In most cases, when looking for an item, we know the Item Number to use to search for the item in MISYs. Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we only know the Supplier’s Item Product Code, not the MISys Item ID.

If many Shop Operations need to be processed, the time taken to open and click the Shop Operations icon in each Manufacturing order can be time consuming. To reduce the overall time, MISys has provided a short cut that opens the Process Shop Operations interface.

A new Bill of Material provides cost for a single build unit, but how about large volumes where economies of scale would factor in? One solution is to use inactive manufacturing orders to simulate those costs because the setup for an MO operation is amortized over the volume of parts per setup.

The Items view of the Supply Schedule can be very useful and provides a representation of the Purchase Order Supply Schedule listed by item. This view groups the same items together from all open Purchase Orders.

Another great representation of the Purchase Order Supply Schedule is the Purchase Orders view. This view is useful to see the specific details within an open Purchase Order. Click Purchasing/Supply Schedule to open the Supply Schedule and select Purchase Orders at the top right corner. All Open Purchase Order detail lines will list as Gantt bars in the time horizon.

When processing a SLT transaction in MISys, occasionally a situation may come up when the Serial or Lot number is not known or not readily available at the time the transaction takes place.

If you have users on the floor using MISys EXT with handheld devices, and no actual access to a desktop to do stock look ups – you may have noticed that MISys EXT doesn’t have a “stock inquiry feature”. To get around this, there are a couple of options. The first, is through use of a Dashboard Alert!

All Master Files and many other tables can be displayed as a list in MISys. The list can then be searched, filtered, or grouped to quickly find information.

Did you know there are two ways in MISys to remove broken/scraped inventory from your system.

This post will go through processing scrap using stock control.

The MISys Main menu is the blue banner to the left of the MISys interface screen and can be quickly configured to include just the Business Functions that a user is involved with.

Did you know that MISys has a set of internal alerts that can provide real time speedy information to its users based on specific criteria?

The MISys Production Calendar is used to record the dates where production is shut down. Setting a date on the Production calendar means that MISys will not schedule any work to take place on that day. The Planner / Scheduler has the option of manually scheduling Production orders to override the Production Calendar dates, however.