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Insights on production scheduling, lean manufacturing, and manufacturing software from 35+ years of industry experience.
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8 Projection and Available to Promise Mistakes That Cost You Orders
Available to promise mistakes look like software faults and are not. Here are eight projection misreadings, the symptom each produces, and the correct reading.
Eight Queue Time and Transit Setup Mistakes That Distort a Schedule
Queue time setup mistakes in production scheduling: vendor waits in the wrong field, calendar versus working transit, padded buffers, and how each one shows up.
10 Manufacturing Quoting Mistakes That Cost You the Margin
Manufacturing quoting mistakes that survive review: zero work-center rates, direction confusion, stale simulations, and prices bumped instead of overridden.
Reading a Red Day on the EDGEBIC Capacity View
A capacity overload dashboard is only useful if you know what to do next: how EDGEBIC computes a red cell, what it means, and the playbook to clear it.
8 Ways Planners Misread Manufacturing Reports (and the Fixes)
Misreading manufacturing reports costs more than missing them: eight traps in EDGEBIC reports, the symptom each shows, and how to read the number correctly.
8 Manufacturing Metric Definitions Planners Get Wrong
Manufacturing metric definitions that look alike and are not: complete, available, utilization, backlog, late and the rest, as EDGEBIC actually defines them.
Nine Production Rescheduling Mistakes That Make a Correct Run Look Broken
Production rescheduling mistakes: stale actuals, full-scope churn, unsaved drags, fake pins, and forgotten overrides, with the symptom each one produces.
8 Manufacturing Routing Mistakes That Distort Your Schedule
Manufacturing routing mistakes that wreck schedules: batch hours in per-unit fields, broken sequence links, misused queue time, and dead fields nobody reads.
Eight Routing Snapshot Mistakes That Surprise Planners
Routing snapshot mistakes: bulk resets, skipped comparisons, assumed version history, and unverified designer steps, each with its symptom and its fix.
Sage Scheduling Gaps (And How EDGEBIC Fills Them)
Sage finite capacity scheduling gaps small manufacturers report: capacity as one number, one setup per operation, invisible bottlenecks, whiteboard math.
Sage to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
Sage data export scheduling field by field: map items, work centers, routings, work orders and labor into EDGEBIC masks, with conversions and upsert rules.
8 Sales Order Management Mistakes That Distort Demand
Sales order management mistakes in scheduling: orders stuck in draft, deletes that remove jobs, duplicate imported lines, and shipped quantities nobody updates.