FLT Labor Rates

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

Can anyone give me an explanation of what these FLT fields are supposed to
represent?
    TLRTE Rate-1     TORTS Rate-2    TORTE Rate-3    TOCST Rate-4
    TSRTE Rate-Standard

We are version 405 CD
99% of our labor is reported via JIT600
We use SFC600 for some reporting that does not involove inventory, such as
down time, and also for making corrections, since negative quantity does not
work on JIT600
The vast majority of our labor reporting is via transaction type
M Machine Time or
R Human Labor Time

We have a modification in the works,
to "enhance" Start-Stop Labor Reporting & Employee evaluation,
& I am trying to figure out what all the fields of FLT signify.

I did RUNQRY *N FLT F4 select records *YES then one of these fields NE 0 &
looked at screen then F12 & try another ... all of ours are populated except
TSRTE but they are not consistently populated with same values.

I speculated that one of these is probably the standard rate of pay per hour
on the employee reporting the labor from CEM file, and another might be the
same value after shift premium added, although at present I have no idea
where it gets that data, which would be identical on first shift tickets ...
we have very little input outside of first shift.  But which fields do that &
what are the others?

I looked up RATE in BPCS Run documentation for labor reporting & I found some
interesting essays on Work Centers, which would not apply because 99% of our
labor reporting is on a legitimate clock # which has a $/hour cost rate, but
I found nothing to clarify what these fields represent.

I created queries FLT_RATE_1 2 3 4
in which each one matches FLT employee # with CEM employee master file and
that rate in FLT with the standard cost rate in CEM.  I was hoping that 1 or
2 would come up with lots of matches, while the others would come up with no
matches, thus identifying for me which are the cost based on the employee
reporting & which are for some other purpose.

I am now totally mystified.  Every single one of them came up with a bunch of
matches, but on different records.

Either different rate fields get populated with the same basis of math
controlled by factors I have yet to identify, or the #s that are the rate of
pay cost for our employees are coincidentally, or perhaps even fortunately,
very close numerically to some other unrelated math result.

I need a new direction for exploration to figure out what these fields mean.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)