Job Management
Better planning and costing with historical run analysis
The Epicor Kinetic Job Management module in the Operations Core Package is a comprehensive production control solution designed specifically for the planning, routing, scheduling, costing, and tracking of goods—including assembled, manufactured, and semi-finished products. It includes innovative tools for better planning and costing with historical run analysis that compares estimates to actuals on a run-by-run basis
Epicor Kinetic Job Management's Main Features
Planning Workbench
Access all job-related actions in a single view—the creation of new jobs, changing job requirements to match changing demand, and allocating and reallocating jobs to satisfy changing customer demand.
The planning workbench allows seamless access to the scheduling board for more detailed job management.
Job Costing
Compare actuals to estimates online, review job costing for materials, material burden, subcontracting, and operations (labor/burden), and compare projected and actual billings for profitability analysis.
Job costing can be performed on a job-by-job, customer, part-product group, or overall company basis.
Job costing can be performed on a job-by-job, customer, part-product group, or overall company basis.
Production Planners Workbench
The Production Planners Workbench is a dashboard that provides an overview of the material shortages of the selected jobs. Although this information is already available in each job, this overview gives the job planner a tool to gather information for multiple jobs quickly.
Job Manager
Quickly review the relationship between production jobs and demand.
Make changes to the production plan to accommodate new and changing demand.
Make changes to the production plan to accommodate new and changing demand.
Order-to-Job Linking
Handle one job or one delivery, one job or multiple deliveries, blanket production runs, and internal work orders to build parts to finished goods inventory.
New/Change Order Notifications
Handle one job or one delivery, one job or multiple deliveries, blanket production runs, and internal work orders to build parts to finished goods inventory.
Drag-and-Drop Interface
Simplify the planning process.
Use a tree interface to drag-and-drop components, operations, or direct materials from another quote, BOM, or previously run job.
Job Tracker
Review a specific job, and check the status of all assemblies, operations, and materials, including subcontract status.
Material Shortage Indicator
Query material availability at job entry to determine whether jobs can be started within the scheduled time period.
Assemblies
Produce routings, costing, and tracking of single or multiple-level parts.
Scheduling
Schedule jobs based on forward, backward, what-if, finite, and infinite capacity.
Backflush
Backflush labor and/or materials for a single assembly, branch, or entire job.
Planned Overproduction of Assemblies
Produce and auto-receive overproduction quantities to inventory.
Productivity
Track and analyze efficiency and utilization figures by employee, operation, work center, and department.
Quality Control
Extensively track and analyze scrap, rework, and added operations.
Yield Scrap
Everyone has it. Yield Scrap. This functionality offers the ability for scrap reporting at an operation to affect the estimated production quantity of subsequent operations if the scrap exceeds a predetermined scrap allowance. Some users may want a warning others may want automated predefined actions.