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EDGEBIC + xTuple: The Complete Scheduling Integration Guide
xTuple production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export items, work centers, bills of operations and work orders, map columns once, schedule at finite capacity.
Exporting Your RMDB or EDGEBI Data to Excel for EDGEBIC
Exporting RMDB data to Excel is the whole first step of an EDGEBIC migration. Send each entity out, map the columns once in an import mask, and re-run the saved mask in one click.
Exporting the EDGEBIC Schedule Back to Your ERP
How to export the production schedule back to your ERP from EDGEBIC: Excel from Job View, work center schedules, dispatch lists, and why there is no automated write-back.
Filtering the EDGEBIC Gantt to the Jobs That Matter
Filter a production Gantt chart in EDGEBIC with the job checkboxes, search box, and date window, so a crowded plant schedule narrows to the one job or handful of jobs you care about.
How a Daily Capacity Override Replaces the Formula
Sometimes a shift's real capacity for one date is not what the standing formula computes. Here is how EDGEBIC lets a per-date override replace the calculation outright, and why the same number drives both the schedule and the dashboard.
How a Job Sticks to the Same Machine Instance
When a work center has several identical machines, EDGEBIC prefers to keep one job on the same instance across shifts and days. Here is why that continuity matters and when the engine relaxes it.
How a Material Step Schedules as an Instant Gate
Material lines in a routing consume no machine capacity, yet they still control when the next operation can start. Here is how EDGEBIC treats a material step as an instant gate on the timeline.
How a Reschedule Protects Completed Work in EDGEBIC
Completed operations are never moved by a reschedule in EDGEBIC: the completed shade marks finished work, actuals stay put, and only unstarted steps are re-planned around history.
How a Schedule Handles a Shift That Crosses Midnight
A night shift that starts in the evening and ends after midnight spans two calendar dates. Here is how EDGEBIC computes the shift's true end, places work across the day boundary, and attributes the hours correctly.
How a Work Center Group Re-Shops Machines on a Reschedule
A group step keeps its pool binding after the first schedule, so a reschedule can re-shop the machines. Started operations keep the machine they ran on, and only not-started ones re-resolve. Here is how EDGEBIC does it.
How Capacity Is Computed for a Work Center, Shift, and Day
The exact formula EDGEBIC uses to turn a shift into available hours: base shift time minus downtime and holidays, scaled by utilization and instances, minus what is already booked and any late-start penalty.
How Efficiency Scales Run Time but Not Setup
A faster or slower machine changes how long the parts take to make, but not how long the changeover takes. Here is why EDGEBIC applies a factor to run hours only, and why a true alternative works differently again.