire job through from start to finish. Check all the costing and quantity records both during and after the job closes, and then run it again with them reporting the actual production quantity. Is there a difference? If so, what its the difference and who does that difference matter to?
Personally, I don’t think there will be a difference.
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