custhe
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Hello List,
Does anyone have any experience/recommendations to share regarding Shop Floor Labor Collection systems, to integrate with XE? We’re a small-ish (200 employee) manufacturing operation, unionized, one building, one B/P, live on XE since June of last year. All JDE users interface via Citrix.
Currently, union employees (virtually all are non-JDE users) hand write individual time tickets, recording hours and quantities against work orders/operations. These tickets are then approved by supervisors (where required on an exception basis), and keypunched by clerks into a heavily modified version of P051121 Time Entry (which is in turn set up via standard processing option to feed manufacturing hours & quantities). Separate tickets are written and keypunched for things like vacation, holiday, maintenance, meetings, etc, using an assortment of pay types.
We’re envisioning a system of clock stations and software where the employees can swipe their ID badge and input their labor and quantities directly, validated against open WO Routings and PDBAs; non-WO labor (e.g. direct support labor, idle time, training, etc) would be collected in a similar manner, validated against Business Units & PDBAs; the collected transactions would be polled to a central database, and elapsed hours for each record would be calculated from the timestamps of these transactions; supervisors would then manage exceptions, corrections & approvals in near real-time, with eventual (custom?) batch feed to the F06116/F31122 tables. Nothing earth-shattering, just new territory for me…
Has anyone implemented an off-the-shelf product that integrated well with XE? Or did you choose to go the way of custom IV applications within JDE to manage the collected data, interfacing with validation-only collection stations? If the latter, were you able to segregate it in such a way to allow validated shop floor inputs to continue at times JDE was unavailable? Did you go with hardened collection points, or low-end PC workstations?
Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
Curtis
Does anyone have any experience/recommendations to share regarding Shop Floor Labor Collection systems, to integrate with XE? We’re a small-ish (200 employee) manufacturing operation, unionized, one building, one B/P, live on XE since June of last year. All JDE users interface via Citrix.
Currently, union employees (virtually all are non-JDE users) hand write individual time tickets, recording hours and quantities against work orders/operations. These tickets are then approved by supervisors (where required on an exception basis), and keypunched by clerks into a heavily modified version of P051121 Time Entry (which is in turn set up via standard processing option to feed manufacturing hours & quantities). Separate tickets are written and keypunched for things like vacation, holiday, maintenance, meetings, etc, using an assortment of pay types.
We’re envisioning a system of clock stations and software where the employees can swipe their ID badge and input their labor and quantities directly, validated against open WO Routings and PDBAs; non-WO labor (e.g. direct support labor, idle time, training, etc) would be collected in a similar manner, validated against Business Units & PDBAs; the collected transactions would be polled to a central database, and elapsed hours for each record would be calculated from the timestamps of these transactions; supervisors would then manage exceptions, corrections & approvals in near real-time, with eventual (custom?) batch feed to the F06116/F31122 tables. Nothing earth-shattering, just new territory for me…
Has anyone implemented an off-the-shelf product that integrated well with XE? Or did you choose to go the way of custom IV applications within JDE to manage the collected data, interfacing with validation-only collection stations? If the latter, were you able to segregate it in such a way to allow validated shop floor inputs to continue at times JDE was unavailable? Did you go with hardened collection points, or low-end PC workstations?
Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
Curtis