Standard job overview

A standard job is a repeatable task that can be carried out on a model of equipment (for example repair engine before failure). A standard job is represented as a financial breakdown of the work. A standard job can also be represented as a list of labour activities, each with an associated list of parts. When included in a standard job, a set of labour activities is referred to as a standard job operation (or simply operation). It is valid for a standard job to contain no operations. In this case, the standard job is represented purely as a financial breakdown of a piece of work, with no list of operations.

A standard job has two aspects:

A set of attributes that define the standard job.
A set of pricing attributes for each branch. Whenever one or more of the attributes that define a standard job changes, each of the sets of pricing attributes will be affected. Conversely, whenever one or more of the pricing attributes (for a particular branch) changes, the definition of the standard job will be unaffected, and hence the pricing attributes for other branches will also be unaffected.

There are two sources for standard jobs:

External systems, such as an enterprise resource system (for example, SAP, Ellipse, DBS) which are imported through a specific interface (contact your system administrator for more information).
AMT (Standard jobs created in AMT).

Other points to note about standard jobs:

A standard job can consist of a number of operations (steps).
Each operation has a labour requirement and a bill of materials.
You can nominate the probability of parts usage for a part entered into the bill of materials.