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How to Delete a Routing Step Safely in EDGEBIC
Delete a routing step in EDGEBIC without breaking the chain or orphaning scheduled work: relink the predecessor, save, reschedule, and check the anomalies report.
How to Enter Actual Hours for Yesterday in EDGEBIC
Enter actual hours for yesterday or any past day: use the daily grid, log outside the planned window, and answer the prior-days prompt correctly.
How to Export a Report to Excel in EDGEBIC
Exporting a report to Excel in EDGEBIC: the one-click footer button, which reports produce multi-sheet workbooks, and why hidden columns never make the file.
How to Filter the Job List in EDGEBIC
Filter the job list in EDGEBIC: search the order grid, group by sales order, and narrow the Job View Gantt to the jobs you care about with checkboxes and search.
How to Find a Job's Scheduled Dates in EDGEBIC
Find a job's scheduled dates in EDGEBIC: read Start Date, Item Start and Job End on the grid, or open Job View for step-by-step planned and actual times.
How to Find Out What a Report Column Means in EDGEBIC
Any report column you do not recognize in EDGEBIC has its own definition one click away: how to look up a column's meaning, formula and example values without a manual.
How to Find Which Products Have No Routing in EDGEBIC
Find every product with no routing in EDGEBIC using the BOR status column, catch the legacy multi-routing warning, and fix the gaps before the next schedule run.
How to Flag a Work Center as a Bottleneck in EDGEBIC
How to set the Is Bottleneck flag on a work center in EDGEBIC through import, what the flag does on its own, and why a target start date is also required.
How to Give One Work Center Its Own Calendar in EDGEBIC
How to give one machine different hours from the rest of the plant: untick Use Global Shifts, build its own shift list, and understand the Custom badge tradeoff.
How to Make Two Operations Run in Parallel in EDGEBIC
Make a routing step run on two machines at once in EDGEBIC: configure independent parallel to split the work and halve the wall-clock, or dependent for synchronized mirrors.
How to Mark a Whole Job Complete in EDGEBIC
Mark a whole manufacturing order complete, understand what the roll-up requires, and reopen a job when a completion needs reversing.
How to Move a Job on the Gantt Chart in EDGEBIC
Move one job's bar to a new slot on the Gantt, save or discard the override, and understand why the scheduled dates stay put while the actuals move.