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What Is Variance in Manufacturing Scheduling?
Variance is the difference between planned and actual values: dates, hours, and cost. Learn how EDGEBIC tracks it and why it drives better next plans.
What Is Yield in Manufacturing Scheduling?
Yield is the fraction of input that becomes good output, used to inflate start quantities so the right number of good units survives. Here is yield explained.
What 'Not Stocked' Means for a Product's Planning in EDGEBIC
Marking a product as not stocked in EDGEBIC skips all inventory netting, ledger posting, and replenishment. Learn when to use it, the make-to-stock trap it creates, and how to reverse it.
What the EDGEBIC Kiosk Does When the Network Drops
The kiosk reads and writes the shared database live and has no offline mode. Learn the honest fallback: punch when the connection returns or use Manual Entry after the fact.
When Safety Stock Becomes a Hard Floor in EDGEBIC
Safety stock in EDGEBIC is a replenishment trigger by default, not a consumption floor. Learn the difference, when to make it a hard floor, and why the default lets stock go below it.
Why a Bottleneck Needs a Target Date to Anchor a Schedule
Why marking a work center as the bottleneck is not enough to trigger anchor scheduling in EDGEBIC, and how a target start date on the constraint step activates it.
Why a Replenishment Suggestion Does Not Lift Projected Balance Until You Firm It
In EDGEBIC a replenishment suggestion is advice, not supply. Learn why it does not roll into projected balance, why later buckets still show shortfalls, and what firming changes.
Why a Stable Schedule Cuts Your Premium Freight Bill
Air freight and hot-shot trucking are the price of a schedule that surprised you late. Stable, honest scheduling moves the surprise weeks earlier, when ground freight still works.
Why Finite Scheduling Shrinks Lead Times
Finite scheduling shrinks lead times by exposing hidden queue, sequencing out idle gaps, and overlapping steps with transfer batches. See the mechanism with worked numbers.
Why Negative Projected Balance and ATP Are Information in EDGEBIC
A negative projected balance or available-to-promise in EDGEBIC is a signal, not an error. Learn what below-zero numbers mean, why the plan surfaces them, and how to resolve them.
Why Overdue Orders Pile Into Today's Planning Bucket in EDGEBIC
In EDGEBIC, overdue supply and demand clamp into today's planning bucket so nothing vanishes into the past. Learn how to read the pile-up and clear the backlog it exposes.
Why Sequence Matters More Than Speed on a Setup-Heavy Line
On a setup-heavy line, the order you run jobs in beats raw machine speed, because changeover time dominates. See why resequencing can beat a faster machine, with worked numbers.