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Message started by muller2l on 12/14/06 at 15:38:24

Title: Reporting labor when multi-tasking
Post by muller2l on 12/14/06 at 15:38:24

We are trying to determine which is the best way to report labor hours if an employee works two work orders at the same time. We have some work centers that run un-attended except for checking on the quality. So an employee will run one job full time and casually check the other job.
So both jobs are running 8 hours each but the labor hours are only 8 hours total.
We would like to get accurate job costing but we do not want to overstate the labor.

Title: Re: Reporting labor when multi-tasking
Post by Dale on 12/18/06 at 08:19:08

We have the same issue. We've begun using DC-C, with the employees keeping track of their own time. When we allow them to have multiple work orders open, the system posts all the elapsed time to all the jobs, rather than dividing it equally amongst them.

Title: Re: Reporting labor when multi-tasking
Post by Dale on 01/09/07 at 07:05:22

Anyone have any ideas on this one?

Lynn - what say ye?

Title: Re: Reporting labor when multi-tasking
Post by cathyh on 01/09/07 at 07:38:35

There is a setting in Work Order defaults that asks if you want to divide labor by number of jobs-- I think that setting affects this, but I am not sure.

Title: Re: Reporting labor when multi-tasking
Post by Lynn_Pantic on 01/09/07 at 19:34:11

SD-B (WO Defaults) has the setting for Divide Labor by Number of Jobs and we added an SD-Q setting for Divide Overhead by Number of Jobs because it seemed silly to split the labor but not the overhead. However, these options divide the total equally by the number of jobs worked.

It gets trickier when you want to split the labor disproportionally which is what I think the originator of this thread wants. His operator may be running 2 jobs but it is 80/20, not 50/50.

There is an option in SD-Q that says "Allow dec entry of # jobs worked?". If you turn that on, you can play with the numbers to force the 80/20 split. If that is really what you want to do, read the Help and then try some different options to see what results you get.