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Running EDGEBIC Alongside Your ERP's Scheduling Module
You do not have to switch off the ERP's scheduling module to add finite capacity planning. Here is the division of labor, which dates win, and how to avoid running two plans.
Should You Trust Your ERP's Standard Times?
Import the standards you have, then prove them against actual hours before re-timing anything. A method for finding which routing standards are wrong and which ones matter.
Specifying the ERP Export You Need From IT
How to write a request your ERP report writer can build in one pass: the columns, the filter, the grain, the naming, and the five questions that prevent a second round trip.
Testing an Import Mask Change Before the Live Run
A five-step way to prove an import mask edit before it touches real data: a ten-row slice, updates off, the count check, the hour arithmetic, then the full file.
The Schedule Looks Different on Two Screens: Causes and Fixes
Two people on one EDGEBIC database seeing different schedules is almost always the age of a view or a personal display setting, not a disagreement in the data. The checks, cheapest first.
What an ERP Integration Costs in Hours Per Week
A realistic time budget for running an ERP to EDGEBIC integration: the one-time mask build, the recurring weekly minutes, and the four things that make the number grow.
What Changes When EDGEBIC Moves to a Shared Database
Moving EDGEBIC from one workstation to a shared SQL Server changes three assumptions at once: who may overwrite whom, how an open screen stays current, and who may run the scheduler.
What Is a BOR Change Type in Routing Comparison?
A BOR change type classifies how a routing differs from the snapshot a job was scheduled against: work center, timing, requirements, sequence, or structural.
What Is a BOR Work Center Type in a Routing?
A BOR work center type is the step-level setting choosing normal, independent parallel, or dependent parallel behavior. Learn how it differs from the machine's own type.
What Is a Continuous-Process Model Mismatch Check?
This check flags a transfer batch set on a step that ran on a continuous-process machine, where the piece-count overlap model can never fire. Definition and fix.
What Is a Dead-Field Check in Scheduling?
A dead-field check flags routing values the scheduler never reads, so a planner learns move and teardown hours have no effect before they are trusted.
What Is a KPI Tile in a Manufacturing Dashboard? EDGEBIC Definition
A KPI tile is one metric plus its target, trend, provenance and formula. See the seven parts of an EDGEBIC tile and why an unavailable metric shows a dash.