I’m pulling a reverse @klincecum my dumpster fire thread was turning into a useful conversation 
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YEP. We have the maintenance module. We don’t use it, but we know we ought to, so… it hangs around, unused.
Moving inventory from one building to another is “managed” VIA Microsoft Teams.
e: fixed
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At least its managed 
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Would anyone be interested in a Teams meeting on the batching process that have developed to discuss how it works - that @Evan_Purdy referred to?
I am interested in sharing this and also getting feedback.
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I have a whole slew, but in fear of retribution from mentioning it on a public forum I will refrain…
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Bruce if you have a solution share it with everyone on the forum.
No need for private meeting we would all be interested im sure in whatever insight you are going to share.
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If you’ve been here a few years… Kevin is the new Kevin…
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Thanks for being here @LarsonSolutions. You have shared knowledge with me that has helped me along the way, and I want to continue to have that experience here on the forum AND outside of it. I want to see you make money and I want people on the forum to be enriched when they can be, because that’s what it’s for.
Maybe you proposed a teams meeting because it would be the best way to present it. In that case maybe you could record a video of your solution and upload it to YouTube and share it here for all to see or maybe invite the forum to a public webinar (which I think @MikeGross has done on occasion), or you could use screen shots and type it all out so that we all can learn from it.
On the other hand, maybe you proposed doing it via Teams to not overshare which could theoretically cannibalize consulting opportunities and not allow you to monetize the time you’ve spent crafting the solution (which I am certain was a bit of time).
To that I say, chances are what you share wouldn’t be enough for a person to completely pull it off since everyone’s products and manufacturing processes are pretty different, but it would give them the general idea of what you’re doing and still allow you to consult around the approach should they see the value in it.
In other words, you’ll be able to consult around it, even when sharing it, because there aren’t many admins/analysts that are able to spend the time to completely understand what you are laying out and then tailor that very idea to their own operations. You’d have to step in to do those things and that’s why we need consultants like you. We need people like you because you came up with intelligent approach, know it well, AND you’d have the time to customize/tailor it to our process… at least that’s part of the reason I reach out to consultants.
Or, maybe you proposed a teams meeting to that one person because nobody else on this thread showed interest in the subject so making a public thread on the solution didn’t seem worthwhile. I have also been guilty helping people via teams on problems that they posted, but I usually try and document what we did afterwards on the post or I ask the person I was helping to do that so the forum could learn with us. While someone might not be interested right now, we know well that this forum has a long history of helping people in the future, long after the post was made, because eventually someone does run into that same situation and is interested in it… which is why this forum is so valuable. And that’s a comment directed at everyone on this thread, not just you.
In any case, I want to see you make money and I want people on the forum to be enriched when they can be, because that’s what it’s for. So, whatever means we have of sharing, whether that’s a webinar, YouTube, or written, they are all welcomed and loved here. Thanks again for being part of the community. I always wish you the best.
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I am sorry if it appeared that I was attempting to solicit on this forum.
I have edited my reply to the thread above to better clarify the intent.
But to further clarify this, I would like to share with the user group the approach on batching jobs that I have been working on for the past couple years.
This isn’t a way to promote myself, but to truly share this concept.
This really isn’t something that I could put on YouTube because I would first have to figure out how to put it on YouTube 
I would like to show it and discuss it with users that are interested in Batch processing, and discuss the pros & cons I felt this is right forum to present it.
If it is acceptable, please let me know how I can have a teams meeting which would be public as you had mentioned @MikeGross has done in the past.
If not, I will leave it to what I have shared.
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I am interested in batching. we don’t use it right now and manually batch offline. I haven’t been able to bring it up yet because we are still trying to implement much simpler concepts to bills of material such as “fixed setup quantities” and understanding what resources and resource groups are meant for…
I would love to attend.
For the record Bruce, that’s why I provided 3 possibilities I could think of why you suggested sharing the solution to that person via teams. I didn’t know whether it was any one of those reasons and I certainly wasn’t assuming I didn’t think it was an attempt to solicit.
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@LarsonSolutions Can you give us the cliff notes? I am interested and I tried to do batch jobs to combine some very time consuming wire cut operations that were on small quantity jobs, but eventually we just made them into kits we pre cut and stock.
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Hey Bruce,
It is certainly possible to record a Teams meeting (with or without attendees) and share it with a link. (The recording is stored in your OneDrive).
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@LarsonSolutions , are you using the Batching functionality in Epicor or something different?
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EUG Fall 2024?
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The rest of us assumed you were working on your Pulitzer.
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… I dunno man, looks like it’s going the other way again 
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Here’s a link to the Cliff notes.
It is not using the batching function, nor does it require the Advance Production module. I would say it actually is easier than the Batching function from that module.
I am trying to work through how to best allocate the cost of job that I create back to all of the demand jobs.
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