Cycle count set up confusing

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If you are flying by the seat of your pants.  Quantity adjustments may be the best way to handle cycle counts.

-John Sasser
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Do a lot of you use the cycle count program in E10.0? I'm trying to learn how to set up the cycle count program but it doesn't seem to work very well. Sometime it will generate the cycles for a period when I save, but most of the time it won't. Also it won't assign parts to the cycles. I have gotten to assign the parts in the previous test, but recreating that process has proven to be problematic. There isn't any feedback about why anything works or doesn't work as far as I can tell, and the flow through the screens is not very intuitive.

Here's the steps that I have been trying to do. Let me know if there is something that I am missing.

1. ABC code maintenance, set up the ABC codes.
2. Calculate the ABC codes
3. Set up the CDRC for when your counts are off
4. initialize the last cycle count date (since we haven't one any cycle counting yet)
5. define the cycle count period. (I picked a calendar month)
5. Cycle count schedule maintenance to create a schedule. I've had it create the cycles for the days twice, but I've tried to get this to work a dozen times or so. Most of the time it won't generate the cycles, and adding them one by one is tedious.
6. Add parts. I've only had this work once.
7. start cycle count period
8. generate tags
9. enter tags.
10 post with reasons.

If you see a critical set that I am missing let me know. Or if you have seen some pitfalls in your experience I would love to see what you guys have been through.

Thanks,
Brandon


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Epicor has a TON of documentation on this.... Even free courses online in their training portal






Jose C Gomez
Software Engineer


T: 904.469.1524 mobile

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:15 PM, brandonanderson7979@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
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  <p>Do a lot of you use the cycle count program in E10.0? I&#39;m trying to learn how to set up the cycle count program but it doesn&#39;t seem to work very well. Sometime it will generate the cycles for a period when I save, but most of the time it won&#39;t. Also it won&#39;t assign parts to the cycles. I have gotten to assign the parts in the previous test, but recreating that process has proven to be problematic. There isn&#39;t any feedback about why anything works or doesn&#39;t work as far as I can tell, and the flow through the screens is not very intuitive.<br><br>Here&#39;s the steps that I have been trying to do. Let me know if there is something that I am missing.<br><br>1. ABC code maintenance, set up the ABC codes.<br>2. Calculate the ABC codes<br>3. Set up the CDRC for when your counts are off<br>4. initialize the last cycle count date (since we haven&#39;t one any cycle counting yet)<br>5. define the cycle count period. (I picked a calendar month)<br>5. Cycle count schedule maintenance to create a schedule. I&#39;ve had it create the cycles for the days twice, but I&#39;ve tried to get this to work a dozen times or so. Most of the time it won&#39;t generate the cycles, and adding them one by one is tedious.<br>6. Add parts. I&#39;ve only had this work once.<br>7. start cycle count period<br>8. generate tags<br>9. enter tags.<br>10 post with reasons.<br><br>If you see a critical set that I am missing let me know. Or if you have seen some pitfalls in your experience I would love to see what you guys have been through.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Brandon<br></p><p><span><br></span></p><p></p>

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How do you get to the "training portal"? I'm looking through epic web in the training center and the only course I see is the cycle and physical count course.
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Jose C Gomez
Software Engineer


T: 904.469.1524 mobile

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:49 AM, brandonanderson7979@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
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  <p>How do you get to the &quot;training portal&quot;? I&#39;m looking through epic web in the training center and the only course I see is the cycle and physical count course.</p>

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The one demand doesn't show up for me.

I hate epicor.
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Yup, exactly where I was looking. None of the on demand shows up for me.

I F**** hate epicor.
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I dabbled with it and had no success, I did take the epicor course for $300
on cycle counting.

It did give me the info that I was skipping.



If this helps I built this custom menu for cycle counting







This is the order that I follow, left to right to complete a cycle count



Keep in mind that cycle count period definition is just a batch file that
you create. You do not have to count the parts on that date.

Did you build a counting calendar?



Gary Wojtowicz





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Yeah, I went through one of those packets. The problem with them is that they don't tell you why you are doing what you are doing, so when something doesn't work later, (like the cycles don't populate automatically) you have no way to trouble shoot anything.
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LoL time for a new job buddy

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, brandonanderson7979@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
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  <p>The one demand doesn&#39;t show up for me.<br><br>I hate epicor.</p>

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Jose C Gomez
Software Engineer


T: 904.469.1524 mobile

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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Be nice…….

 

Brenda

 

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Yup, exactly where I was looking. None of the on demand shows up for me.

I F**** hate epicor.

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The screen shot's don't work in yahoo (I hate yahoo more that I hate epicor). Maybe someone can show you a good way to make a link or something.

I'm looking at making an updatable dashboard to manage the last cycle count date and give us a ranked list of parts to go count. Then use qty adjust to do the adjustments. There are too many steps in the built in functionality that we simply don't need. We are a fairly small (read "fly by the seat of your pants") company and I'm pretty sure that I would spend more time with all of the data entry and reason codes than I would counting for very little benefit. The rigidness (and the buggyness) of the built in system makes it tough to work for us. I can see where it would be helpful for large companies with very large inventories, but for us, not so much.