We have all of our operations setup to report time + qty. We would like to set a few operations to time + backflush Qty. I also have a few I would like to set to straight backflush.
I believe I would need to update the operation at each existing open job, then make the change at the resource group level. Has anyone else moved from one time reporting method to another in production?
I have the DMT, so I may use that to make the updates. I am curious if you all have any advice on this. Are there any gotchyas to look out for?
Thanks!
Nate
Yes! If material has already been issued and you change to backflush, you are risking doubling the material as the system will backflush the full quantity. Be careful and the best advice I can give is to change the methods and let that filter through.
So, you are suggesting changing the method master, so that all future jobs will be correct. Then let the older incorrect jobs naturally close out. Is that right?
Good point about the issued material. That does make it tricky.
@NateS Do you have materials with a lot of different related operations? You can precheck issued complete and not change ops that have outstanding materials.
I have an job dashboard and we flip the LaborEntryMethod on the fly a lot, but 99% of our materials is on the kit step which never gets changed.
You cannot mark a part as Backflush on a method. That flag comes from the part. If the part is marked as Backflush, once the job is created that box will check for those parts.
If you mark the parts as backflush now, that will not impact the open jobs (firm or unfirm) so you can continue with the jobs as is, but when new jobs are created the backflush will check.
@CarlaBee He is thinking about changing JobOper LaborEntryMethod and John was warning about backflushed parts being related that ha already been manually issued.
What do you mean by prechecking issue complete? Is this on the job or methods? How does that work?
We currently use backflush and the results are spotty at best. In a perfect world operators would labor claim consistently but that is not where we are right now. I do believe in some instances we have made the process more difficult than necessary so I would like to simplify what we can.
In my case we can have backflush materials added to a job after the related operation has already been completed (or maybe they just did not backflush), so on start activity of final audit if there are any backflush materials that have not been issued complete I move the related operation to final audit, so when quantities are moved there the backflush will happen.
I also scoop up any labor not claimed when the final quantity is completed, so no times goes unearned.