I’m working in MES and dealing with WIP movement for subassemblies that are completed and moved to an in-process staging bin (e.g., WeldIn) using the Material Queue. Everything works fine up to that point — I complete the op, process the material to the correct bin via the queue.
However, if I later realize that the bin destination needs to change (say, from Staging to 1-A), I run into a wall. Epicor won’t let me move that WIP using “Move WIP” — I get the common error:
There is no outstanding WIP balance for this operation matching the information entered.
What’s worse is that before processing from the material queue, I can edit the destination bin. But once it’s processed, that WIP is essentially locked to that bin — even though it’s clearly still WIP (not received to inventory, not completed to stock).
Questions:
Is there a clean way to move WIP that’s already been processed from the material queue, without needing to receive to inventory or complete another operation?
Is there a setting or process that allows more flexible WIP-to-bin movement mid-job (for example, between staging bins like WeldIn → WeldStaging)?
Has anyone built a workaround or dashboard that allows this without jumping through job/asm/op hoops every time?
I understand Epicor wants to maintain traceability, but this seems unnecessarily rigid for a real-world staging process that happens all the time.
interestingly i am looking at adding move WIP functionality to our solution, and from a quick look i have had, can you not achieve this by creating another move WIP request?
We have fully indented bill of materials. Using a move material request on a subassembly that contains between 3 and 10 materials would be cumbersome. We’d like to be able to process the full assembly (that isn’t started yet) with the “Move WIP” option but it doesn’t seem to work correctly.
This is what I had in mind:
Subassemblies’ materials land in WIP location > Move WIP Request > Subassembly / Op from Bin A to Bin B > Process in Material Queue
I’m having the same issues. I’m trying to move the WIP Subassembly after completing the last operation and am receiving the error “There is no outstanding WIP balance for this operation.” Is it possible that this is a bug or am I missing something? I have verified that there is a PartWIP record for this subassembly.
Still testing, but I believe you have to go up a level. For example, you just completed Asm Seq 28, which lies within Asm Seq 7. Use Move WIP on Asm Seq 7’s operation that’s related. This worked for me when I was trying to move Asm Seq 28 to a different location.
Andy, I overlooked this comment for awhile, but oddly enough, if you create a move WIP request, then process it with the material queue it works. Unfortunately I don’t see a way to move the WIP items without first creating a move WIP request.
