I am trying to determine how to properly set Epicor up so that it thinks I have completely unlimited labor resources for backwards scheduling. Right now it seems to think I only have one resource available and when a job has 1000 + hours, it schedules the job six months into the past.
I need it to believe I have 1000 people working on the job all at the same time and that they can complete that entire job in 1 day.
Hi Joe, welcome to the forum!
One setting that might help… In Company Config > Modules > Production… there is a setting to “Allow Scheduling Before Today”.
I would make sure that’s unchecked.
I am not sure what you are asking is possible. Infinite capacity is not truly infinite, you are still limited by the calendar and the number of resources.
One thing you will need to play with is scheduling blocks. If that does not do what you want, it will definitely move the needle.
Change “Pieces / Hour” or whatever method is selected on the operation to “Fixed Hours”. Change Production Standard to 1 for one hour. Now your 1000 hour six month operation is schedule for 1 hour.
When is this 1000 hour job due? If its due today, starting it 6 months ago sounds about right.
Uncheck “Finite capacity” on the resource.
Using the scheduling blocks appears to be my best option so far. But, I have updated it on my resource group and it does not automatically update on the BOO, and it doesn’t pick up the change automatically for scheduling, so I am struggling to find out how to propegate all of the changes down to literally thousands of Methods.
I actually like this idea alot, but I am curious about how making this type of change impacts the accounting and quoting folks etc. The methods will not reflect the actual time to build.
