When, Why, and How to use Multi-Job?

Kinetic ERP
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There are a few places in Epicor where the multi-job flag shows up. Notably in the job scheduling screen, and Site Maintenance > Planning. (Where else does it show up?)

I am interested in the multi-job functionality. Can anyone succinctly describe its intended use?

From Help:

Use the Schedule Multi-Job option to schedule a group of associated jobs as if it were a single job.

We are in the process of breaking up parts that include subassemblies so that the assemblies are suggested as separate jobs (as make-to-job). I think this could be a good tool, but I am not sure exactly how and when to use it.

Edit: I looked at multi-part jobs, and that is not what we want.

Thanks!
Nate

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I could see you using it for jobs that have really large demand that you want to breakdown into more manageable buckets of parts.

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Everything I can see about multi-job is strictly to do with scheduling. Is that true? Are there any uses for multi-job that are not related to scheduling?

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multi-job is for when you have job to job demands… ie… you job 1 needs a part, and that part is make direct from job 2… you can do the multi-job scheduling to keep job 1 and job 2 in sync. That is pretty much what it is used for.

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Could it be used to batch jobs? Like running a laser or plasma cutter, and several jobs get made from one ‘run’? Then the operator clocks in/out once on the main job and labor is divided proportionally.

Or am I thinking of something else?

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I think that is what co-parts are. Or maybe multi-part jobs.

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You are thinking of batching.

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Job Batching:

  • You have 10 different part numbers that all get painted red… so you can batch them together for the painting operation
  • you have 10 different part numbers that are all cut at the same time in the first operation, so you batch them together, cut the pieces, and then the material returns back to the owning jobs for the balance of the operations.

The concept of job batching is that you dont necessarily know up front what will be batched, but once you have the jobs, and you see them in the schedule, you would batch common items together for efficiency.

Multi-Job Scheduling:

  • this is where you DO have a set of jobs that are already linked via Make Direct jobs… Job A and job B supply job C with materials. If you reschedule Job C, then you also want job A and B to be rescheduled at the same time.

Note that if you had the items that are on job A and B as SUB ASSEMBLIES within Job C, then they do automatically get rescheduled, but when you have them as separate jobs (due to other needs) then they would not necessarily get scheduled together as a set.

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Where does job batching actually happen? I can see that we will need to use the multi-job scheduling once we have our new job structure in place. Thanks for the clarification!

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If I am remembering correctly, I think it is the Multi-Resource Scheduling Board. I know it is one of the scheduling boards. And you need the APS license to use it.