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What Is a Punch Adjustment in Shop Floor Tracking?
A punch adjustment is a supervisor-authored correction to a production punch, carrying the old value, the new value, a reason, and the adjuster's name. Here is how it works.
What Is a Quote Status in Manufacturing Quoting?
A quote status is the lifecycle stage of a customer quote, from Draft through Submitted, Approved, and finally Converted into a manufacturing order. Here is the quote lifecycle explained.
What Is a Sales Order Status in Production Planning?
A sales order status is the lifecycle stage of a customer order, from Draft through Confirmed, Shipped, and Closed. Confirmed lines count as firm demand for planning. Here it is explained.
What Is a Work Center Shift in Scheduling?
A work center shift assigns a specific shift, optionally with override hours, to a specific work center, letting one machine's hours differ from the global default. Here it is explained.
What Is a Work Center Type in Manufacturing Scheduling?
A work center type classifies what a resource does, such as Production, Assembly, Quality, Shipping, or Maintenance. Here is how the work center type is used and what it means.
What Is an Inventory Receipt Transaction?
An inventory receipt is a positive movement posted to the ledger when goods are received or a manufacturing order completes, raising the on-hand balance. Here it is explained.
What Is Forward Netting in Inventory Planning?
Forward netting projects supply forward in time and nets demand against time-phased receipts, not just point-in-time on-hand, so a later build can satisfy a later need. Here it is explained.
What Is Material Requirements Planning (MRP)?
Material requirements planning explodes a bill of materials, nets against inventory, and time-offsets the result into planned make or buy orders. Here is MRP explained.
Why a Mid-Job Reschedule Keeps Your Finished Work
The reason shops fear rescheduling is that it usually scrambles completed operations. When a reschedule never moves finished work, replanning stops being scary.
Why the Continuous-Process Flag Lives on the Machine
Why the continuous-process setting is a property of the work center, not the routing, how it selects the lot-streaming model, and the anomaly that flags a model mismatch.
Why the Optimizer Treats Due Dates as Soft Targets
The EDGEBIC optimizer models due dates as strongly weighted targets, not hard walls, so it always returns the best achievable plan even when some dates cannot be met.
A Phased Migration Plan to EDGEBIC
A phased migration to EDGEBIC moves one cell at a time while RMDB stays the system of record. Import, verify, pilot, and widen, so risk stays contained and no cutover is ever forced.