We are having some operational issues with Co-Parts within MES.
Report Qty doesn’t seem to work on a job with co-parts. You have to go to the Co-Parts tab and enter your quantities, then (I assume) go back to the main tab to hit OK. Doing so results in no transaction to the PartTran table.
If you do this reporting as Time and Labor in standard E10, it seems to work (although there are some complaints as to how it works - especially with reporting scrap).
Am I doing something wrong?
you are battling superior design and implementation functionality…with some clever UI stuff you could flatten out the MES EA form and bring that to the front.
We have an open ticket on this with support. It is case # CS0000131886. It is preventing up from printing labels and recording production on co-parts.
Rob,
Could you clarify your suggestion? Is EA end activity? If so we report quantity as each box is completed.
I had considered hacking up the form and adding my own handling but it seems like the MES reporting of quantity wont work at all for a co-part job. If that’s the case, I am not sure where to go with it.
In your example if you end activity you should see the transactions hit parttran, but ending activity defeats the purpose of report quantity.
We’ve been forced to roll our own MES because we use lot tracked co-parts extensively and need immediate receipt to inventory with label printing.
@jblomstedt We are in the same boat - we immediately report the box so we can automate the label printing (off the PartTran). I guess I’ll dig into the BO and figure out how to report manually and bypass that MES screen logic.
I feel the need to find a solution because so many people here at my company are already screaming the Co-Parts doesn’t work - in the meantime, the poor scheduler is pulling double duty to schedule duplicate jobs for co-parts.
Jeff and Chris, This is the same thing we are running into as well. We are lot tracked and we need to print the labels for our products from report quantity. We also run quite a few co-parts; left/right, top/bottom, etc. This has been reported to Epicor support and turned over to development. I haven’t heard anything on it other than it has been turned over to development. I have asked for the case to be escalated.
If you find a solution, I would be really interested in hearing it!
Chris,
My bad, I misinterpreted what you meant by report quantity. I assumed you meant reporting quantity on the end activity form. I don’t have any direct experience with the report quantity button on the MES screen.