Here’s another EMDECS tip for those using the financial module. It can certainly be handy from time to time to know what customers have reached their credit limit with your shop. Navigate to Reports> Receivable> Customers Close to Credit Limit, filter the results for your needs or leave the fields blank to look at everything.
Here’s a tip for those using the EMDECS financial functions that can be helpful near year end – making changes within closed months. There are 2 important things to remember about doing this. First of all, it is possible, and it’s done by navigating to Financial> Month End> Open Closed Periods. The next, and very important…
DetailsTo all Canadians, I represent everyone behind the EMDECS system with greetings and hopes that Thanksgiving weekend was enjoyable. Truck maintenance and trailer maintenance are functions that don’t always get a break, regardless of the holiday event, but we hope that family time factored in to the weekend as much as possible. Truck and trailer…
DetailsEMDECS is a large heavy duty fleet maintenance management system and it is ever growing with new features and capabilities. Many aspects of truck maintenance and trailer maintenance do not seem to change much from a shop floor perspective, but your management of these procedures might evolve. That’s essentially what a system like EMDECS is…
DetailsThere’s an interesting article in the October 2013 issue of Today’s Trucking magazine about the drive train engineering challenges that exist because of today’s higher torque, lower rpm truck engines. The abuse from the engine on the drive train is described in the article as “a jackhammer, pounding away at the end of your driveshaft…
DetailsThere’s no doubt that using a hand-held scanner to ‘clock on’ to a work order job is efficient and a good use of affordable technology. There is a concern however that mistakes can be made – mostly regarding forgetfulness – a technician might forget to scan onto a job being performed or the tech might…
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For organizations with more than one warehouse location in EMDECS, here’s a tip for displaying only the inventory that has transaction history (receiving, issued to a work order) at only one specific warehouse location – navigate to Inventory> Maintain Warehouse Item> Cost By Warehouse. Indicate the warehouse to display information for and any parts with…
DetailsIt is no secret that CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) software helps organize and improve the efficiency of heavy-duty truck and trailer shop work with one major goal in mind – reducing the possibility of breakdowns. This is accomplished through system driven diligence – most notably, a sound and trustworthy PM schedule and notification system.…
DetailsAlthough EMDECS has been designed to track work activities by VMRS codes, non-repair related work can also be tracked. For idle time, or shop clean-up duties, consider logging duties on a work order that is kept open for a month. At the end of the month, a supervisor can review the duties logged and use…
DetailsSoftware capabilities today have generally progressed much further than a lot of us realize. A system like EMDECS will perform many functions that people might not of have considered – until they have a need, and wonder “Can the system . . . [fill in your need]”. Happily for many, it turns out that EMDECS…
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