Posting Labour and Materials

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Adding Labour to a Manufactured Job

Labour for a manufactured job can be entered from timesheets or via the job card. Use this option to post labour directly to a manufactured job in MJC.

Technical Tip

You can also post labour in batches using the Batch Timesheet program in MJC (refer to "Transactions – Batch Timesheets").

Display the Job Information screen for the job you want to post labour to.

Refer to "Maintaining the Manufactured Job Header".

Select the Accept button or press F2 to proceed.

Micronet displays the Manufactured Job Entry screen.

Select EDIT | LABOUR.

Technical Tip

By default, the Manufactured Job Entry screen is set to EDIT | ITEM so you add or edit materials for a job (refer to "Adding Materials to a Manufactured Job" ). When you select this menu option, EDIT | LABOUR is selected so you can add or edit labour. You can also add or edit text for a job (refer to "Adding Text to a Manufactured Job").

If you want to:

add a labour line to the job, select the Add button
insert a labour line in the job, select the line below where you want the line inserted then select the Insert button
delete a labour line from the job, select the line then select the Delete button
edit a labour line, double click on a line or select a line then press Enter.

If you selected to add, insert or edit a labour line, Micronet displays the Add Labour to Job screen.

Complete the following fields:

	Field	Value
	Job Number	Micronet displays the job number.
	Employee No	Enter the employee ID for this entry. You can also press Tab or Enter to select an employee. Micronet displays the employee name/description on the following line. This line can be overwritten if you want to store free text information relating to this transaction posting. Text entered here is stored and can be displayed on job inquiries, the job card and/or reports.
	Operation	Micronet displays the employee's default operation. You can change this if required by overwriting the displayed operation, or by deleting the displayed operation and pressing Tab or Enter to select a different operation.
	Stage	Micronet displays the default stage for this job as set in the Department master file (refer to "Adding a New Department"). If you have created other stages for your job, you can change this to the job stage for the labour you are adding.

Reference

If your job has multiple stages and you haven't created them yet, refer to "Manufactured Job Entry - Stages".

	Date	Enter or select the date on which the employee performed the work.
	Actual Hours	Enter the actual hours the employee worked.
	Overtime Rate	Select the employee overtime rate as setup in your MJC company configuration.
	Line Total	Micronet calculates and displays Actual Hours x Overtime Rate.

Optionally, you can perform any of the following edits or actions on the Add Labour to Job screen if required:

enter user defined questions - refer to "Add Labour to Job - User Q"
perform an inquiry on the employee - refer to "Add Labour to Job - Inquiry"
move an employee's labour entry from the current job to another job - refer to "Add Labour to Job - Job"
enter free text for the manufactured job - refer to "Add Labour to Job - Text"
add materials to the manufactured job - refer to "Add Labour to Job - Item".

When you have finished adding or maintaining labour for the job, select the Accept button.

If you added labour to the job, Micronet redisplays the Add Labour to Job screen so you can post further labour if required.

When you have finished posting labour to the job, select the Cancel button.

Micronet redisplays the Manufactured Job Entry screen, showing the items, text and labour posted to the job at the bottom of the screen.

Continue processing the job by completing the steps required in the "Manufactured Jobs Overview".