Using MES Labor Records for Time Studies

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The job tracker screen shows estimated vs actual hours, but I haven't
found a good summary screen. The project tracker screen does summarize
all job time, if you work on projects, but not really useful for
continuous manufacturing.



We have written a few custom reports to get that info:

- monthly plant efficiency - jobs closed that month, est vs
actual time for entire job

- daily shift efficiency - est vs actual based on qty completed
that shift (not total job qty)

- direct vs indirect % & log-in % by employee

Contact me off-list if you're interested in these reports... I can share
bits of them, but not the entire report.



And we've turned on the change log on PartOpr to track the history of
production standard changes, and a screen customization that stores the
original standard we quoted at in Number01.



Brian.



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We went live with Epicor 9.05.606 at the beginning of the month and seem
to rolling along quite smoothly. As we move forward though I am looking
to begin using the data we are collecting on our jobs.

We are inputting the labor transactions through MES against the jobs but
I have not seen how to use this information. Ideally, I would like to be
able to do a couple things:

(1) Compare all jobs estimated labor versus actual labor so that I can
identify BOOs that are inaccurate and need updating.

(2) Perform a time study on a particular part and see how long much
labor was required to produce the parts historically.

(3) Perform a "labor roll-up" to determine the total labor required to
produce a finished good that may have multiple jobs that flowed into it.
The one I am most interested in has over 40 independent jobs to build
subcomponents as well as 5 separate major assembly jobs. It's a real
beast.

Does anyone know of built in tools to help with this? Does anyone have a
dashboard or report that I could use as a starting point? I'm sure with
enough time I can build these myself but I'd rather not reinvent the
wheel!

Thanks,

Tom





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We went live with Epicor 9.05.606 at the beginning of the month and seem to rolling along quite smoothly. As we move forward though I am looking to begin using the data we are collecting on our jobs.

We are inputting the labor transactions through MES against the jobs but I have not seen how to use this information. Ideally, I would like to be able to do a couple things:

(1) Compare all jobs estimated labor versus actual labor so that I can identify BOOs that are inaccurate and need updating.

(2) Perform a time study on a particular part and see how long much labor was required to produce the parts historically.

(3) Perform a "labor roll-up" to determine the total labor required to produce a finished good that may have multiple jobs that flowed into it. The one I am most interested in has over 40 independent jobs to build subcomponents as well as 5 separate major assembly jobs. It's a real beast.

Does anyone know of built in tools to help with this? Does anyone have a dashboard or report that I could use as a starting point? I'm sure with enough time I can build these myself but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel!

Thanks,

Tom