Departments


Departments are used to group locations (tablets) into production lines to allow you to define groups of workers. Departments can be used as filters in reports and real-time screens. Also used to report time and SAMs earned.

Functionality


Manage > Locations > Departments






Departments may have milestones to inform stages during the process, meaning Shopfloor can be configured to create a milestone file which can be used, when configured for your system, to update an ERP system as to the status of production. They may also have a specific feature used for the planning module (see planning module section for more information)



It's possible to associate the following information about a department.


  • Id - Department ID reference
  • Name - Department Name
  • Milestone - Milestone associated to department, used for milestone tracking and Planning platform
  • Department Traits - Traits are used only for the planning platform
  • Daily Goal - an option to set daily unit goals to be used by the daily target screen
  • Takt Time - Setup the pace of the day calculated by the demand. Used to define production demand of a department, necessary for line balancing
  • Color - Only used in the planning platform
  • Hide in Plan - Only used in the planning platform
  • Edit & Delete - Used to unlock a department for edits and to delete a department


It is possible to create hierarchies of departments up to 4 departments deep by dragging a department over another

This will place the moved department as a sub department under the desired department.





Department Goals


The department goals menu allows you to define daily goals by date range for each module which can be used to calculate payment for users via the use of formulas.  Bonus pay can also be included to provide a bonus for changing styles by using the Product Category and Bonus Pay options.  Once defined, you will be able to calculate addtional incentive payment outside of the normal piecerate incentive using any of the values populated here. 



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