How to Set up Operations

Summary

Operations in The Shed App refers to piece rate tracking and payment for shop employees. In this article, we will explain how operations can be set up for your company.

Intro to Operations

Add Operations

• Navigate to System > Operations and click Add Operation

  • You will be prompted to add a name and description

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  • Later we will assign an amount to each operation for each building model or option

Add Operations to Production Statuses

• Navigate to System > Production Statuses

  • You can click edit for any custom production statuses that you have already added or you can add new custom production statuses now to match your process.

• In the Default Operations to Complete field select any operations that you want to be marked as completed when this production status is completed

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Add an Operations Surcharge to a Plant (Optional)

• Navigate to System > Lists > Plants > Edit Plant

  • If you have multiple plants and pay different pieces rates for each plant you can set this up by adding an operation surcharge to a plant

• Select an Operations Surcharge Basis

  • Fixed

    • set a dollar amount to increase or decrease all operation costs completed at this plant

  • Percent

    • set a percentage to increase or decrease all operation costs completed at this plant

Add Operations to Building Models and Options

Building Models

• Navigate to System > Catalogs > Building Model

• Select any Building Model to edit

• In the Operations section - Select all operations that apply to the Building Model

• Specify the amount of each operation for the Building Model

• Repeat for all Building Models

Options

• Navigate to System > Catalogs > Option

• Select any option to edit

• In the Operations section - Select all operations that apply to the option

• Specify the amount of each operation for the option

• Repeat for all required options