Understanding Hours and Quantities
As you produce the items on a work request, you need to record the hours spent on production and the number of items (or co-products and by-products, for process manufacturing) that are completed in that time. This enables you to monitor progress and actual costs and compare them to the standard hours and quantities that you estimated for the job.
If the estimates are reasonably accurate, you can use the Super Backflush program (P31123) to have the system automatically enter the standard values at the pay point operations in the routing instructions. Otherwise, you can have all employees individually enter their time and the quantities that they completed.
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management system interfaces with the time entry feature of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Time Accounting system so that employee hours and quantities produced have to be entered only once. The single entry saves time, reduces the risk of data entry error, and ensures that data throughout the enterprise is consistent.
The system can record hours and quantities in the work order record and in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Time and Labor system. Hours and quantities can be applied to a specific work order so that you can maintain accurate manufacturing accounting and costing data. To accommodate both piecework and hourly-rate employees, you can record hours and quantities either per work order or per employee.
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management system manages hour and quantity information in the same manner whether you enter it in the Hours and Quantities program (P311221) or in the Speed Time Entry program (P051121) in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Time and Labor system. If you use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Time and Labor system in conjunction with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management system, you should use the Speed Time Entry program to enter hours and quantities information.
After you enter hours and quantities on either time entry form, you can review and revise them before you post them to the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing system for further tracking and cost accounting. You can review the hours and quantities either online or by printing a report.
The system stores header information from the Work With Work Order Time Entry form (W311221B) in the Work Order Master File table (F4801). Detail information is stored in the Work Order Time Transactions table (F31122).
If you use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Quality Management system, as you record actual hours and quantities for a work order, you can access the Enter Test Results program (P3711) for completed items that require testing.