We have a part that has a UOM of inches. In Time Phase the balance shown is inches. The required quantity shown in Time Phase is showing it as feet. The adjusted balance is subtracting the feet from the inches without a conversion. ex. 7000" balance-1.3’required=6998.7"balance. The job and part have inches as the UOM. How is the required quantity being converted and why will it not use that conversion when adjusting the balance.
We are new to Epicor, from Vantage 6.1, and may be processing something wrong but I cannot figure out how this is happening.
What is the unit of measure set up in the job for this material? Feet or inches? Is there a conversion set up on the UOM of 1 ft. = 12 in.? Screen shots of the job and the part would help as well as Time Phase.
The job and part are both set up in inches. The UOM class base is inches with a conversion for feet. But feet is not used in the job or the part table for this part.
Part table:
Job material:
Time Phase:
Now that you point that out it does appear the 1.295 is the difference which is a scrap factor by percentage. The job material is coming from inventory. Why would it only show the required quantity of the scrap factor vs. 38.295? It is not checked for a fixed quantity.
Checking the transactions they did! So that is only showing the amount expected with the scrap included because the operator only issued the BOM amount instead of actual? That makes sense. This was making me pull out what little hair I have left.
Thank you! That was much simpler than I anticipated.
Also, I think there’s a way that if an operation is marked, it will automatically mark the material as “Issued Complete”. This would then be excluded from Time Phase. Check the Job Tracker.
We have attachments to the job with our old paper based BOM documents in pdf format. Many of the older employees reference this document and enter the amount listed. Engineering designs by actual dimension without scrap and that is where the document is created. In addition the employee entering the data recorded the quantity completed wrong which did not complete the operation. The only way I can think of off hand to clear the material with an operation completion is to backflush the material.
Makes sense, and glad you worked it out. We backflush everything here, but it really is not the best way, and I think most companies do manually issue parts.
