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How to Set the Forecast Consumption Rule in EDGEBIC
Choose how forecast and firm demand combine in EDGEBIC: Greater Of or Minus Consumed, so orders do not double-count against your forecast in the projection.
How Visual Scheduling Shortens Planner Onboarding
A visual schedule teaches a new planner what a spreadsheet hides: how a Gantt that shows load, sequence, and slack cuts the time to a productive first month.
I Firmed My Purchase Orders and the Schedule Did Not Move
Firming a buy item from the MRP worklist raises a draft purchase order, and draft supplies the scheduler nothing. Why that is the right default, and the two steps that finish the job.
Low-Level Codes: Why Every Item Is Planned Exactly Once
A shared component appears at different depths in different bills. The low-level code is the single number that decides when it gets planned, and planning it early quietly hides shortages.
Mapping RMDB Terms to EDGEBIC Terms: A Crosswalk
An RMDB to EDGEBIC terminology crosswalk. See how the scheduling concepts you already know map to EDGEBIC names, plus the new terms the next-generation engine adds.
Migrating Alternate Work Center Routings to EDGEBIC
Have routings with alternate or parallel machines? Here is how to move the primary routing through the import mask and rebuild alternate and parallel work centers in EDGEBIC.
Migrating Capacity and Utilization Settings to EDGEBIC
Moving work centers to EDGEBIC means carrying over the capacity knobs: instances, efficiency, batch sizes, and the one-per-day and bottleneck flags. Here is how to migrate them, and where a legacy utilization target goes.
Migrating From a Homegrown Spreadsheet Scheduler to EDGEBIC
Outgrown a homegrown spreadsheet scheduler? Here is how to map your columns into EDGEBIC import masks and move from a fragile workbook to finite capacity scheduling.
Migrating From a Whiteboard or Magnet Board to EDGEBIC
Moving off a scheduling whiteboard or magnet board? Here is how to capture the tribal knowledge on that board into EDGEBIC master data and schedule with finite capacity.
Migrating From an Abandoned MRP Scheduling Module to EDGEBIC
Your ERP has a scheduling module nobody trusts, so the real plan lives in a spreadsheet. Here is how to move that shadow schedule into EDGEBIC and finite capacity.
My Bottleneck Flag Did Nothing Without a Target Date: Why, and the Fix
Marking a work center as a bottleneck enables anchor scheduling, but anchor scheduling needs a target date to schedule around. Without one, the job schedules forward and the flag looks inert.
My High-Priority Job Scheduled Behind a Lower One: Why, and the Fix
Priority sets the order jobs claim capacity, not a guarantee of the earliest finish. A high-priority job can still land later when it does not compete for the same resource.