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Looking for some guidance on releasing of jobs in Epicor

We release jobs 2 weeks prior to the planned start date. We use the Production Planner Workbench to identify all production jobs scheduled to start in that 2 week window as well as if there are any missing parts. The jobs get released regardless of part status and our Material Management team gets a list of jobs with missing parts to status.  If it’s determined parts won’t arrive on time, Planning is notified and makes the decision whether or not to start it with the missing parts. If the decision is NOT to start it, jobs are unreleased. We went live in December 2020 and this is a still evolving process for us, but this seems to be working fairly well. We also created a custom dashboard to bring visibility to released status, operation and job completion status, % material issued, so we can quickly see what jobs are released, which ones are in process, which have materials picked but aren’t started and which have been released, but materials aren’t issued. That dashboard has been the

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jmeyerParticipating Frequently
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Looking for some guidance on releasing of jobs in Epicor

I have receiving release jobs when they receive materials. That way it is easy to tell if a job has materials available by it's status.  Especially helpful with purchased materials with long lead times. Thanks for the response! In your scenario here, how does purchasing get there suggestions on what and when to purchase these materials without the job being released?

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