Before You Run the Workbenches
The following topics discuss QAD EE settings you should set before you run the Workbenches:
Setting Repetitive Control Fields
Once you load data, you must set two fields in Repetitive Control (18.22.24) before you begin training lessons in the QMI environment:
• End Effective Default Method: blank
• Zero Balance Work in Process: No
Enabling the Workbenches
You must set a field within QAD EE Site Maintenance (1.1.13) so that your site is enabled to run the workbenches.
Use Plan/Sched Workbenches
Set this field to enable the Planning and Scheduling Workbenches for this site.
No: You cannot run the MSW or PSW workbenches for this site. Use Repetitive Menu (18) programs as usual.
Yes: Setting this field to Yes lets you use the MSW or PSW for this site. When a site is enabled to run the MSW and PSW workbenches, Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) runs as part of MRP for orders that have a P(lanned) status. When CRP runs as part of MRP, the system:
• Explodes planned orders as they are created.
• Lets you access the orders via the work center schedule resource in MSW.
So, once a site is enabled to run MSW or PSW, and you run MRP for the site to create planned orders; then within MSW, you can retrieve the orders for the item/site.
Setting this field to Yes also disables the following programs:
• Schedule Maintenance (18.2.1 and 18.22.2.1)
• Schedule Explosion (18.2.4)
• Cumulative Completed Maintenance (18.6)
• Line Schedule Workbench (18.22.1.10)
• Schedule Explosion (18.22.2.4)
• Cumulative Completed Maintenance (18.22.2.6)
• Planned Repetitive Schedule Approval (23.8)