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Who Owns What: Splitting EDGEBIC Admin Duties
Which EDGEBIC administration duties belong to IT and which belong to planning: the database and backups versus masks, roles, and scheduling policy, with a duty-by-duty split.
A Day in the Life of a Planner: Morning Review to End-of-Day Commit
A planner daily routine walkthrough in EDGEBIC: the 20 minute morning review, the midday interruptions, the afternoon capacity check, and the end-of-day commit that the shop runs on.
A Job Header Date Does Not Match Its Operations: Causes and Fixes
When a job's summary start or end date disagrees with its own earliest and latest operations, the cause is a partial replan that never recomputed the header. How to clear it.
A Kiosk Punch Did Not Appear in the Report: Causes and Fixes
When a shop floor punch is missing from a report, the cause is usually an open punch, a punch type that does not count as productive, or a date window that misses it.
A Monthly Capacity Override Was Ignored: Causes and Fixes
When a date-range capacity override does not change the plan, the cause is usually a daily override on the same date, a stale run, or a share split you did not expect.
A New Planner's First Week: From First Sign-In to a Schedule the Shop Trusts
A new planner onboarding walkthrough in EDGEBIC: five days from first sign-in to a committed schedule, with what to read, what to run, and what to leave alone.
A Permission Change Did Not Take Effect: Causes and Fixes
When a granted permission does not reach the user, the usual cause is that the session captured its permission set at sign-in. Why a re-login is required and what else to check.
A Quarter-End Push: Clearing 22 Late Jobs in Three Weeks
A quarter-end backlog push walkthrough in EDGEBIC: triage the late jobs report, resequence by priority, buy targeted capacity, and run the optimizer for the last mile.
A Quote Cost Came Back at Zero: Causes and Fixes
A quote that prices at zero usually has missing work center rates, a material fallback with no unit cost behind it, or a simulation that produced no scheduled hours.
A Quote Will Not Convert to an Order: Causes and Fixes
Conversion runs three guards before it creates a job: an already-converted status, an existing linked job, and a job number collision. How to tell which one stopped you.
A Report Shows No Rows for a Date Range That Has Jobs: Causes and Fixes
An empty report over a window that clearly has jobs usually means the report reads actuals, not the plan. How to tell which source a report uses and get rows back.
A Tab I Expect Is Missing: Causes and Fixes
When a module tab you expect is not on screen, the cause is almost always a permission code your roles do not grant. How to find the missing code and restore the tab.