This topic provides an overview of the Rate Change and Multi-Job Rules in Shop-Trak.
Rate Change Rules are designed to allow companies to pay incentive rates to employees. These incentives can be assigned to employees based on unique work centers or all work centers.
These rules apply to transaction types of: Setup, Run, Break, Start Additional, Multi-Job, and Team. Indirect transactions will not have the Rate Change Rules applied. These rules are applied at the start of any of the above transactions. It is important to note, the Multi-Job Rate Change Rules apply to all jobs of the primary work center.
NOTE: Secondary work centers rate change rules do not apply.
NOTE: Rate change rules apply only to transactions entered from Shop-Trak. They will not apply to transactions entered in the Unposted Job Transactions form.
The following configurations are possible within the same Effective Dates. If multiple Rate Change Rules exist during an employee’s transaction, the rate with the highest priority will be selected and applied to those transactions. Priorities are defined as follows from the highest to lowest priority: (1) Assigned employee with an assigned work center. (2) Assigned employee for all work centers. (3) All employees for an assigned work center. (4) All employees for all work centers.
Employee # |
Work Center |
34 |
AS-500 |
34 |
* |
* |
AS-500 |
These incentives can be based on multiple calculated values applying to the employee’s rates in Rates and Taxes.
Percent (%) - Pay Rate * (1 + Percent Premium)
Dollar ($) - Pay Rate plus Dollar Premium
Flat $/Hr (F) - Flat Dollar Amount
When applying manufacturing rates, the above calculations are used utilizing the rates in the employees manufacturing rate fields.
Employee 34 has a Pay Rate of $10.00 and a Mfg Rate of $15.00. Notice in the following example, the break interrupted the work at the operation that carried a premium. Accordingly, the break carries the same premium. Lunch transactions will not carry the premium factors.
Start |
End |
Type |
Total Time |
Pay Rate |
Mfg Rate |
7:00 |
7:30 |
Indirect |
0.500 |
$10.00 |
0 or Mfg. Rate |
7:31 |
11:30 |
Run-WC AS-500 premium $.50 |
3.983 |
$10.50 |
15.5 |
10:30 |
11:00 |
Break-Premium work interrupted |
0.500 |
$10.50 |
15.5 |
11:31 |
12:00 |
Lunch |
0.483 |
$10.00 |
15 |
12:01 |
15:00 |
Run-WC FA-100 no premium |
2.983 |
$10.00 |
15 |
Time |
Pay Rate |
Mfg. Rate |
0.500 |
$10.00 |
0 or Mfg. Rate |
3.983 |
$10.50 |
15.5 |
0.500 |
$10.50 |
15.5 |
0.483 |
$10.00 |
15 |
2.983 |
$10.00 |
15 |
Multi-Job Rules are designed to allow or disallow multi-job transactions across multiple work centers. In order to utilize Multi-Job, a rule must be defined for the work center.
Allowing Multi-Job Across Work Centers allows the user to enter multiple jobs defined to multiple work centers and allocate actual time to all jobs. Rules defined, as Allow Across Work Centers will only allow entry of jobs to work centers that have a rule defined as Allow Across Work Centers. No secondary functionality applies.
Disallowing Multi-Job Across Work Centers only allows the primary work center to be reported against. (A secondary work center can be entered when the employee is performing secondary operations. Only time at the Primary work center will be split among jobs. The secondary operation will be for the planned amount of time in the Infor SyteLine Job/Operation file and costed at either the Employee’s Manufacturing Rate or at no cost as determined by Shop-Trak's Flag parameters for Cost Secondary Jobs.) Unselecting Allow Across Work Centers will only allow entry of jobs to the primary work center and secondary functionality will apply only to a work center with no rule defined.
NOTE: Even though the parameters allow the Multi-Job transaction type, the Multi-Job option will NOT be available on the Shop Floor until Multi-Job Work Center rules are defined. This was done to disallow users from logging into a Multi-Job transaction but then not being able to end it because there are no Multi-Job rules.
Shop-Trak Machine Transaction Rules