"For operation '%1', an order must always be entered." Why do you get this message and what can you do to resolve it?

Once BCO has been set up, you can start monitoring the budgets. The various BCO Dashboards serve this purpose. Budget control based on these dashboards is central to this article. In addition, a number of scenarios arising from the design of BCO are discussed.

The standard dashboard 'BCO Man-hours Monitoring' can be used to monitor the extent to which the set budgets correspond to the actual hours worked by your employees. See how productivity and hours efficiency have developed throughout the year and how they relate to what you have budgeted.

BCO stands for Budgeting, Controlling, Optimizing. BCO helps you increase your insight into your company's financial situation and enables you to better determine your cost price. By budgeting your hours and costs now, you will fully cover your business expenses for the coming year with direct and indirect hours, and you will maintain the alignment between order result and business result.

According to your schedule, you should start working at 7:30 AM. You arrived at work later because you first went to the dentist. You want to clock in.

You begin your workday and are logged into the Shop Floor. To clock in, select the first operation by starting a new operation.

Hour categories determine the financial settlement of registered hours. Depending on the hour category, the job group on the employee and the administration settings, the different surcharge percentages are determined for cost price and subsequent calculation of the operation and the time spent and any overtime position, split into a man and machine part.

The standard dashboard 'Employee Hours Analysis (8001)' runs per employee and shows all hours of the year, including not yet definitively processed hours. You get an overview of the number of hours per week, per operation, and per hour type, as well as an overview of the hour balances.