Both of those reports aren't short of their issues.. My biggest problem
with Shop load is that its progress...you cant do jack with it...audit,
tweak, export, its window gloss... It is rather critical where you pick
your cut off date with shop load... did you have the check box first
bucket infinite checked or unchecked? Checked I believe it rolls up all
past due hours into the first bucket. Shop load the cut off date looks
forward, priority dispatch looks backwards...so Im not sure you could
ever get a true comparison.
Also shop load has the ability to look in weekly or daily
buckets...priority dispatch shows in daily buckets...
The dates you picked would never match up because you told shop load to
show you everything due to start on or after 10/22 and priority dispatch
to show you everything due to start on or before 10/22....
My advice would be to look at a 'week' and by that just focus on Monday
thru Friday (because you cant get seven buckets out of shop load). In
shop load make your cut off date 10/18, and change your units to days,
do not check summary (you'll want to compare job to job), set your first
bucket to infinite (it will roll up anything due on or before the 18th)
On your priority dispatch you'll want to pick operations due on or
before 10/24.
Oh yeah..I almost forgot...those genious' at Epicor never thought that
grouping operations by start date on a resource group might be an useful
thing, so good luck picking through the mess if you haven't completely
revamped that report so someone can actually make sense out of it on the
floor!!
In short for us the only thing shop load is useful at all for is a quick
peek by week buckets to look for work center overloads as we finitely
control 80% of our resources. The priority Dispatch report has been
thoroughly raped and no longer resembles its original self and we use
that intensively on a daily basis for shop floor execution as well as
having a BAQ dashboard version of it that employees call up from their
MES stations..
Sorry for the rant..
Rob Bucek
Manufacturing Engineer
PH: (715) 284-5376 ext 3111
FAX: (715)284-4084
<http://www.dsmfg.com/>
(Click the logo to view our site) <http://www.dsmfg.com/>
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of jplehr
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:13 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Priority Dispatch Report vs Shop Load Report
Vantage 8.03.408A
I am comparing numbers between these two reports. When looking at 1
Resource Group through the same date range I can't seem to get them to
match.
Shop Load was run with a Cut Off Date of 10.22.09; Units "Week";
Interval "1"; First Bucket is Infinite "True" and for 1 Resource Group.
Priority Dispatch was run with Operations Due to Start On or Before
10.22.09 and same Resource Group.
I am then comparing line by line. First line of Shop Load shows 27.16
hours and when I find that same item on the Priority Dispatch I show
1.83 hours. Next line of Shop Load shows 14.17 and the Priority Dispatch
shows 1.75.
Anyone else been down this road? Any insight would be great.
Jeff
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with Shop load is that its progress...you cant do jack with it...audit,
tweak, export, its window gloss... It is rather critical where you pick
your cut off date with shop load... did you have the check box first
bucket infinite checked or unchecked? Checked I believe it rolls up all
past due hours into the first bucket. Shop load the cut off date looks
forward, priority dispatch looks backwards...so Im not sure you could
ever get a true comparison.
Also shop load has the ability to look in weekly or daily
buckets...priority dispatch shows in daily buckets...
The dates you picked would never match up because you told shop load to
show you everything due to start on or after 10/22 and priority dispatch
to show you everything due to start on or before 10/22....
My advice would be to look at a 'week' and by that just focus on Monday
thru Friday (because you cant get seven buckets out of shop load). In
shop load make your cut off date 10/18, and change your units to days,
do not check summary (you'll want to compare job to job), set your first
bucket to infinite (it will roll up anything due on or before the 18th)
On your priority dispatch you'll want to pick operations due on or
before 10/24.
Oh yeah..I almost forgot...those genious' at Epicor never thought that
grouping operations by start date on a resource group might be an useful
thing, so good luck picking through the mess if you haven't completely
revamped that report so someone can actually make sense out of it on the
floor!!
In short for us the only thing shop load is useful at all for is a quick
peek by week buckets to look for work center overloads as we finitely
control 80% of our resources. The priority Dispatch report has been
thoroughly raped and no longer resembles its original self and we use
that intensively on a daily basis for shop floor execution as well as
having a BAQ dashboard version of it that employees call up from their
MES stations..
Sorry for the rant..
Rob Bucek
Manufacturing Engineer
PH: (715) 284-5376 ext 3111
FAX: (715)284-4084
<http://www.dsmfg.com/>
(Click the logo to view our site) <http://www.dsmfg.com/>
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of jplehr
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:13 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Priority Dispatch Report vs Shop Load Report
Vantage 8.03.408A
I am comparing numbers between these two reports. When looking at 1
Resource Group through the same date range I can't seem to get them to
match.
Shop Load was run with a Cut Off Date of 10.22.09; Units "Week";
Interval "1"; First Bucket is Infinite "True" and for 1 Resource Group.
Priority Dispatch was run with Operations Due to Start On or Before
10.22.09 and same Resource Group.
I am then comparing line by line. First line of Shop Load shows 27.16
hours and when I find that same item on the Priority Dispatch I show
1.83 hours. Next line of Shop Load shows 14.17 and the Priority Dispatch
shows 1.75.
Anyone else been down this road? Any insight would be great.
Jeff
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