Configure Shop Floor Reporting Settings

Explanation

This activity is used to configure settings related to shop floor reporting.

On the Site/Manufacturing page, General tab:

In Calendar Consideration field, you choose how you want the system to calculate reported time intervals that falls outside the calendar. If you only want to include time intervals for which valid attendance interval exists, enable the Base Labor Result on Attendance option.
In Reporting Mode field you choose whether the reported labor time should be registered on employees or anonymously.
If you want the system to automatically trigger the Identification dialog, after the shop floor workbench has been left some time idle, enable the Auto Trigger Identification Dialog option and enter the number of seconds when the dialog should be triggered in Time Idle field.
If you enable the Authorization Required option, it indicates that manufacturing transactions can be authorized. If the site requires authorization, then in order to transfer the transactions to finance the transactions should be authorized.
If you want the quantity to be reported in the Approve Operation assistant to be suggested by default, enable the Default Remaining Quantity to Report option.
If you want the time to be reported in the Approve Operation assistant to be suggested by default, enable the Default Remaining Time to Report option.
If you want by-products to be received in conjunction with approving the operation, select the Default Receive Byproducts option.

On the Work Center page:

In the Concurrent Operations drop-down, select whether to allow multiple operations to be run simultaneously on a work center resource or not. If allowed, also specify the behavior of group started operations.
If you want the system to automatically stop the machine clocking when the last labor clocking on the operation is automatically stopped, enable the Auto Stop Machine Clocking option.
If you want the system to automatically stop the labor clocking when the machine clocking on the operation is automatically stopped, enable the Auto Stop Labor Clocking option.
If you want to receive the finished goods of the shop order into inventory when approving the last operation, enable the Receive into Inventory on Last Operation option.
If you want that the resource share for machine clockings is automatically divided between shop order operations performed concurrently by a resource on this work center, select Yes in the Calculate Actual Resource Share drop-down.

On the Shop Floor Reporting User Settings per Site page:

Create a new line for the user ID and the site.
Select the method used to filter operations in shop floor workbench page in the Filter By drop-down. Note that this value only will take affect for sites with reporting mode set to anonymous, as the setting for the shop floor employee and shop floor team will override this value. If Predefined Filter is selected, you can specify a value in the Filter field
Select the desired default settings applicable for the Approve Operation assistant (backflush, auto report operations etc).

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Based on the setting configuration, system will depend differently when reporting shop order operations, indirect jobs and machine downtime.