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What Is Margin Percent on a Quote?
Margin percent is profit divided by quoted price. See exactly which costs EDGEBIC includes, why margin is not markup, and what the color thresholds mean.
What Is Mark Complete on Import in an Actuals Load?
Mark Complete on Import is the actuals import option that marks every imported operation finished, with a per-row Complete column able to override it. Learn how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Is Multi-Run Optimization in Scheduling?
Multi-run optimization re-runs the real scheduler with many job orderings and keeps the best complete result. Definition, worked example, and what its badge claims.
What Is Replace Existing in an Actuals Import?
Replace Existing is the actuals import option that clears logged days your file does not mention, making the imported file the complete record for the operations it touches. Learn how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Is the Include Sub-Assemblies in Schedule Setting?
Include Sub-Assemblies in Schedule is the option that decides whether a multi-level product's sub-assembly routings are exploded and planned with the parent job or left out. Learn how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Is the Item Start Date on a Job?
Item Start is the moment a job's last work-center operation ends and the item physically exists. Learn why it differs from Job End and what it is really used for.
What Is the Job End Date on a Job?
Job End is the delivery-ready date: the last operation's finish plus the product's lead time. See why EDGEBIC judges every lateness figure against it, not the machine finish.
What Is the Primary Hours Only Setting in Job Totals?
Primary Hours Only excludes mirrored parallel steps from job and routing hour totals so synchronized machines do not double-count. Learn what it changes and how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Is the Update Existing Records Import Option?
Update Existing Records is the import mask option that decides whether a matched row overwrites the record it matched or is left untouched and counted Reused. Learn how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Are Estimated Work Hours on a Quote?
Estimated work hours are the real work a routing consumes, not the elapsed span between quoted start and end dates. Learn why the two differ and which one prices a job.
What Are Job Status Buckets on a Dashboard?
Late, Overdue, On time, and Early are the four exclusive slices every job falls into. Learn what separates late from overdue and why the fix differs.
What Are Production Hours in Shop-Floor Tracking?
Production hours are the run and rework time credited to a job, with setup, pause and downtime kept separately. Learn why the split protects operators and reports.