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Insights on production scheduling, lean manufacturing, and manufacturing software from 35+ years of industry experience.
How the platform actually works: scheduling, optimization, the shop floor and ERP data.
SAP Scheduling Gaps (And How EDGEBIC Fills Them)
SAP finite capacity scheduling gaps that plants report: infinite-capacity dates, flat work center capacity, sequence-dependent setups, and slow what-if answers.
SAP to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
SAP data export scheduling field by field: map items, work centers, routings, orders and confirmations into EDGEBIC masks, with conversions and upsert rules.
10 What-If Analysis Mistakes That Produce Confident Wrong Answers
What if analysis mistakes in production scheduling: no baseline, stacked levers, skipped steps that break sequencing, and scenarios nobody made real.
8 Scheduling Run Mistakes That Produce a Plan Nobody Trusts
The production scheduling run mistakes that quietly wreck a plan: wrong scope, stale master data, priorities set too late, and Days Late warnings read as noise.
Eight Setup Matrix Mistakes That Leave Changeover Times Wrong
Setup matrix mistakes in production scheduling: missing family assignments, minutes entered as hours, blank zero cells, and how each one shows up.
Nine Shift and Calendar Setup Mistakes That Quietly Break a Schedule
Shift calendar setup mistakes rarely throw errors: wrong recurring dates, shrunk shifts, per-shift overrides, stale calendars. The symptom and fix for each.
The Daily Epicor + EDGEBIC Scheduling Workflow
The daily scheduling workflow Epicor plants run with EDGEBIC: export jobs and labor, re-run saved masks, one finite capacity run, then dates and lists out.
The Daily Fourth Shift + EDGEBIC Scheduling Workflow
The daily scheduling workflow Fourth Shift sites run: a weekly load, a twenty-minute morning loop, saved masks, and dispatch lists the floor trusts.
The Daily JobBOSS + EDGEBIC Scheduling Workflow
The daily scheduling workflow JobBOSS shops run: morning export, saved import masks, one scheduler run, dispatch lists out, in about twenty minutes.
The Reports That Answer 'Are We On Time?' in EDGEBIC
An on time delivery report for manufacturing is three reports, not one: how EDGEBIC computes late jobs, SPI and CPI, and the on-time trend, with worked numbers.
The Settings That Change How Your Schedule Looks (and the Ones That Change the Plan)
Gantt display settings scheduling teams argue about: which options are cosmetic, which move real work, and the three places the line gets crossed.
TOC Buffers and Direction Precedence in EDGEBIC
How TOC buffer scheduling is sized in EDGEBIC, how backward and forward passes split around the anchor, and which direction wins when several rules could apply.