Replies posted by nmueller

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CarolinePParticipating Frequently
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

How to Select a precise list of jobs in Job Status Maintenance

Here is what we have done to overcome this is by utilizing Constrained Materials on our BOM items. This prevents our job start dates until material is available, so when our planners go in to Job Status Maintenance and pull the list of jobs by date they can release the group of jobs for today’s date because they would not be available to start without the material. They also utilize the Production Planner workbench to help track shortages.

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nmueller
26 days ago
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sid2023New Participant
asked in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

Sceduling report With Month Close

The way have our Month End Close setup is on a schedule and we utilize a Process Set to run all of our needed processes and reports in sequence. This contains our WIP Capture and necessary subledger reports. Ours is scheduled to run at a specific time each month but if you run yours on demand you can also still utilize a Process set and run it as needed.

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5 months ago
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ktaylor_marottaInspiring
asked in Americas - New York City & New Jersey

How do I view attachments in Kinetic

I believe currently there is no better way other than using the classic as the system stands. There is a Kinetic idea out there and would recommend putting a votes towards it to help generate a development change. Agree its a lot of extra work to get to the documents.Here is a link to the idea, the more votes are applied the more looks it will get from development.https://epicor-manufacturing.ideas.aha.io/ideas/KIN-I-3237  

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nmueller
1 year ago
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skbruewerParticipating Frequently
asked in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

RegalPay Sunset

We have been using the EI for our ACH for 4 years now and have brought multiple companies in to our instance and it has worked really well for us. Getting the supplier data setup is a little bit in the beginning but it is worth it and if there is a possible export of the data from your current service you could us DMT to mass load that in.

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1 year ago
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KelleyVFNew Participant
asked in Americas - Northeast - CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT

Alternate Method - Make Default for Jobs

@KelleyVF Are you utilizing MRP for your job creation? If so you will need to set the Primary Alternate Method in the part maintenance module 

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1 year ago
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JoeHNew Participant
asked in Americas - Midwest - IL, KS, ND, NE, SD

New to Kinetic - Seeking Training Wisdom

Exciting times for you! Did not jump that far in our journey but sounds like fun and should provide some new functionality to help the process. We utilize the Learning center from Epicor for our onboarding and they do have kinetic foundation courses in it. It is the first step of new users and sites we are converting. I recommend it for this amount of change 

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nmueller
1 year ago
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lclementsNew Participant
posted in Americas - Kentucky & Tennessee

Looking for Feedback/ Insight

We have 7 manufacturing sites on Epicor in a multi-company setup and would be willing to discuss how we are doing it. We have a diversity across our sites between high volume/low mix and low volume/high mix. We have cellular and batch manufacturing with contract and MTO parts. 

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nmueller
2 years ago
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MTPPInspiring
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Tracking scrap from job costs

@MTPP we had a site doing this process of scrapping directly from data collection and struggled with the costing side of it. Unless you are taking a snapshot of your job cost at the time this is recorded and storing it in a UD table you will not have an accurate cost. At that site since the labor was minimal on parts and most of the cost in material the scrap calculation was based on material cost x qty scrapped. It was not accurate and last year we moved them to the same process as the rest of our sites in that everything goes thru the DMR process to be scrapped. We turned off the ability to report scrap at data collection. It has provided a much better representation of our scrap cost. It still does not fix the issue where it will reduce the job quantity automatically based on scrap from DMR or data collection which would be great even if that was a configuration trigger, pretty sure there is Epicor idea out there for this.

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nmueller
2 years ago
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cdingasInspiring
posted in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

DropBox vs ECM

We have just started down the path with our ECM rollout but so far it seems to be a much better option for us. We started just using a file share with attachments. They have a cloud or on-prem version available. Unfortunately, we had to use on-prem ECM because the cloud did not meet ITAR requirements but we built our server according to their specs and we will have 8 sites loading documents to it and we are aerospace mfg so there are a lot of documents. It is attached to our government cloud Epicor system and the connection has been simple and worked well.

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2 years ago
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DimKavvNew Participant
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Epicor Collaborate

Adding myself to this topic as I am interested in it also and the benefits of it. Our users have been utilizing MS teams for their quick communication tool. I believe collaborate will help in the sense of having record linkage in the chats but does another tool provide the benefits or create more confusion. Thanks for posting interested to see what users say about it.

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2 years ago
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Ricky.RichardsonParticipating Frequently
asked in Americas - Alabama

Quality Terms

We are an A&D company and have a couple sites with different processes for this. We have some of our sites using this method also and it seems to be working. We also have a couple sites that we added a terms form document that comes out with each PO record. Supplement page with all the terms and then they reference the Q number in the comments that references back to supplement. Some have the terms and quality as part of their boiler plate on the PO.  A lot of the differences is driven by the site and the customer they are serving but are working to a standard process for all.

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2 years ago
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jkalenNew Participant
asked in Americas - Northeast - CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT

Unfirm Jobs with no Due Date

Can you confirm your scheduling process has completed without error in the system monitor? It seems like MRP may have ran and generated the unfirm jobs but the scheduling process has not completed.

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nmueller
2 years ago
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GPHarschNew Participant
asked in Americas - Midwest - IL, KS, ND, NE, SD

Select Customization Help

If you are a SaaS customer you will need to go to actions and copy the menu to the current company and then you can change the customization setting. Do not change the name of the menu or the sequence after the copy just set the customization then close epicor and get back in. 

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2 years ago
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GPHarschNew Participant
asked in Americas - Midwest - IL, KS, ND, NE, SD

Select Customization Help

In order to make the customization the default option that appears for users is to add it to the menu entry for that module thru the menu maintenance module. Once added close Epicor and reopen to see it. 

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2 years ago
nmueller
nmuellerInspiring
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

DMT Job Labor Transactions-Backflush Ops

Monty,After some testing its best to remove the Backflush operations from the data extraction run all your T&Q and Q operations loads in with quantity and cost and then run the Backflush Labor Server Process and it will backfill these costs in the same process if you were running thru the interface. We have not had any sites using Backflush labor until this one so that was newer to me.Sorry should have posted a reply to my original post when I found that.Thank you

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nmueller
2 years ago
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ACombsParticipating Frequently
asked in Americas - Midwest - IL, KS, ND, NE, SD

Re-Ordering based on Expiration Date

To my knowledge the current MRP process does not consider shelf-life in its calculations but been told it is coming in a future release. I do not have specifics on the release of it but was told it is coming. I know it has been a topic and request of multiple companies and seems to have gathered traction.

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nmueller
2 years ago
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bkyleInspiring
posted in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

ADP for payroll ??

We are currently using ADP for our payroll. We use Epicor MES and Time and Expense Entry to track time and then built a BAQ report that exports to our flat file format for an upload into ADP including overtime and shift differentials. Holidays and vacation are only tracked in ADP and calculates against uploaded data. We get our GL entries from ADP and they are booked manually in Epicor.

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nmueller
2 years ago
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