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Building a Work Center List When Your ERP Has None
How to create a scheduling-grade work center list when your ERP has no resource master: what to include, how many instances to declare, and how to import it into EDGEBIC.
EDGEBIC + Cetec ERP: The Scheduling Integration Guide
Cetec ERP production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export parts, work centers, routings and open work orders, map columns once, then schedule at finite capacity.
EDGEBIC + Rootstock: The Scheduling Integration Guide
Rootstock production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export items, work centers, routings and work orders as CSV, map columns once, then schedule at finite capacity.
Handling an ERP Export With Combined Setup and Run Time
How to split an ERP's blended standard hours into setup and per-piece run time when you import into EDGEBIC, so small and large jobs both get accurate finite capacity dates.
Handling Engineering Changes With an ERP Routing Re-Import
How to push an engineering change from your ERP into EDGEBIC: re-import the routing, keep jobs in progress on their original snapshot, and control when the new method takes effect.
Handling Multi-Plant ERP Exports in EDGEBIC
How to import ERP data for several plants into EDGEBIC: naming work centers per site, filtering exports, modeling transit between plants, and deciding one model or several.
Importing ERP Labor Transactions as Scheduling Actuals
How to turn your ERP's labor transactions into EDGEBIC actuals: which columns to export, how hours attach to a job and work center, and what a reschedule does with them.
Importing Sub-Assembly Routings From Your ERP
How to bring multi-level BOM and sub-assembly routings out of your ERP into EDGEBIC: one routing per level, how a child feeds its parent, and the import order that wires them.
Keeping Job Numbers Aligned Between Your ERP and EDGEBIC
How to keep work order and job identifiers consistent across your ERP and EDGEBIC: natural keys, order references, multi-line auto-numbering, and what breaks when they drift.
Mapping Alternate Work Centers From Your ERP
How to carry an ERP's alternate machine data into EDGEBIC: what a true alternate means, speed factors, priority, machine pools, and what to do when the ERP holds nothing at all.
Mapping Your ERP's Units of Measure for Scheduling
How to reconcile ERP units of measure with EDGEBIC when you import: quantity units, time units, per-hundred standards, and the conversion factors that keep dates honest.
Splitting One ERP Operation Into Multiple EDGEBIC Steps
How to break a single coarse ERP operation into separate EDGEBIC routing steps when work runs across different machines, so finite capacity scheduling sees the real flow.