roly
Forum Replies Created
-
Some type of functionality to allow users to have multiple windows of quantum open without consuming multiple licences. our engineering team has dual screens and at times must utilize 2 quantum licenses that during certain functions which should not be the case.
Option to link document images across multiple modules / tables . for example Images uploaded to a receiver should be visible to for the PO linked to the receiver. Or images uploaded to a stock line visible in the PO from which it was received., etc.
Audit trail for pruchase request. occasionaly an approved purchase request will be modifiied and resubmitted for approval but there is no audit trail to show what was changed.
There is an option to delete the link of sub-wo from the WO Bom but there is no option to link a sub-wo to a bom item.
-
Miami Florida
Appreciate it.
-
Joe if you remove the flag from the Work Order option on the menu Ian highlighted, once you select Ok in the adding WO screen you will be prompted to input the WO# manually.
-
I agree, it would be great if it went even further and had the option to link the documents from a PO to the stock lines associated with it
-
Jason Cordoba wrote:
I am sure you already explored company warnings, based on module. This does allow a popup warning per module but you would have to do it for all companies. Can do this in mass with a SQL script.
But out of curiosity, can you give an example of a warning on a module that you would like to see? I’ve not seen a situation where this isn’t company specific.So we have a few scenarios that this would be useful for especially in the WO module. Some of our customers will only accept material with back to birth records so a warning for that would be great. We also deal with a lot of concession repairs from the OEM which require our engineering team to give the final approval so we would like to place a warning stating “Contact Engineering Prior to Finalizing Component” which we basically manage now with WO header notes. Also for repair orders we would like the same thing especially when the part requires a special review once its received we would like to have a pop letting the user know to contact quality upon receiving.
-
Thanks for the info. Will give this a try on our next import.
-
I have been able to make the import function work on 12.3.10.0 but it is a Royal PIA! follow my steps below and it should work for you.
First step is to close everything in excel except for what you are trying to import, leave that open.
Go to the import option in quantum and select the same file you have open in excel.
It will now work and allow you to map fields but you need to jump between your excel window and quantum, this is a bit easier if you have dual monitors. -
its not a straight forward process but it can be done.
Go to the main work order then Global> Main Component> Reserve. from the reservations screen select delete to remove the SL completely, then reselect the same SL and you will be prompted to choose a qty to reserve. choose however many you would like to keep on the main work order. if you had 6 and you chose 3 you should have 3 reserved to the main wo and 3 available.
from the main WO go Global> Edit Header and change the Qty needed to the Qty you reserved to stay on the main wo.
Now from one of the task add a new BOM item for the part number and choose the Activity as Work Order and choose the qty needed. select ok and do not process the BOM item.
From the Main WO screen Select the item you just added and click on the BOM Misc> Stock Reservations, now reserve how ever many you want to process on this separate Sub-WO.
once the items are reserved select the BOM item again and select BOM Misc> Work Order and you will be prompted with a screen asking you to confirm the Stock line you are creating a WO. Select Done. after that you should have a new Sub-WO created with the same SL’s.
there maybe an easier method but this is the only way we have been able to do it. this is why we no longer open WO’s with multiple QTY if it has any likelihood of deviation from the original work scope. We usually just open up was Main WO with a BOM item for each unit and just open individual sub-wo’s for each
-
Warren Coykendall wrote:
Why not fix the Oracle trigger so it logs the fields you want to keep track of in the audit log?
Granted if you are not comfortable doing database admin, CC I’m sure could do it for you or Pietro could no doubt. It really isn’t that hard, you have to track your changes so when CC upgrades you you can re introduce your changes.
Yea that option is a bit out of my comfort zone but, I will look into this!
-
Gabrielle Greenwade wrote:
Also, is there a way to create an internal work order and link the main component to an open purchase order? We purchase the main component and then assemble in shop. Similar to how linking and PO’s are handled in the BOM where the receiver will have a pick ticket print out.
Thank you!
So you want to open the Internal work order prior to receiving the Main Component from a PO?
-
Warren Coykendall wrote:
I would be tempted if the WO series is not special to use a UDF in the header of the “monthly” wo and schedule a job to auto close it and create a new one?
We have the same problem as Nate, so something like this would be great.
-
We do this, but I believe the only way it works is if your using purchase request, and only allow PO’s to be created through a purchase request.
-
Dixie Callahan wrote:
Hi, I am wondering if you came up with a solution for managing the vendor owned inventory in your system. In particular, I am looking for a way to show the inventory in Quantum at no cost but to be able to get the cost into inventory and payables when consumed in our processes. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dixie Callahan, Moog Inc.
Hi Dixie, What we ended up doing is creating a PO with every line item, its cost, and Qty . In the Part master for these parts we designated a default Location And Warehouse.
