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The Four EDGEBIC Roles Most Plants Need
Planner, shop supervisor, read-only, and data entry: the four EDGEBIC roles that cover almost every plant, what each one grants, and what each deliberately leaves out.
The Quarterly EDGEBIC Admin Health Check
A quarterly admin health check for EDGEBIC: review accounts and roles, prove a backup restores, confirm import masks still match their files, and re-read scheduling policy.
What Happens When Two Admins Save the Same Record in EDGEBIC
EDGEBIC uses last-write-wins: two people saving the same work center means the second save overwrites the first silently. Here is why, and the working rules that prevent it.
Who Owns What: Splitting EDGEBIC Admin Duties
Which EDGEBIC administration duties belong to IT and which belong to planning: the database and backups versus masks, roles, and scheduling policy, with a duty-by-duty split.
A Tour of EDGEBIC Options and Settings
A map of the EDGEBIC Settings and Options screens: datasource, users and roles, scheduler display, scheduling policy, the optimizer engine, and data management.
Administering Grid Layouts in EDGEBIC
How EDGEBIC saves grid and panel layouts per user, why new columns still appear, and how an admin resets a drifted layout without losing anyone's work.
Administering Scheduled ERP Syncs in EDGEBIC
How EDGEBIC's Integration tab runs scheduled and file-watched imports on interval, keeps run history, monitors live runs, and lets you test a sync with the built-in simulator.
Deactivating Users and Offboarding in EDGEBIC
How to offboard someone from EDGEBIC the right way: deactivate rather than delete, reassign their work, and keep the audit trail attributable, all through users and roles.
Moving EDGEBIC to a New Computer
How to move an EDGEBIC install to a new PC: for the local database, back up and carry the file; for a shared SQL Server, just reconnect from the DataSource tab.
Planning EDGEBIC Hardware and Sizing
What EDGEBIC needs to run: a standard Windows workstation for a single-user pilot on the local database, and a shared SQL Server for a team, sized by how you deploy.
Reading EDGEBIC Run Logs and Run History
Where EDGEBIC run logs live and how to read them: import run files, integration run history, startup errors, and the audit trail an admin actually needs.
Switching the EDGEBIC Datasource
How to switch EDGEBIC between a local database and SQL Server from the DataSource tab: back up first, test the connection, and understand what does and does not move.