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How to Add a Supplier and Raise a Purchase Order in EDGEBIC
The Purchasing sub-tab in four moves: create the supplier, raise the order header, add lines with a promised date, and set the one status that decides whether the scheduler believes any of it.
What Stock a Job Actually Drew From Inventory in EDGEBIC
A hidden window in Job View shows exactly what a job took from stock, and whether it was finished product that skipped the shop or components drawn to build it. The only way in is a double-click.
Exploding a Parent's Demand Into Component Demand in EDGEBIC
How a planned order becomes requirements on its components: quantity-per, why the explosion dates at the parent's release, and why it explodes the quantity you will actually start.
I Firmed My Purchase Orders and the Schedule Did Not Move
Firming a buy item from the MRP worklist raises a draft purchase order, and draft supplies the scheduler nothing. Why that is the right default, and the two steps that finish the job.
Low-Level Codes: Why Every Item Is Planned Exactly Once
A shared component appears at different depths in different bills. The low-level code is the single number that decides when it gets planned, and planning it early quietly hides shortages.
My Job Will Not Start and I Cannot See Why
A job sitting later than it should with no obvious cause is usually waiting on material. Five causes in diagnosis order, including the one that leaves no marker at all.
Reading MRP Action Messages: What to Do, and in What Order
A time-phased plan states a position. Action messages state a job of work. The nine EDGEBIC messages, the order to work them in, and the two silences that keep the list honest.
Receiving Against a Purchase Order Line and What It Releases
Receiving is the single event that turns inbound supply into on-hand stock. What a full or partial receipt changes immediately, what waits for the next schedule run, and what it refuses.
The Scheduled Receipts Report as a Pre-Publish Routine
An unordered material looks exactly like one you already have, because there is nothing to wait on and no marker appears. The Scheduled Receipts report is how you find the gap first.
What Material Pegging Means, in Plain Terms
Material pegging makes a job wait on a specific inbound purchase-order line instead of pretending the material is on the shelf. How a peg forms, where it shows, and what clears it.
What Multi-Level MRP Does That Reorder-Point Planning Cannot
Reorder-point planning watches one item against its own history. Multi-level MRP sees the demand a parent's plan places on its components, before the stock is drawn.
Why the Promised Date Matters More Than the Order Date
A purchase order carries two dates and only one of them changes the schedule. Why EDGEBIC plans against the supplier's promise, and what to do the moment that promise moves.