We use BPM's and also Shop Warnings which you can turn the 'Alert' on.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Kevin Simon <simstrak@...> wrote:
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> You can create a BPM using ABL that reads the previous operation when
> someone is starting an activity, and throws up an exception message if the
> previous operation isn't complete. I wrote something similar to this for
> another client.
>
> I'm quite surprised your Epicor consultants couldn't help you on this. This
> is not really rocket science.
>
> Kevin Simon
>
> SimsTrak Consulting
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of
> lilj8069
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:10 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Prevent MES users from skipping operations
>
>
> Long story short. We're new to Epicor 9 and have found ourselves involved
> in
> a recall action with one of our customers. This action traced back to our
> previous system where one of our inspectors skipped a heat-treat operation
> on one of our parts. We need to come up with a way to prevent operations
> from being skipped AT ALL... and hopefully get something in place very
> quickly as the customer is coming to audit us. Any ideas? We've tried
> flagging the following operation with a first article quantity of 1 but our
> inspectors enter quantity only on operations and that bypasses the first
> article requirement entirely... We're running out of options here and as of
> yet, our onsite Epicor consultants haven't been able to help us nail it
> down...
>
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