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Message started by Laura on 04/16/04 at 08:51:19

Title: data collection-no paper-no bar codes???
Post by Laura on 04/16/04 at 08:51:19

Has anybody ever heard of this?

beginning of shift the worker goes to terminal, enters his number, see his schedule, does the job, comes back to the terminal and then enter his number again.....NO PAPER....NO BAR CODES.....NOTHING.

this is how an employee describes the data collection at his former job.

Anybody running DBA familiar with a system like this?
Is this even possible?

I bet our guys would forget what they were supposed to do before they got back to their machine. But he said their system worked great.

Thanks,
Laura

Title: Re: data collection-no paper-no bar codes???
Post by aricon on 04/16/04 at 09:07:42

Laura,

Absolutely! That is what Epicor Vista and Vantage have for the DC module. It is called a Work Queue. There are a few thousand sites around the world using this quite succesfully.

Title: Re: data collection-no paper-no bar codes???
Post by Laura on 04/16/04 at 09:26:56

so....can I make DBA do this?

Title: Re: data collection-no paper-no bar codes???
Post by Lynn Pantic on 04/16/04 at 09:28:04

What I see as the potential difficulty for this approach for the typical DBA user (at least in my experience) is having a schedule sufficiently accurate and detailed that you can define a daily work assignment by employee in advance to there can in fact BE a schedule! :o

Could be done within the DBA data structure using the Employee as the "Child" work center resource in the Finite Scheduling but are you REALLY that organized? Probably need to assign a couple of people full time just to maintain the schedule. Is it worth it?

Title: Re: data collection-no paper-no bar codes???
Post by aricon on 04/16/04 at 09:43:26

I fully agree with Lynn on this one as relates to probably 80+% of the DBA sites/users.

There are some that can certainly take advantage of a system like this, but it DOES require an organization to have a good handle on people, process, resources (machines and other related) and someone at least partially devoted to controlling/maintaining this.