Bill of Materials > Setup > Employee Maintenance

Employee Maintenance

You use this program to capture and maintain details of Bill of Material employees required within the system.

Employee Details

Field Description
Employee Indicates the code of the employee you are currently maintaining.
Name Indicate the name of the employee. This assists you in verifying that the correct employee has been entered.
Standard time per month

Indicate how much time is available for the employee per month. This is used in the employee efficiency calculation.

The description of the time unit of measure (to which your entry relates) is extracted from the entry made at the Default description of time units setup option (Bill of Materials Setup).
Work center Indicates the work center to which the employee is assigned.
Shift id

Indicates the employee's shift id that is used within the Advanced Planning & Scheduling system.
Payroll employee number Enter the employee's payroll code. This enables you to uniquely identify the employee.

Employee Rates

You use this pane to assign rates against employees. This enables you to post labor to a job (Labor Posting) at the actual employee labor rates instead of at the rate held against the work center if you indicated that the employee rates must be used for a particular work center. The work center overhead recovery rates are still applied.

Field Description
Indicator Indicates the rate indicator number.
Description Indicates the description defined against the indicator number.

You use the Browse on Employee Rate Descriptions program to define the descriptions for the rate indicators.
Uom Indicates the unit of measure defined against the indicator number.

You use the Browse on Employee Rate Descriptions program to define the time unit of measure for each rate.
Rate Enter the rate of pay applicable to the rate indicator.

Copy Employee Rates

You use these fields to copy a rate against the employee to another rate against the same employee. In addition, you can increase a rate by a specified multiple.

Field Description
Copy Copies the source rate to the target rate indicator and applies a multiplier.
Source indicator Indicate the source indicator you want to use to create or copy to the target rate.
Target indicator Indicate the rate indicator that must be updated.
Multiplier Indicate the rate by which the target rate must be changed. The Target rate becomes the Source rate multiplied by the value you enter in this field.

Enter 1.00 to make the rate for the target indicator the same as the source rate.

Notes and warnings

eSignature considerations

Electronic Signatures provide security access, transaction logging and event triggering. This enables you to increase control over your system changes.

Access to the following eSignature transactions within this program can be restricted at Operator, Group, Role or Company level. You configure this using the eSignature Setup program.

eSignature Transaction Description
BOM Employee added

Controls access to the New and Add functions in the Employees and Browse on Employees programs.
BOM Employee changed

Controls access to the maintenance of employees in the Employees and Browse on Employees programs.
BOM Employee deleted

Controls access to the Delete function in the Employees and Browse on Employees programs.

Hints and tips

Measuring employee efficiency

  • Print the Employee Efficiency report to measure the efficiency of your employees. The report lists month-to-date values processed for a range of selected employees from entries made in the Labor Posting program.

Inserting Application Help

You would typically follow this procedure to display help for the current program in a customized pane that can be pinned to the program window.

Information includes step-by-step instructions for the various functions available within the program, including a brief overview of what the program does, what setup options are required and how to personalize the program.

  1. Open the program for which you want to insert application help into a customized pane.

    This functionality is only available for a program that has panes.

  2. Right-click any form field.

    You can also click the triangle menu icon that appears in the title area of a pane.

  3. Select Insert Application Help from the context-sensitive menu.

    The application help appears in a pane within your program. You can reposition the pane using the docking stickers or pin it to the program window.

Removing the Application Help pane

If you no longer want to display application help in a pane for your current program, you can simply remove it.

  1. Select the Close icon in the right-hand corner of the application help pane.

  2. Confirm that you want to delete the pane.