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Introduction
Optifacts can now automatically calculate and store an estimated production delivery date for all active jobs in the system. The calculation will be based on any tray track stages the job qualifies for that have not been completed yet. If there are four stations that a job must pass through to complete, we will add up the time assigned to each step that has not yet been completed. Then, based on the calendar days and working hours entered in the Estimated Delivery Date calendar, Optifacts will determine which day the job will be completed. If a breakage occurs for the job, Optifacts will assume all steps need to be reprocessed. The production delivery date will be stored in the job_data table as “PRODUCTION EDD”. If we recalculate the production delivery date and it is different from the current stored “PRODUCTION EDD”, we will move the previous “PRODUCTION EDD” record to “OLD PRODUCTION EDD” and store the newly recalculated date as “PRODUCTION EDD”. The only trays that will not be calculated are mailed-out jobs, cancelled jobs, credits, bulk stock orders, Tray-Up orders with no job information yet, and jobs that are actively or in queue to getting processed by the ofdemon.
Procedure
The following information will need to be added to Optifacts in order to calculate and store an estimated production delivery date.
Job Status Set-up
From the Optifacts main menu:
Type 11 – Retail Transfer and press enter.
Type 7 - Editor: Job Status Set-up and press enter.
The TNT E-mail Options screen displays.
The record above tells the jstatus program to calculate every 4 hours (240 minutes) the production delivery date for all active jobs in the system. It is recommended that the Minutes Between Transfers is not less than 60 minutes as we are recalculating all jobs every time.
Track Stages Set-Up
From the Optifacts main menu:
Type 7 – Tray Track and press enter.
Type 12 - Tray Track Configuration and press enter.
Type 11 - Track Stages Editor and press enter.
Ensure that all stages/steps that you wish to be included in the the time calculation have a time assigned here. The units are in hours. (Refer to the Track Stop Stages document for full instructions)
Optifacts will use the Stage time unless a Step time is defined. In the below example, Optifacts will use 3 hours when adding this time to its calculations.
If more than one record exists for the same stage and step (ie, more than one tray track station qualifies to complete that stage/step), Optifacts will use the largest time value in its calculation.
In the following example, Stage 2/Step 1 has two possible stations: 2011 which takes 6 hours and 2013 which takes 2 hours. In this case, Optifacts will use 6 hours in its calculations.
Job Data Definitions (Optional)
If you would like an operator to be able to view the estimated production delivery date in Quick Lookup, setup the next 2 records.
From the Optifacts main menu:
Type 3 – Editor Utilities and press enter.
Type 6 – Configuration Editor and press enter.
Type 7 – Edit Job Data Definitions and press enter.
The Prompt Configuration for Miscellaneous Job Related Data window displays.
- Type A to add a new record.
- Enter all the applicable data as shown below pressing enter past each field.
Production EDD
Old Production EDD
