Topics started by dinman

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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Any reason to not use Constrained Materials at all?

Is there any good reason to not use constrained materials at all?We turned that on for purchased parts last August after not using it at all for over 3 years since Go Live. We did it in conjunction with starting to use Global Scheduling on a recurring scheduled process. (After several months of that, I was told to turn it off, my objections never being heard.)With the constrained materials turned on, now our unfirmed jobs created by MRP would get rescheduled out according to availability/lead time of purchased parts, which to me makes logical sense that you would want that to happen—especially since our Sales department puts basically every order arbitrarily inside of lead time. And when we were using Global Scheduling, this would happen with our firmed jobs; now we just have a ever-growing bunch of firmed jobs locked into past dates that we can't finish today due to material not being available. But now it's being suggested to me that maybe we need to also turn off Constrained Materia

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1 year ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Reentering ECO Group when checking out part in Engineering Workbook

We’re currently testing Epicor 11 (Kinetic 2021.1) and have discovered that if you go into Engineering Workbench, input an ECO Group, then go to Actions > Check Out Part that it does not pull the ECO Group into that dialog box and you have to enter it again in order to be able to check out a part.Is this the way that it is supposed to work and always has, or is this something to put in an EpicCare ticket about?In our Live environment (version 10.2.700.12) the ECO Group does auto-populate if already entered in Engineering Workbench, and I cannot find a BPM that we created for it to do this. Which is why I’m asking if either the Kinetic 2021.1 or our Live environment behavior is the expected behavior.  

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1 year ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

BPM Condition contains wildcard?

I've written a BPM that send up an exception when certain part numbers are entered on Sales Orders, based on our part number nomenclature. Unfortunately, over the years this nomenclature hasn't been strictly adhered to, so I'm having to get "extra" to exclude the correct parts and cannot get a wildcard to work correctly in a condition.For example, a standard part number may be something like A1454C-3-CI, where the "-3-" refers to the part category. Those are easy to exclude. However, there's also ones like A1454C-3PBA-CI, so I'm trying to get it to trigger on part numbers that contain "-3%-", but that string doesn't work. It doesn't like my percent sign between the 3 and the dash. Works great in a BAQ, but can't get it to work in the BPM, even though it doesn't throw any syntax errors.Is there a different wildcard that I should be using than % (already tried both * and ^ to no different results).

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1 year ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Auto Job Completion/Closing causing Non-Qty Bearing on hand to go negative

Has anyone had any experience with the Auto Job Completion and/or Auto Job Closing processes causing non-Qty Bearing parts to go negative on hand?We have some nuts/bolts/etc. that we have set up as not Quantity Bearing (and Non-Stock = False) because they are VMI, but we are seeing something weird where some of these parts are still going negative on hand. Through trial and error with one part, it appears to me that it is the Auto Job Completion or Closing process that is causing this to happen, because a backflush or mass issue of the parts to the job by any other means is not causing the inventory to go negative. I’ve got a case open with EpicCare on this and am trying some things to try to pinpoint the root cause, but am hoping someone else has seen this and knows what causes it.

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2 years ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

BPM to Set PORel Plant & Warehouse to POHeader Plant

How do I set the Plant and Warehouse on a newly created PO Release to be the same site as the Ship To on the PO Header, as well as the default warehouse for that site?The system defaults to setting it to the current site signed into, rather than the site chosen on the PO Header when a new PO Release is created (whether through creation of a new line or a new release on an existing line). Currently on Public Cloud version 2021.1.11

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2 years ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Ship from stock still in inventory after packed

While most of our finished goods are set up as non-stock (i.e. they default to Make to Order and ship from the job/WIP), we still sell a large number of parts from stock. However, we’ve discovered that after we create a packID and add parts to it, the parts remain in inventory until they are shipped. This causes a big hassle when one of these parts that is waiting to ship comes up on cycle count, because then the counter has to track down where it is physically located due to it not actually being in that inventory location.Is there anyway to get those items out of inventory, like into some sort of WIP, where they are no longer in an inventory location, until they ship and the final ...-CUS transaction occurs?

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2 years ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

How to handle DMR material not processed in same day

In regard to DMR material from a job, if it is not dispositioned the same day, then when we run MRP (scheduled nightly) the system sees unfulfilled demand and spits out new supply suggestions. If we decide that the material can be used then we don’t need more material to be issued, another job to be created, or more material purchased to fulfill this specific demand.It is my understanding that this is how the system is designed to work, but is there anyway to get it to ignore DMR material that is limbo? (we are on dedicated tenant on 10.2.700)

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3 years ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Are you supposed to be able to add Phantom BOM to Sales Order Line?

Is Epicor supposed to allow you to add a Phantom BOM part number to a Sales Order Line?I thought that I read somewhere that it will not allow you to add a Phantom BOM to an order (can’t find that source again) and it seems logical that the system would restrict you to do so.However, our setup is allowing our Sales people to add Phantom BOM parts--as regular parts, not parts on the fly--to a sales order line.Is that how the system is designed to work? (We are currently Mutli-Tenant on 10.2.700.10)

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3 years ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

How do you use Forecast Entry to forecast configurable parts?

Currently to forecast some of our demand of our configurable Finished Goods we create firmed jobs for the top-level Phantom on a particular BOM, but it hasn’t worked out as well as we’d like simply because all the way down the BOM it is “static” demand, unless we make it “dynamic” by keeping it up with a lot of manual watching/manipulating.So I have been playing around with using Forecast Entry to enter a proper forecast (for all non-phantom child parts on a BOM) that will consume the forecast as we fulfill that expected demand. However, the Epicor Help on Forecast Entry notes this about the forecast created:As sales orders are created for a specific part, the MRP engine uses the quantities on these sales orders to determine the Consumed Quantity value on forecasts.Well, that doesn’t really work when it won’t allow you to enter a forecast for a configurable part and the configurable part is what would get entered on the Sales Order, not the components. So I can import a forecast for al

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3 years ago
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dinmanBrainy
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

How to know when to pick non-Qty bearing parts for an order

We are testing out how to setup our VMI parts and other consumables, which we have determined that non-quantity bearing is the way to go so that they still show up on the BOM/Traveler and pick lists.Epicor help states that non-quantity bearing parts can still be sold. However, because they are non-quantity bearing they will not show up in Fulfillment workbench. Our warehouse uses the fulfillment workbench to determine which parts orders they need to process.If non-quantity bearing parts (understandably) do not appear in fulfillment workbench, how is our warehouse to know when to pick/ship these items when they are ordered, especially if they are ever the only thing on the order?

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3 years ago
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