Overview: The process of scheduling jobs is based on the status of factory orders, due dates of orders and lead times of material and parts. Using the combination of this data, jobs can be scheduled based on automated start dates or nominated start dates to meet appropriate fulfilment requirements. Scheduling […]
2008-502 – Workcenter Scheduling Options
Excluding a Workcenter from the Scheduling Process: Where you need to exclude a Workcenter from the scheduling process, e.g. where it may be used for miscellaneous activity that occurs on a random basis, you have the capability of excluding it from the scheduling process by activating a Workcenter parameter as […]
2008-501 – Workcenter Hours Set-up for Job Scheduling
Overview: The OPTO Scheduling process is designed around automatically calculating the “Best Fit” Start and Finish dates for each process in each Job ticket in the production system. Issue dates for each job ticket are created based on the part critical time and reliance on its parent parts. Using the […]
2008-103 – Transfer Job Process Time
Overview: For this process to be successful the Jobs must be active and the job times cannot overlap with the same employee on the same Workcenter. NOTE: The daily employee clock record is not changed. So the payroll entry will refer to the “from” job only. This utility is a […]
2007-505– Understanding the Job Cost Summary
Overview: The job costing screen or report is use to evaluate the performance of the job against estimates. The information displayed allows the user to determine very quickly whether the estimated time, material and workcenter costs are accurate and make adjustments accordingly. To demonstrate the information contained in the JOB […]
2007-500 – Point of Sale (POS)
Overview: The Point-of-Sale function has been designed for companies that do straight over the counter sales. The Point of Sales function can also be set for Barcode scanning of Parts or Materials as an option. The settings are located on the INVOICING tab of the OPTO Ribbon, click on the […]
2006-121 – Import Sales Order into New Purchase Order Function
Open New Purchase Order and enter the Supplier Code and press <Tab>. The USER will notice a tick box with ‘Sub WC’ next to it in the top right-hand corner. Click on the box to tick to so the words change to ‘Clt Order’ Click in the box below and […]
2006-120 – Copy Purchase Order Function
Open a New Purchase Order and enter the Supplier Code and press <Tab>. The USER will notice a tick box with ‘Sub WC’ next to it in the top right-hand corner. Click on the box three times to so it is a solid colour and the label changes to ‘Pur […]
2006-109 – Credit Purchases Procedure
Overview This document describes how to credit purchased/received items from a supplier in OPTO and process the credit for transfer to your accounting system. Please Note; There MUST be a delivered/received quantity for an item/s before you can create a credit Employee Security Setting An employee must have permission to […]
2005-207 -Linking employee codes from Sigmanest to Opto
Overview: To enable linking of employee information from sigmanest to Opto. Quotes Tab: From the OPTO ribbon select the Quotes tab and then click on the ‘Specials’ option list and then click ‘Import Employee (Simtrans)’ to display the ‘Import/User-Employee’ window. And then click ‘Select Users’ to display the employee in […]
