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My Firmed Job Quantity Is Higher Than the MPS Bucket: Causes and Fixes
Firming an MPS bucket rounds a fractional build quantity up to a whole number, so a small difference is expected. When the gap is real and how to read it.
My On-Hand Balance Went Negative: Causes and Fixes
A negative ledger total on a stocked part means more was issued than received. How to tell a temporary timing gap from a missing receipt and correct it properly.
Onboarding a New Planner Account in EDGEBIC
How to onboard a new planner in EDGEBIC safely: assign a role rather than build one, force a first-login password change, and widen access only when they hit a real wall.
Protecting Administrator Access in EDGEBIC
Why every EDGEBIC site needs two administrators, what the founding account can and cannot do, and how to keep admin access working when the person holding it leaves.
Reconciling ERP Work Order Quantities After Partial Completion
How to import work order quantities from an ERP once a job is partly finished: original versus remaining quantity, avoiding double subtraction, and closing jobs that leave the export.
Running a Restore Drill for Your EDGEBIC Database
A backup you have never restored is a hypothesis. Here is a one-hour EDGEBIC restore drill: restore into a separate database, verify the plan, and record how long it took.
Scheduling a Shop That Runs Two ERPs
One shop floor, two systems of record: how to feed both into a single finite capacity model, namespace colliding part numbers, and avoid double-counting the same demand.
Setting Up a Training Copy of EDGEBIC
How to run a training or test copy of EDGEBIC beside production: a second database name on the DataSource tab, what a fresh database starts with, and how to reset it between classes.
Several Anomaly Checks Fired on One Job: Which One to Fix First
When one job trips four anomaly checks at once, most of them are symptoms. The documented pairings that share a root cause and the order to work them in.
The Anomaly Report Still Lists a Problem I Fixed: Causes and Fixes
An anomaly row that survives a fix usually means the schedule was never regenerated. Why the report reads stored state and how to clear a finding for real.
The Four EDGEBIC Roles Most Plants Need
Planner, shop supervisor, read-only, and data entry: the four EDGEBIC roles that cover almost every plant, what each one grants, and what each deliberately leaves out.
The Quarterly EDGEBIC Admin Health Check
A quarterly admin health check for EDGEBIC: review accounts and roles, prove a backup restores, confirm import masks still match their files, and re-read scheduling policy.