We do not know how to communicate progress events.  
 
At the end of the day we want to know how many sequences have been completed on how many parts.
We want to think about pieces of work as flowing through our plant.
 
Sometimes we get huge variances and the system does not tell the supervisors until its too late.
 
We have orders for a 100 parts with 4 work center sequences that take between two hours and twenty minutes each.
 
Maybe we should learn to enter labor as .022 parts complete.   Maybe we need a rebuild labor history program for work in process.  
 
Our sales person has to go off line to find out where jobs are.
 
Do you have any suggestions?

When the supervisors do batch labor entry, the system reports that we have completed 4 times too many or 400 pieces.  We actualy only had 100 pieces flow through 4 different stations, 400 sequences 100 parts.  
 
There must be some system setting we have wrong.  
Please tell me some companies have this working correctly.