RE: START TIMES ON MO'S

Weston,

First of all, you may not want to process operations in sequence because this 
forces you to complete operations in sequence.  If you have multiple operations 
open at the same time, they have to be completed in the sequence they are 
entered even if they are actually completed in some other sequence.  This has 
nothing to do with how the system schedules the order.

You need to define your operation times in the Routing file and the queue times 
in the Work Center (Production Facility) file.  When you open a mfg order, say 
"yes" to routings and the system will calculate operation lead times based on 
the Routing and Work Center files.  Be aware that lead times are in days and 
that if your standard times are less than one day, the total lead time could be 
less than a day.  Make sure that the time basis codes in the routing file are 
correct so that the lead times by operation are calculated correctly.  Backward 
scheduling should be okay, realizing that the system could calculate a start 
prior to the current date.  

I hope this helps.  There is a CD for MAPICS/XA that contains all the manuals 
for the system.  There is a Rel. 4 version and a Rel.6 version.  They are in 
PDF format and are an excellent resource for determining what MAPICS is doing 
and how to set up your system to do what you want.

David  

-----Original Message-----
From: Weston Wheat [mailto:wwheat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:48 AM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: START TIMES ON MO'S


Hello group.
Ok, This is going to sound trivial .
As I have mention, before we are in the process
of re-aligning our mapics processes. Or I should say
in the process of matching our bussiness processes to
mapics. We have allot of work arounds that we want to
do away with.
Anyway, we want to take advanage of the MO operations scheduling
that mapics is capable of , i.e. We want mapics to tell us when to start a
operation
within a MO. I have the in the test environment, gone into Tayloring for
PCC.
Have set Backard Scheduling to YES as well as Process Shop activily in seq.
to
Yes. However when I did a test MO, I still got the Start Dates matching the
Completion
Dates. Do we need to load the lead time for the opearations mannally?
And where would we do that?

Thanks

Weston Wheat
Information Systems Manager
Quality Thermistor Inc
wwheat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.thermistor.com

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