Does anyone have a better solution than backflushing labor or having it split the labor evenly when starting multiple activities at once? We run a machine shop and have operators that will have a primary CNC machine that they work on and will have other machines that they will put less time to over the same overall period of time. So the weight of time would be heavier on the primary than a second or third machine that they would just be loading when time permits.
For Time & Qty (start/end activity) labor entry defined operations, Epicor is pretty good about splitting labor hours when 2 operations are clocked in by one employee in some overlapping period. You can also get it to split burden if the resource group/resources are set up to do so,
On E9, it would only split Production activity clocked into in overlap. On E10, it will split Set up & production that are overlapping.
The ‘split’ is on the hours recorded. 2 job OPs started simultaneously and and ended after 4 hours will have 2 Labor Hrs recorded in each. (If you’re not splitting burden, you will see 4 burden hours each where burden is the true elapsed time.)
It is a little flaky… I’ve never seen it split more than 2 ways (being clocked into activity on more than 2 job OPs doesn’t split it more than 2 ways) and I’ve seen (many) cases where the employee clocking into a start activity later while still active in an activity starting earlier doesn’t seem to detect the condition at all and doesn’t split overlapping activity properly.
If you do try it in some more widespread manner, weigh the realities of you employees being likely to very accurately report start/end activities versus the mushier way of using Qty reporting labor that uses routed standard hours and the resource/resource groups default labor rates.
Also be aware that if you have supervisors with time and expense entry who feel the need to edit labor after the fact (editing clock in/out times and perhaps qty, scrap qty or NC qty), They can wipe out split calculated hours simply by changing the start or end time and tabbing through. (It recalc’s the burden and labor hours that may have been systemically split correctly beforehand & applies the full duration of stop/end minus defined breaks.)
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