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What Are Lost Hours in a Production Schedule?
Lost hours are hours a routing demands that the schedule never actually booked. Definition, the half-hour threshold, why completed steps are excluded, and how EDGEBIC reports them.
What Changes in EDGEBIC When You Replace Your ERP
Swapping ERPs while keeping your scheduler: what survives untouched, which masks get rebuilt, why identifier continuity is the whole risk, and how to keep scheduling through cutover.
What Happens When Two Admins Save the Same Record in EDGEBIC
EDGEBIC uses last-write-wins: two people saving the same work center means the second save overwrites the first silently. Here is why, and the working rules that prevent it.
What Is a Configuration Gap Check in Scheduling?
A configuration gap check flags a schedule built on master data that no longer supports it: a work center with no shifts, an orphan machine instance, or hours beyond the window. Definition and how EDGEBIC reports it.
What Is a Consistency Drift Check in Scheduling?
A consistency drift check catches two stores of the same number disagreeing: allocation hours versus daily breakdowns, mirror dates versus their parent, header dates versus their operations. Definition and how EDGEBIC reports it.
What Is a Lot Streaming Configuration Check?
A lot streaming configuration check finds overlap settings that silently do nothing: flow lag on an alternate machine, flow with queue, flow with transfer batch, and a batch bigger than the order. Definition and how EDGEBIC reports it.
What Is a Next-in-Sequence Link in a Routing?
A next-in-sequence link is the arrow that says which step follows this one. It, not the sequence number, is what the scheduler actually follows. Definition, join points, and how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Is a Rate Variant in Actuals Tracking?
A rate variant is a day whose real pieces-per-hour differs from the rate the schedule planned with. See where EDGEBIC shows it and what a persistent gap tells you.
What Is a Setup Matrix Hygiene Check?
A setup matrix hygiene check finds changeover cells that can never apply: negatives, duplicates, self-pairs, and cells pointing at deleted products or families. Definition and how EDGEBIC reports it.
What Is a Transit Days Configuration Check?
A transit days configuration check catches working-day transit that silently falls back to calendar days, and audits which mode your routing steps are actually in. Definition and how EDGEBIC reports it.
What Is an Alternative Selection Mode in Scheduling?
Alternative selection mode is the choice between letting the engine pick a machine automatically and pinning specific steps to specific machines by hand. Definition, how the two mix, and how EDGEBIC uses it.
What Is an Inventory Integrity Check in Planning?
An inventory integrity check compares the on-hand number against the ledger that produced it, and audits the flags that let a product hold stock at all. Definition and how EDGEBIC reports it.