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Monitor production status and material and equipment capacity

After work orders, both planned and released, have been successfully loaded, you will want to check the load and ensure that load on the work centers is even and that there are not any overages.

The Intuitive ERP shop status report allows you to view the status of all work centers at any time. Each work center is marked with either a green light to indicate that the work center is underloaded, a yellow light to indicate that the load is correctly loaded (between the reserved capacity for this work center and 100% loaded), or a red light to indicate a load that exceeds 100% of the work center's capacity. Time buckets may be viewed by day, week, or month to provide a "big picture" view at a glance.

Double-clicking on any of the indicator lights opens the work center scheduling tool for that work center, where you can easily reschedule loads by clicking and dragging operations to the new day, or from one work center to another. Planned orders and release orders are displayed in different colors to provide maximum visibility.

This unique drag-and-drop scheduling provides you with the ability to reschedule your shop floor in real-time to balance work loads. Not only do you have tremendous visibility into the status of your shop floor load, but you also have the capability to dynamically reconfigure this load through real-time drag-and-drop technology.

When your work orders are loaded properly and your work center loads are balanced, you will need to keep your shop floor employees updated with which orders to work on and when. Travelers list all steps through which an order must pass before it is completed and includes the standard setup and run times at each operation as well as spaces for the worker to enter the quantity completed, scrapped, or rejected.

A live dispatch window provides workers at each work center with the data they need to identify which work orders are scheduled to pass through the work center. When a foreman enters data on a work order, the dispatch list window is instantly updated. Video clips associated with a routing may be viewed from this window, and the dispatch list can also be printed.

Intuitive ERP's work in process (WIP) value report provides a complete summary of all of the costs that are currently in work in process. This report, used in conjunction with the stock value report, gives you a complete inventory valuation, including both stores and work in process.