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How a Forecast Becomes a Replenishment Suggestion in EDGEBIC
Follow the exact path a demand forecast takes to become a build suggestion: gross requirements, projected balance, reorder trigger, lot sizing, and yield.
How a Plan Absorbs a Late Material Delivery
How a finite capacity plan reflects a late material delivery: model the arrival as a material step or job start, reschedule, and let downstream shift while completed work stays.
How a Reschedule Keeps Inventory Consistent in EDGEBIC
Reschedule the same order twice and on-hand still reconciles. Here is the reverse-then-repost design that keeps at most one live consume issue per order.
How a Schedule Accounts for Scrap and Yield Loss
If a routing loses parts to scrap, you must start more than you ship. Here is where EDGEBIC inflates the quantity for you, where you size it yourself, and how to get the number right.
How a Scheduler Absorbs a Rush Order Without Wrecking the Plan
A finite capacity scheduler slots a rush order in by priority, preserves started and completed work, and reflows only the unstarted future, so you see exactly which jobs slip.
How a Scheduler Decides When to Start a Job
How a finite capacity scheduler sets each operation's start time: the later of release and prerequisite end, then a forward search for real capacity, with numbers.
How a Scheduler Handles a Shared Tool or Fixture
How to schedule a shared fixture, die, or mold in a finite capacity plan: give the tool a quantity, require it on the routing step, and let contention across every machine become real.
How a Scheduler Thinks About a Week vs a Day
A finite capacity scheduler treats the near term as executable and the far term as directional. Here is how horizon and granularity change what a plan is really for.
How a Stockout Shows Up Before It Happens in EDGEBIC
A stockout is visible weeks out, not on the day the shelf empties. Here is how projected balance, the safety flag, and days of cover surface it early enough to act.
How Available-to-Promise Answers a Sales Question in EDGEBIC
When sales asks can we ship 150 by week 3, available-to-promise gives a safe answer. Here is how EDGEBIC reads the cumulative ATP column to say yes or no.
How Build-to-Stock and Consume-from-Stock Work Together in EDGEBIC
Build-to-stock posts a receipt when an order completes; consume-from-stock posts an issue when demand is met from stock. Here is how the two halves close one loop.
How EDGEBIC Is Tested: The Quality Story for Buyers
How EDGEBIC is tested: the three-layer test suite, regression gates, and dual-database checks that keep your production schedule correct as the software evolves.