Operations Representing Assembly Steps
Bundle-Track lets you build a library of Operations, each of
which represents a specific labor action with a specific earnable
time or money value (see Production Standards)
and a conversion factor (see Operation Base
Rates) to allow conversions between them. You can also import
Operation definitions from other systems through a custom
Operations/Standards Import interface.
When you define your Products, you will specify
its assembly procedure (called a Routing)
as a sequence Operations. Later, when you put the Product into production,
for each Bundle you define, Bundle-Track will print a Bundle-Ticket
for each Operation in the Routing. By scanning
these tickets, you let Bundle-Track know which operations have been
completed each day and in what quantity. With this information,
Bundle-Track prepares work-in process data, calculates incentive
earnings, and performs performance analysis.
Standalone Operations (Network
Edition only)
Network Edition allows you to enter Operations
not represented by Tickets,
so you can process activities not related directly to bundle-processing,
like material reloading.
Multi-Operations for Multidimensional
Standards (Network Edition only)
Sometimes you need more than one measurement to determine the appropriate
pay for a given multifaceted task. Network Edition's Multi-Operations
streamline data entry by gathering multiple Operations
under one Multi-Operation Code. When you enter that code, a dialog
pops up to accept unit counts for each of the Operations involved.
Production Standards
An Operation's earnable value is called its Production
Standard. You can assign these values yourself, or import them from
other systems through a custom Operations/Standards
Import interface. When you change an Operation's Standards value,
the value is automatically updated in every Routing
that uses that Operation (except where the rate has been Anchored).
Sized Rates (Network
Edition only)
Network Edition allows you to specify different Production
Standard values to different Sizes under
a single Operation, so that you need not create
redundant Operations and Routings to accommodate
Size-specific rate engineering.
Multiple Unit Settings (Network
Edition only)
Each Unit Setting provides money-based and time-based units of measure
for Operation quantities. Desktop
Edition has only one Unit Setting: dollars per unit and minutes
per unit. Network Edition lets you define
multiple sets of Unit Settings with different unit labels like dollars
per dozen, minutes per hundred, etc.
Size Sets
Bundle-Track lets you define a library of Size Sets, each with a
different array of Sizes, to be assigned to Products.
Size Sets help to organize the different kinds of Sizes you deal
with: Numeric, All Purpose S-M-L, Juniors, Petites, Shoes, etc.
Colors
Bundle-Track lets you define a library of Colors to be assigned
to Products.
Products
Bundle-Track lets you define a library of Products. In each
Product definition, you may specify the appropriate Size
Set and Colors, assign SKU numbers to
individual Size/Color combinations, and define a product-specific
Routing.
Routings
For each Product, Bundle-Track lets you define
a Routing - a sequence of Operations performed
in the product's assembly. Routings may be sectioned
so that when portions of each bundle need to be assembled separately
and later reunited, the bundle-ticket layout groups the corresponding
tickets accordingly. To help you create new Routings quickly, Bundle-Track
provides a "Copy From" function that copies a Routing
from another Product so you may simply modify it as needed. You
may override the details of any Product's Routing for any specific
Lot.
Floating Rate Updates and Anchored
Rates
By default, the Production Standard rates
associated with a Routing's Operations
are automatically updated when the rate is changed upstream (Operation->Product
Routing->Lot Routing->Cut
Routing), but you have the option to lock down any rate in any Routing
to ignore upstream changes. Rate changes affect all data for the
open pay period, including Tickets
already scanned and not scanned yet.
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