Background: Labor Entry
Use the Labor Entry (LLE) program to enter hours worked on a manufacturing order, enter an unattended operation or indirect labor, and record sick, vacation, and holiday time. See Road Map for work flow.
To use the labor entry program, L Actual hours (labor entry) must be selected for the L=Labor entry or W=WIP movement option for your manufacturing branch (see System Options Maintenance: Manufacturing Options).
This topic has these subtopics:
Program Functions
You can enter direct labor for an operation sequence of a manufacturing order. This information can:
Update work in process of a manufacturing order.
Accumulate manufacturing order cost information.
Accumulate labor history.
Collect data for payroll.
Accumulate labor performance and efficiency data.
Pick components that are tied to an operation sequence.
You can also enter indirect hours worked as well as holiday, vacation, and sick hours.
Backflush Component Picking by Operation Sequence
You can tie component picking to pieces completed for an operation sequence.
System Picks When You Enter a Sequence
Select the Backflush components by operation seq? option for your manufacturing branch in System Options Maintenance - Manufacturing Options. Create the routing for the parent item. Then, in Bill of Material Maintenance (MPS), enter the operation sequence number at which you want to pick the component in the Operation Seq no field. Create a manufacturing order and do not obligate. When you enter pieces completed for a sequence, the system obligates and picks the components required.
You do not have to tie every component on a bill of material to an operation sequence if you select the Backflush comps not attached to oper? option for your manufacturing branch in System Options Maintenance - Manufacturing Options. The system backflushes components that have a blank Operation seq no field when you enter data in the WIP Movement program for the first operation sequence.
Select Specific Lot or Serial Controlled Components
For a controlled component, you may want to select the specific lot or serial numbers. Select the Select ctrl no for oper seq backflush? option for your manufacturing branch in System Options Maintenance - Manufacturing Options. The system still selects the quantity required for the pieces completed. However, you can select a different lot or different serial numbers.
Pick from Specific Warehouse/Bin Location
If you select the Use only inventory in backflush loc? option for your manufacturing branch in System Options Maintenance - Manufacturing Options, the system picks components from the warehouse and bin location specified for the component on the bill of material. If the bill of material warehouse/bin location fields are blank, the warehouse/bin specified for the work center id used. If a warehouse/bin is not specified in either the bill or work center, components are back flushed from any available location using the system-specified Method for auto-obligation (maintained in System Options Maintenance - Inventory Control Options).
Scrap Parents and Components
When you enter Pieces scrapped, you are scrapping a parent and all of its components. The system does not pick replacement components for a scrapped parent item. You can do that with the Material Issues and Adjustments (IMI) program, selecting the WRK option to issue the components to the manufacturing order.
You can click Comp scrap to scrap one or more components. When you scrap one or more of a component, realize that you will not have enough components to complete the build of the original quantity.
Reject Components
If you selected the Material review board active? option in System Options Maintenance - Purchasing Options, you can reject components during the manufacturing process. Click Comp scrap, select the component, and enter the quantity in the Reject quantity field. The program prompts you to select a reason for the rejection. You can enter or have the system assign an MRB tag number.
The rejected component can subsequently be selected in the Rejected Material Disposition (MRB) program when another employee can determine whether it can be stocked as is or should be scrapped.
Unattended Operations
Employee class X (machine) set up in the Employee Maintenance (LSA) program allows:
each machine to be assigned a unique employee number.
an operator to work on multiple unattended operations, or a single regular or batch operation.
an employee number can be assigned to each shift during which a machine operates.
entry of a non-standard routing sequence
The Employee reference number entry ensures proper tracking of the parties that completed work on the operation.
Reporting Multiple Operations
When an operator reports an unattended operation, the start time is logged. If a second unattended job starts, the first job computes the elapsed time and save it in an accumulation field in the system. Both jobs now show the same start time. If a third unattended job starts, both of the running jobs compute their elapsed time and the accumulation field has the total accumulated hours worked. The same is true if a job is reported completed—the jobs still running compute hours elapsed and add them to the accumulated hours. The start time resets to the current time. All the jobs use the initial system time as the reporting time so no minutes are lost. The actual elapsed time is divided by the number of operations running simultaneously before it is added to the accumulated time.
Example—Single operator running multiple jobs
Job |
Start |
End |
1 |
8:00 |
10:00 |
2 |
8:15 |
11:00 |
3 |
10:00 |
12:00 |
At 8:00, a work record starts for Job 1 with start time 8:00.
At 8:15, Job 2 starts and a work record is written with a start time of 8:15.
The Job 1 record updates with .25 hours of elapsed time and the start time is adjusted to 8:15.
Both jobs now show a start time of 8:15.At 10:00, Job 1 is completed and the quantities reported.
Job 1 calculates the current elapsed time between 8:15 and 10:00, as 1.75 hours, divided by 2 jobs running—Add .88 hours + .25 hours = 1.13 total time on the job.
Job 2 has the elapsed time between 8:15 and 10:00 as 1.75 hours, divided by 2 jobs running, for an elapsed time of .88 hours.
Job 2 now has a new start time of 10:00.At 10:00, Job 3 starts.
At 11:00, Job 2 is completed and the quantities reported.
Job 2 calculates the current elapsed between 10:00 and 11:00 as 1.00 hour divided by 2 jobs running—Add .50 hours to .88 hours already accumulated for a total of 1.38 hours.
Job 3 calculates the same .50 hours and adds it to the accumulation field.
Job 3 now has the start time set to 11:00.
At 12:00, Job 3 is completed and quantities reported.
Job 3 calculates the current elapsed time between 11:00 and 12:00 as 1:00 hour and it was the only job running.
Add 1.00 hour to .50 hours previously accumulated to arrive at 1.50 hours to charge to Job 3.
Summary of time charged to jobs
Job |
Hours charged |
1 |
1.13 |
2 |
1.38 |
3 |
1.50 |
Total hours |
4.01 |
The total equals the same hours the employee worked between 8:00 and 12:00.
Audit Trail
To activate an audit trail, select one of the files listed below in the Audit Trail Maintenance (XAT) program. The system records all transactions. You can then run the Audit Trails (ATR) program and select that file to print a report of these transactions.
LS7: Labor Entry