Is this a permanent need or just an attempt to monopolize system features to develop some time studies?
If permanent need, see if PartPlant defined Kit or Receive time will somehow give you the desired results. (I'm not convinced they will, but the other option - a truck load operation - clearly isn't either.)
If it is a short term attempt to use the system as a time study tool, abandon it. Get out there with a clipboard and a stop watch for a day or two and do a real time study.
Rob
If permanent need, see if PartPlant defined Kit or Receive time will somehow give you the desired results. (I'm not convinced they will, but the other option - a truck load operation - clearly isn't either.)
If it is a short term attempt to use the system as a time study tool, abandon it. Get out there with a clipboard and a stop watch for a day or two and do a real time study.
Rob
--- On Mon, 12/8/08, gmack110256 <genemack@...> wrote:
From: gmack110256 <genemack@...>
Subject: [Vantage] Track Truck loading time
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 4:09 PM
Looking for a little advice here. We have a product line that contains
items which are both mfg. parts to stock and made to order mfg. parts.
I know that you can add an operation to the part revison that will
allow for "packing time" which could account for the time spent
loading finished parts on a truck for shipping to the customer. Does
anyone have a setup that would allow us to track the loading time for
the stock items that go with an order.
Some of our parts are sent out in a Sales Kit and some are not. It
seems that if I tie a "packing operation" to the stcok parts then we
can never close a production job on them until they are all pulled
from stock.
Any suggestions from the group would be helpful.
Thanks
Gene