Whenever we need one of these parts our team just receives the qty needed from the PO which is received directly into the Location we assigned in the parts master and its picked when the pick ticket is sent to the stock room. Also this creates a receiver which once posted creates a payable.
So in theory in location 1A1 we have qty 50 but quantum shows 0 because the 50 are still on the PO and will only show in inventory as they are received.
This will not work for every scenario, but it was the method we felt most comfortable with for this inventory.
-
Did this enhancement ever go live?
-
Has anyone linked labor collection to and outside payroll company, ADP, Paylocity etc.?
Our biggest issue is a lot of employees forget to clock out of there last job and then go home for the day. id like some type of block where they cant clock out if they are still logging labor. this would require some type of communication between quantum and the payroll software but not sure if its been done before.
-
Depending on your shop control setup you should be able to change the WO status to closed regardless if its out on a repair.
even though the SL is still “linked” to the WO when you receive the RO back the SL should go into inventory since the WO Closed status should not allow any activity. again this all depends on the way you have shop control setup as there are a few options that could stop you from doing this.
the other option would be to delete the line item from the repair, re-reserve it to the WO, Release and close the WO, then add the SL back to repair order.
-
Jason Cordoba wrote:
If you have the LOT module, Manage all the stock in the LOT
Most importantly use a consignment code, edit the consignment code and FLAG “True Consignmentâ€
If you don’t have the LOT module, you can still use the Manage Consignment feature, inventory control drop down -> Consignment view -> enter consignment code.
this will show you how the consignment stock is transacting in various grids.
Thanks for the response Jason. We don’t have lot manager because we rarely deal with consignments. The only consignments we have had are basically for our own consumption of material during the overhaul process.
As far as using the consignment capability that’s already built into Inventory Control I don’t really find much information for this online or within quantum’s help file. What I’m trying to determine is how the inventory is managed on the accounting side, does the cost of these parts show up as inventory cost prior to being consumed? Also what method is used to advise the vendor of the material that has been consumed so that we can be billed accordingly?
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
-
Hi Aaqib,
I was not sure of how many parts you were trying to update but I’m sure quantum has a stored procedure for this as it is already a function in the system as i described earlier. It probably involves disabling triggers which is not usually recommended. You may want to reach out to them as they might have a solution.
Regards,
Aaqib Naqati wrote:
Rolando,
Thanks for your response , but that is a lot of manual work in case we want to clean lot of junk from the parts_master.
Like in my case i have parts in 100’s which need to be cleaned. Doing it manually would take lot of time and with chances of repeating the same mistakes.
Thanks!
-
If you open up the Inventory Control window for that Part Number you can select Global> Change Part Number . This will allow you to change the part number to whatever you like as long as it does not already exist.
-
I can imagine, and i understand that no system is perfect. but there should be some accountability on their end to advise their users of a potentially critical bug so they can decide how they want to proceed.
I know the bug fixes are posted for the new versions but if you are not aware of the bug it does not really help much.
-
Any info on a possible release for this enhancement? i haven’t seen any information regarding this in any of the new version release notes so not sure if its been implemented yet.
-
Nate do you have anything in the system that identifies these parts as complying with these more stringent Requirement?
Something that may work is creating custom condition codes with condition levels.
So for instance if we have a customer that does not accept New Surplus material and only wants New stock then in their BOM we will call out the condition required as NE therefore not allowing the system to reserve anything with a condition level any less than that of NE. If you where to select NS for new surplus on a regular customer then it will allow the system to reserve anything that is the same as the NS condition lever or better.
There maybe more practical ways to do this that i am unaware of so it would be good to hear from some of the other members.
-
There is no built in functionality that we know of to import into the template.
The workaround we have done in the past is to import the info for the BOM/Work Plan into a work order and once all the information is in place and correct just go Global>Template> Work Plan> Create Template and then change the Template name and Part Numbers.
-
John Schneider wrote:
Had a demo on this today in development.
Test went well and we will spend some time on this feature this week.
Nice! Any info on what version this could possibly be released in?
-
Jason Cordoba wrote:
What other software product allows this sort of navigation on two or three separate monitors?
If CC had an example, it might help with the suggestion but I’ve never seen any software product separate itself between multiple monitors and allow separate navigation.
An example would be like using Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Office which will allow you to open and work on multiple files at once without having multiple instances of the program running its all funneled through that one process.
Maybe they don’t have to change the UI, I’m not sure but maybe its possible that it only counts the connection from one PC as 1 User License instead of each instance of quantum running on the PC as a Licence.
We have 7 Engineers in our Engineering department and at times they are using 14 licences because of this issue. Quantum has great drill down functionality but if you cannot transfer the information you are viewing to a previous window or screen it becomes a pain for certain functions.
-
I have come to the conclusion that they do not want to address this issue and would rather have us just open two quantum programs on the same PC which uses up another license. i was told to submit this as a product improvement suggestion and if it was picked up by development they would contact me.
I Never heard back.
