[Noob] Job location and WIP

Hello y’all !

I am still learning Epicor so bear with me.

Supposing a job with two operations O1 and O2 and a material M1 linked to O1. After issuing then moving M1 and completing O1, the product of O1 is then moved to another location than the out bin of the O1 resource. It will be taken to the O2 machine when needed.

How do I do this in Epicor ? I’ve seen the WIP screens but I always get the “there is no outstanding WIP” message, it seems WIP means subassemblies and not the current job work, am I correct in that assumption ?

Thanks in advance !

There is a module that allows you to manage WIP inventory, I’m not sure which one it is, I think it is AMM. If you have that module, you can move WIP to any location. Without it, you can’t move WIP.

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Thanks for the answer !

We do have the module installed and enabled :

If that is the correct module (not positive it is), you can go to either Production Management or Material Management and under Data Collection, there should be a screen for move WIP.

you mean this screen ?

it’s in this that I got the message “there is no outstanding WIP” even though I did issue material and complete the first operation.

Did you try entering the operation sequence? I would try both of the ones on the job.

Indeed I did try both operations

I remember having issues with this at an old job. I would have to run a query against the job to see where it was located. Sometimes the transactions would be out of sequence, op 10 was completed before the material was actually issued. There were some other oddities I would run into also. Sorry I can’t be more help. But if you can create a query against PartWIP, you should be able to see where the system thinks the parts are.

Thanks a lot for the help !

I have some ideas to try out, always hope there is…

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When completing the operation O1 in End Activity, be sure to uncheck the auto-move box. I have a client who has a similar situation and we ended up creating a BPM to set the box to unchecked.

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Hello, fellow Epicor Developer!
My last job wanted to track WIP similar to this, but we found it very difficult. We elected not to track WIP across multiple ops due to difficulty presented.
In my new position, we have even more of a need to track WIP in this manner.
We will be tracking WIP via PCID, moving around our WIP stored within containers. It will leave op 10 in container X, enter op 20 in container X, be processed within op 20 in container X, and be handed off to op 30 in container X. This has presented itself as the ideal solution for our problem, however I am tracking a number of issues with Epicor in the way they handle WIP/PCID.

Please feel free to reach out to me regarding this!

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After some investigating it turns out that the WIP just wasn’t created in my scenarios. it seems that completing an operation by creating a time entry doesn’t create a partWIP entry.

It does work normally using the MES.

Why would the time entry not create WIP I have no idea.