Features

From-To Time Reporting or Elapsed Hours

A plant-specific option allows all time recording to be entered either as clock time (entering from (start) and to (finish) times), or as a one field, total elapsed hours.

Auto Move-Receive

A plant specific option automates all move and receive transactions. With this option, each time a quantity complete transaction is entered against an operation, the quantity moved is updated; the quantity available on the next operation in the order is also updated.

Quantity Complete

On the labor requirements update screens for direct employee time and direct machine time, a quantity complete can also be entered.  This allows both time and material to be recorded with only one transaction.  If multiple location backflushing is specified on Reference File category 436, the quantity completed value will be used to calculate the transaction quantity to be issued for each component at each routing step.  Please refer to the Issuing Component Parts key concept in this manual for more information about quantity calculations.

Crew Reporting

For crew operations, only the quantity complete recorded by the crew reporter is used to update the labor requirements record.  If the employee recording the transaction is not the crew reporter, the quantity complete is not updated.  This prevents the quantity complete from being accumulated more than once.

Manufacturing Order Receipt/Component Issue

 Manufacturing order receipts and component issues can be generated from the same screen on which the quantity complete is entered.  The labor requirement being reported against must be the last one in the manufacturing order; for crew operations, it must be the transaction entered by the crew reporter.

A manufacturing order receipt is generated by entering a lot number.  You may either allow the lot number to be created automatically through automatic lot number assignment (which is defined on Reference File category Y34), or you may enter the number of a lot that exists on the Lot Control File (IC150M), or you may enter a specific lot that does not yet exist on the Lot Control File.  MAC-PAC will add this lot to the file.  One asynchronous transaction is formatted and is sent to the Manufacturing Order Receipt Program.

A manufacturing order receipt and component issue can be generated by entering the appropriate lot fields, and the next manufacturing order number.*  You may either allow the lot number to be created automatically through automatic lot number assignment (which is defined on Reference File category Y34), or you may enter the number of a lot that exists on the Lot Control File (IC150M), or you may enter a specific lot that does not yet exist on the Lot Control File.  MAC-PAC will add this lot to the file.  Two asynchronous transactions are formatted:  one to the Manufacturing Order Receipt Program; one to the Component Issue Program.

*     The default value for location is WIP, which is automatically set up by the Warehouse Description Program.  The default value for balance type is ON-HAND.

Operation-to-Operation Reconciliation.  For all quantity complete and quantity scrapped transactions, an operation-to-operation reconciliation calculation is performed.  If the sum of the quantity complete and quantity scrapped at the operation being reported against is greater than the quantity complete at the previous operation, a warning message is written to the transaction register.