-
I don’t understand why this is not a standard feature like it is in the PO Module
-
Did this ever get any traction? this would be a great addition.
-
If you go to global> Quick Update> Part Number. this works for us and also updates the stock line regardless if the WO is open or Closed.
-
Hi Mike,
The way we are currently handling this is as follows.
We purchase all shelf life items as regular stock items and fill out expiration dates as required on the receiving window .
Every month we run a stock search with the Field “Expiration Date” filled out with the last day of that month and this will bring up anything with an expiration date set to that date or before.
we export this information and we create a Stock Issue that we name something like “October Shelf Life Purge” and add all of the items that have expired and reserve those stock lines and issue them.
this has been working for us without any issues and has been rather easy to keep up.
-
Was this enhancement ever implemented?
-
Tim thanks for this, I will test it and respond here with my results.
Regards,
-
Our purchasing department is looking for a report similar to the “Open Purchase Order Report” but with some more detail. Specifically identifying if any items on a PO are linked to a WO.
-
I have run into this same issue as well and have contacted CC and they say that there is no way of adjusting the sequence. This would be a great improvement if the fixed this issue.
-
Ian, thanks for the info.
I’ve been trying a few thing out but can’t seem to get it right. I first set up all the work types and toll gates. Next, I went to the Sub-Work Order and in the header, i chose Work Type: Overhaul. Went to each task and added the corresponding toll gates for each. so now to test I closed out the first 3 Task.
When I go to toll gate analysis I can see all of the Sub-Work orders and can look for the one I modified but the three toll gates that should be completed still remain blank.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for the Help.
-
Thanks, Sally, we want to try something similar and I have been testing it out in our test environment and was wondering what triggers the different toll gates as showing completed if that’s even how it should work.
-
Keith thanks for the clarification I now understand your method, but this will not work for us as we use consignment codes for any consigned inventory we may have. thanks
-
Keith I’m not sure I understand what you are getting at. How is the consignment window related to the Work Order #?
Thanks,
-
Mike, i was trying to do this same thing and was never able to figure it out, what we do now is when the person is releasing the WO in the final receiving screen they type the WO number in the remarks and we modified our label to show the remarks at the bottom.
if anyone else was able to figure this out it would be great.
Hope this helps,
-
Nadim Ghazzaoui wrote:
Default Repair will work only if you are using Master Routers. It will resolve the issue.
Not sure if this will work for mike, but this will not help my situation since in a landing gear there are usually at leaset 100 parts that take indivdual sub-workorders with different work scope.
I’m thinking of contacting CC about adding the option of applying the template during the teardown function if anyone else is also interested in this.
-
This was the response I received from Frank Scales when I asked about Quantum Mechanic.
Hi, Roly –
The Quantum Mechanic in the release notes is an alternative interface to the barcode system that was designed a few years ago but never built. It is intended to integrate the Barcode system with our optional Time & Attendance module in a single view. There currently are no plans to build it.
The release notes contained it in error and have been updated – apologies for the confusion.
Kind regards –
-
This was the response I received from Frank Scales when I asked about Quantum Mechanic.
Hi, Roly –
The Quantum Mechanic in the release notes is an alternative interface to the barcode system that was designed a few years ago but never built. It is intended to integrate the Barcode system with our optional Time & Attendance module in a single view. There currently are no plans to build it.
The release notes contained it in error and have been updated – apologies for the confusion.
Kind regards –
-
Ok i just asked component control about this and was told they do not have a quantummechanic.exe, so i just responded pointing out the tracker mentioned in the 10.8 release notes but have not heard back yet.
Security, Setup Features, General and Miscellaneous: New “QuantumMechanic.exe†external Windows application designed for streamlined recording of time and attendance and labor. Works via barcode scanning. Simple user interface with limited selections to reduce the likelihood of erroneous entries. [Enhancement] [Tracker: T6403] (10.8.1)
-
is anyone using this program yet? would really like to know how it compares to genericbc.
-
Thanks for the input! Mike If I follow correctly, this will not allow you to modify or “unpost” the invoice, this will just zero out the account and then you will have to post a new invoice later in the future when it is due to be posted.
-
Mike I would love to be able to do this as well, but as far as i know, there is no way to do this as of yet. The way we handle it is through the teardown feature as well and once the sub-work orders have been created we then have to go to each individual one and apply the template.
-
also interested in this report.
Thanks
-
Henrik that is pretty much exactly what i was looking for and works great! thanks
Sally, that also looks very interesting. I’ll try calling CC to get some more info.
Thanks to everyone for the input!
-
Hi Megan,
Thanks for the response. But what i was asking is if there is any one place where you can see all of one users audit trail activity. for example i would like to see john doe’s activity and any changes he has made for today. Is there a report that would show this or something in the system that you could see audit trail information by user?
Thanks,
-
Yes, the linking function would work in this scenario as well.