Utilization

Kinetic ERP
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I’m trying to locate where utilization is entered for resources into the system. Can anyone point me to it?

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utilization is calculated from Data Collection (MES) screens when employees report time. There is a labor report that shows utilization i believe (it has been a while since I looked at it).
But also… some companies have various calculations for Utilization (and also for “realization”)
where I used to work, we did two different calcualtions on each employee:

  1. Utilization: percent of the time that an employee was clocked into jobs (and not on overhead).
  2. Realization: this takes into account efficiency… if the employee was clocked into one job for 8 hours, they were 100% utilized. If the job said that they should complete 10 pieces per hour (80 per day), and they only complete 60 in the day, they only had a 75% realization.. or… if they finished 160 parts in the day, then they were %200 realized.
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Tim,
In my experience there is a setting at the resource level so that we can say to MRP upon scheduling “only factor in a certain percentage of the calendar”.

  1. This is more of a metric, meaning of the 10 hours available on this resource today, how many were worked.
  2. we call this earned hours, but again is more of a metric than a setting.

Any suggestions?