We sometimes run into part shortages and reduce the quantities of jobs early on just to get our customer at least a partial of their order. We also get engineering changes so have to make other changes to the jobs. I am suspecting this is completing operations in the jobs and production is freaking out because an operation will suddenly be completed before the ones before it and there are no labor transactions for the operation. Or yesterday 5 operations were completed on a job, just scattered through with no rhyme or reason that I’ve found yet. I have been unable to duplicate as of yet. Has anybody seen this behavior?
I would split any job that was in process that required expediting. That should minimize the confusion, and allow the engineering group to make any necessary changes to the remaining material (since it’s a different job).
Keep in mind when you split, the parts completed through an op are transferred to the new job. The system operates in a way that says “you are taking the most completed parts and moving them to a new job”.
Require GOOD clocking, which we are fortunate to have.