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What Is Quantity on Hand in Inventory?
Quantity on hand is the current stock figure for a product, held as a cached total the ledger owns. Learn why you never type it and how it stays correct.
What Is Routing Drift in Production Scheduling?
Routing drift is the gap between the routing a job was scheduled against and the routing that is live today. Learn what the shop floor is told about it, and why the job keeps its own copy.
What Is Row-Error Tolerance in a Data Import?
Row-error tolerance decides whether one bad row fails alone while the import continues, or stops the whole run. Learn both behaviors and when to use each.
What Is Sales Order Reference Grouping in an Import?
Sales order reference grouping gathers file rows sharing one order reference under a single sales order and auto-numbers their jobs. Learn how it works and when to leave it blank.
What Is the Delay Composition Order in Scheduling?
Queue time, lot-streaming overlap, and transit days are applied to a finished operation in one fixed order. Learn the sequence and why the order changes the answer.
What Is the Labor and Material Cost Basis on a Quote?
A quote's estimated cost is labor plus material: hours times each work center's rate, and material from routing steps or the product unit cost. Learn the exact rule.
What Repeated Machine Swaps Tell You About Your Capacity
Every time work gets bailed out of one station onto another, somebody made a capacity judgment. Counted over a quarter, those swaps are the cheapest capacity evidence you own.
What a Blocker Hint Saves You on Every Late Job
Finding late jobs is easy. Working out why each one is late is where the afternoon goes. A hint that routes you to the right next report turns diagnosis from a search into a lookup.
What the Customer Actually Receives From an EDGEBIC Quote
The Send action produces a quote summary for the rows you checked. See what reaches the customer, why internal notes never leave, and why the status does not move itself.
What the Good Counter Actually Counts
Piece counters only increment during a run punch, so parts made during first article and run-off are real, in the bin, and numerically invisible. Why that is correct, and what to reconcile against instead.
What the Optimizer Needs Before Its First Run
Four prerequisites, only one of which is mandatory. Here is the short checklist before your first optimizer run, and the two messages that tell you a prerequisite is missing.
What to Do When the ERP Export Is Late or Missing
The nightly file did not arrive. Here is why yesterday's plan is still safe to work to, what not to do while you wait, and how to catch up cleanly when the file lands.