We have only recently been truly scheduling jobs in Epicor and just discovered an issue. How do we hold a production “slot” for a job that is not engineered or released. Is this possible? I can’t find an option for that anywhere.
A little back ground. We are a custom manufacturer and most of our jobs are make to order with a “part on the fly” we don’t generally create methods for these customer orders. We run what if scheduling and find a spot in our production schedule. What has been happening is these jobs get moved in the schedule (generally to a different resource) and we are forced to engineer and schedule the job which drives requirements that we can’t drive yet (that part of the project is not approved) but the part is in the job.
Any “check boxes” that would solve this issue. Or any other input you might have to solve this issue.
You can lock jobs so they don’t get moved, but that does not help if the job is unfirm or not engineered yet. This sounds somewhat procedural, like you need to wait for full approval prior to job creation.
I was thinking it might be procedural. Problem is we need to hold that production time slow as approvals can take several weeks. Thoughts on solving that?
There might be something that could be done with a temporary “HOLD” part number on the BOM that then gets replaced when the real part is approved? Never done that myself, but just brain storming…
it could be named something that would relate to the parent part/job?
Extra work to do as then the job would need to be corrected.