AutoPick Job Materials

Having good data is so important, especially when it comes to costs and inventory.  While Fulcrum does display warnings for unpicked material, operators are busy humans and sometimes press through the warning without picking.  This can create situations with understated costs or showing inventory as available that was actually used on a job.

To help reduce missed picks, Fulcrum has added a new setting in Business Setup > System Data > Job Settings called “Auto-pick material on job completion”.

When this setting is on, it will auto-pick planned materials when a job is completed from the job tracker or the job's page.  A few points // FAQs:

• If there isn't enough material in inventory, it won't complete the pick
• If there is already a pick against the material, it will skip it under the assumption that it was intentionally under-picked.

Important Note: If your operators can get in the habit of picking, that will always be the best case scenario.  Explicit picking is more accurate and explicit than any automation.  For that reason and as noted above, there are guardrails on this feature and we stuck to safe assumptions.  That being said, if picking is being missed enough in your shop to cause a data problem beyond the occasional touch up, then check this out!