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Who Owns the ERP Import Routine on Your Team
How to assign ownership of an ERP to EDGEBIC import routine: who writes the export, who runs the mask, who reads the counts, and who covers the week the planner is out.
Why EDGEBIC Refuses a Stale Save Instead of Overwriting
When two planners edit the same record, EDGEBIC refuses the second save rather than applying it over the first. How the version check works, what it covers, and where it deliberately does not.
Why Only One EDGEBIC Scheduling Run Happens at a Time
On a shared database, a plant-wide rule admits exactly one scheduling run. Why two overlapping runs would produce a plan that is nobody's answer, and what the second planner sees.
Why Your ERP Sync Belongs on a Server, Not a Workstation
By default any open EDGEBIC workstation can dispatch scheduled integrations. On a shared database that is the wrong place for them. What the always-on sync host does and how to hand hosting over to it.
A Make-to-Stock Product Cannot Hold Inventory: Causes and Fixes
When a make-to-stock product has the stocked flag off, builds post no receipts and nothing nets against it. How to spot the mismatch and turn stocking back on.
A Monthly ERP to EDGEBIC Data Audit
A 45 minute monthly audit that catches the slow drift a per-import check misses: phantom work centers, stale jobs, reverted instance counts, and standard times reality has moved past.
A Product Yield Value Is Out of Range: Causes and Fixes
Yield must sit between zero and one. A yield of zero blocks the build quantity calculation and a yield above one inflates nothing. How to spot and correct both.
A Run Failed With a Resource Shift Mismatch: Causes and Fixes
A shift mismatch means a slot was allocated and then rejected because it fell outside every configured shift. How it differs from no capacity and how to fix it.
A Satisfied-From-Stock Job Did Not Draw Down Inventory: Causes and Fixes
When a job is marked satisfied from stock but the ledger shows no consumption, on-hand is overstated. Why the issue entry goes missing and how to post it.
A Satisfied-From-Stock Job Still Shows a Work Center Row: Causes and Fixes
A fully covered job should carry one material-shaped row and no machine work. Why a work center row appears on it and what it breaks downstream.
A Work Center Is Booked Past Its Shift Design: Causes and Fixes
A warning that daily bookings exceed the shift-design cap means planned overtime or a stale shift setting, not a physically impossible schedule. How to tell which.
Anomaly Checks Show Nothing When I Filter to One Job: Causes and Fixes
Inventory and setup matrix anomaly checks return no rows on a single-job scan because they are plant-wide. How to read the chip strip and pick the right scope.