Re: SFC650 errors -- BPCS-L

From Al Macintyre 405 CD mixed mode 400 V4R3

We do not use SFC650 or PRF.  Our data entry is manual, in daily batches by 
facility, so there is always a data reporting lag vs. on-line accuracy.
We report most of our labor via JIT600, using SFC600 to clean up operations & 
orders that need to be closed.  We have modifications for shop paperwork & 
capturing machine cycles for factory equipment maintenance needs.

JIT600 uses the SFC600 entry screens & some of the labor fields accept 
negative adjustment entries, but you cannot use field exit minus, it has to 
be hard minus in the right place - not an easy thing to locate through 
experimentation let alone teach clerical people how to manage in actual 
production adjustments.

There are labor tickets that cannot be posted for whatever reason ... they 
are sent to the accounting department so that financial adjustments can be 
made, to compensate.  We also discover glitches where the labor input & 
inventory input are not in sync ... this should not be, if our procedures are 
correctly followed, but it is very easy to have slip-ups & misconceptions.

We have had backflushing out of the wrong warehouse, labor reporting against 
the wrong facility's orders, but most frequently the right part reported 
against the wrong shop order.

I suspect that due to human turn-over & a lot of people not understanding all 
the nuances, that we have unresolved errors creeping in all over the place.  
I see it all the time in the questions that are identical to the ones I 
answered months ago.

We have OLD shop orders that need to be purged.
They do not purge automatically because the history retention is shorter than 
the age of the shop orders, and CST900 looks at history to determine whether 
it is Ok to purge an order that seems to be finished ... no history (all 
gone) no purge.
I explain this to them.  They seem to understand & agree that the old 
finished orders need to be manually CLOSED (not KILLED) using SFC540, but 
they do not have time to do this, then months later the same people are 
asking me the same question about the same orders ... they have forgotten my 
explanation.

>  From:    brad.henson@countryfresh.com (Brad Henson)
>  
>  How do you folks handle errors in Shop Floor reporting?
>  
>  Is there a way I can setup SFC650 so we can do a negative Shop Order
>  receipt?  PO receipts can be negative.
>  
>  What about the backflushing?  Can the issues done in error be
>  'unbackflushed?'
>  
>  We are currently doing Inventory adjustments to correct that, but it screws
>  up our labor and financials.
>  
>  thanks
>  
>  Brad

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