Exercise: Reporting Labor

Use the Dispatch report to organize your work for this exercise and keep the tab on your work space.

1 Use Labor Feedback by Work Order (16.20.1) to report the three operations for your other work order due this Friday at standard times. The standard times for each operation are:


Op. 10	0.25 hr setup	3.3 hrs run
Op. 20	3.3 hrs run
Op. 30	10.0 hrs run

2 Using Work Order Receipt Backflush (16.12), receive your work order into finished goods inventory and to backflush the components used to make the items. Be sure to close the order.

3 Using Labor Feedback by Employee (16.20.2), report the three operations of one of your orders due a week from Friday. Use employee 10-EMP02. Charge 1.0 hrs setup on operation 10 and 4.0 hours run time on operation 20.

4 Using Work Order Receipt Backflush (16.12), receive your work order into finished goods inventory and to backflush the components used to make the items.

5 Using Labor Feedback by Work Center (16.20.3), report the three operations on the other order due a week from Friday. Charge no setup time on operation 10 and reject 5 units at operation 20. Charge 9.5 hours at operation 30.

6 Using Work Order Receipt Backflush (16.12), receive your work order into finished goods inventory and to backflush the components used to make the items. Receive 95 units, scrap 5 units, and backflush all components.

7 Using Labor Feedback by Work Center (16.20.3), report the first two operations on the order due two weeks from Friday. Report operation 10 and 20 at standard. Leave the order open at operation 30.

Direct the output for all reports to page use the up arrow in the output field to select page. As you have only one work center, one employee and a limited set of work orders most reports can be run with the selection criteria left blank.

1 Using Input/Output Inquiry (16.20.13.11), view what your work center efforts looks like so far.

2 Using Input/Output Report (16.20.13.12), note the differences between the report and the inquiry.

3 Using Operations by Work Center (16.20.13.13), see which operations have been reported and which are still open.

4 Using Operations by Work Order (16.20.13.14), view the same information in a different format. Which would be more useful in your business?

5 Using Down Time Report (16.20.13.16) and Down Time by Reason Report (16.20.13.17), review the difference between the two.

6 Using Work Center Utilization Report (16.20.13.18), review your work centers utilization.

7 Using Efficiency by Work Center Report (16.20.13.19), review your work centers efficiency.

8 Using Work Order Cost Report (16.3.4), review the costs charged to your work orders.

Note: Specific details of product and work order costing and variances are covered in the Product Costing Course.