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A Tour of EDGEBIC Options and Settings
A map of the EDGEBIC Settings and Options screens: datasource, users and roles, scheduler display, scheduling policy, the optimizer engine, and data management.
Adding a Second Shift to Break a Bottleneck in EDGEBIC
Find the bottleneck, add a night shift to it in the Work Centers editor, reschedule, and watch a week of late heat-treat jobs recover, with the capacity math shown before and after.
Administering Grid Layouts in EDGEBIC
How EDGEBIC saves grid and panel layouts per user, why new columns still appear, and how an admin resets a drifted layout without losing anyone's work.
Administering Scheduled ERP Syncs in EDGEBIC
How EDGEBIC's Integration tab runs scheduled and file-watched imports on interval, keeps run history, monitors live runs, and lets you test a sync with the built-in simulator.
Backward Scheduling a Job From Its Due Date in EDGEBIC
Schedule a 40-piece order backward so it finishes just in time, reserve the delivery lead time, and see what happens when the plan does not fit, with full date arithmetic.
Building a Master Production Schedule in EDGEBIC, Bucket by Bucket
Read the MPS grid for a stocked product, catch a projected stockout, commit a build quantity, and firm it into a scheduled build-to-stock order in EDGEBIC, with every number shown.
CSV vs Database View: ERP Export Tradeoffs for EDGEBIC
When to feed EDGEBIC a CSV or Excel file versus a read-only database view: inspectability, automation, permissions, and how the import mask handles both the same way.
Deactivating Users and Offboarding in EDGEBIC
How to offboard someone from EDGEBIC the right way: deactivate rather than delete, reassign their work, and keep the audit trail attributable, all through users and roles.
EDGEBIC Actual Live Monitoring Explained: Progress on the Routing
How the EDGEBIC live actual view overlays real progress onto a job's routing diagram, so you watch actual against planned step by step on a read-only board that changes nothing.
EDGEBIC Daily Capacity Overrides Explained: Change One Day's Hours
How EDGEBIC lets you override a single work center's capacity for a single day, for overtime or a short shift, without editing the standing shift calendar, and how the override wins where it applies.
EDGEBIC + ECI M1: The Complete Scheduling Integration Guide
ECI M1 production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export items, work centers, routings and jobs to CSV, map columns once, and schedule at finite capacity.
EDGEBIC + Fulcrum: The Complete Scheduling Integration Guide
Fulcrum production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export items, work centers, routings and work orders to CSV, map columns once, and schedule at finite capacity.