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What Is a Forecast Type in Planning? EDGEBIC Definition
A forecast type labels a demand forecast as Sales, Production, or Consumption, telling the planning system what kind of expectation it represents. See how EDGEBIC uses each in projection.
What Is a Planned Start Pin in Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
A planned start pin is a durable intended start date for an operation that has not begun, without pretending it has. See how EDGEBIC schedules forward from a pin without writing actuals.
What Is a Secondary Resource in Manufacturing Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
A secondary resource is a second constraint, usually the operator, that must be free at the same time as the machine. See how EDGEBIC schedules people as finite resources alongside equipment.
What Is a Skill in Manufacturing Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
A skill is a named certification a routing step can require so only qualified operators are staffed on it. See how EDGEBIC turns the certificate on the wall into a schedulable constraint.
What Is a Working-Hour Tick in Optimization? EDGEBIC Definition
A working-hour tick is the optimizer's time unit, one hundredth of an hour, on a calendar with closed time cut out. See how EDGEBIC's exact solver measures the plant week without floating point.
What Is an Actuals Entry Source in Shop Floor Tracking? EDGEBIC Definition
An actuals entry source records where a logged actual came from: typed by a person, back-filled by the system, or imported. See how EDGEBIC flags system-filled hours so planners can trust the record.
What Is an End-Product Actuals Roll-Up in Manufacturing? EDGEBIC Definition
An end-product actuals roll-up aggregates a job's operational actuals against its single end product, the canonical how-far-along answer. See how EDGEBIC avoids double-counting sub-assemblies.
What Is an Operator Pin in Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
An operator pin hard-assigns a routing step to one named person, with no silent substitution. See how EDGEBIC makes a pinned step slide visibly instead of quietly swapping in someone else.
What Is Direction Precedence in Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
Direction precedence is the fixed order that decides which scheduling path a job takes: anchor, then actuals, then pins, then backward, then forward. See how EDGEBIC resolves it per order.
What Is Operator Time Off in Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
Operator time off is a leave, PTO, or training date range that removes a person's hours, the people-equivalent of a machine holiday. See how EDGEBIC slides skilled steps around it on reschedule.
What Is Parallel Actuals Mirroring in Scheduling? EDGEBIC Definition
Parallel actuals mirroring copies a primary step's logged actuals onto its synchronized parallel siblings automatically. See how EDGEBIC keeps mirrored machines in step without double entry.
What Is a Bill of Materials (BOM) in Manufacturing?
A bill of materials is the complete list of components needed to make one unit of a product. Here is what a BOM is and how it relates to routing.