A very useful part of Job Control that lets you assess the amount of work given to particular suppliers and whether your requirements place bottlenecks or clashes on them.
The upper part shows a tree view of all unfinished orders. If you have selected any jobs from the jobs grid at the left, the display will be restricted to those jobs. Otherwise all unfinished orders on all jobs are shown.
Command buttons
Refresh. This should be done after changing job selections
Refresh order suppliers. This must be run once to initialize all suppliers. After that, it is updated whenever you rebuild your schedule.
Expands the tree so that all activities are visible
Collapses the tree so that only suppliers are shown are visible
Prints the tree
Emails suppliers an unfinished orders report. You must first run the report to enable this button
Prints an unfinished orders report with updated delivery dates for all expanded suppliers
Clicking any supplier populates the lower chart, showing any unfinished orders for that supplier.
Each row shows the available time range for the order (which cannot be moved without editing the schedule), and the activity time bar (which is moveable within the previously mentioned limits, unless of course there is no float)
The total number of days are shown below, with clashes (more than 1 day) shown in red.These are modified as you move the time bar
Command buttons
Save Changes. After moving time bars, this saves data back to the schedule
Loads the Options screen
Prints the chart
