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Automatic assignment of indirect job?

  • 20 January 2023
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In older versions of IFS, using Shop Floor Employee reporting, there was a function to automatically assign an indirect job to an employee when clocked in for time and attendance. This indirect job was also started automatically when a shop order operation was stopped.

Is there a way to solve this in current setup with indirect jobs and Shop Floor Workbench? Our scenario is that we have some warehouse workers where main task is warehouse work (defined as indirect job) but in some cases they also report on shop orders.  

We want the indirect job to be automatically assigned and only report deviations from this, e.g. reporting of shop order (start and stop) from SFWB.

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Best answer by Björn Hultgren 9 February 2023, 10:28

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Björn Hultgren
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The functionality to automatically start indirect job for an employee (available up to IFS Applications 7.5) was actually a hassle for many companies. It often created large amount of small start-stop clockings for indirect jobs that we hard to administrate if another clocking had to be modified etc.

Instead you can define an Indirect Job for Diff for a shop floor employee. Then when you authorize the time card (attendance + manufacturing time) for the employee, an indirect time result will be created for any negative diff. So if you reported on a shop order 7.5h and was present 8h, system will generate an indirect time result of the remaining 0.5h.

Note that you must also use a Parameter List to control how much negative diff that should be allowed in order to authorize.   

 

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Hi,

We do not use authorization for shop floor clocking so this solution will not work for us. Maybe we can use Shop floor employee setting, resume option “Automatic resume” to at least auto start indirect operation from previous day? 

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If an employee is setup with “Automatic Resume” and he/she is having an ongoing indirect clocking when clocking out for the day, the next day when he/she is clocked back in a new clocking should be automatically started for the same indirect job. 

So yes this functionality can be used even if you are not using the authorization. 

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