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Version: 8.2

Capacity & scheduling

Configuration​

Access : Application config → Apps management → Manufacturing, configure → click on the company file to open Configuration by company → define Capacity and Scheduling in the Planificatuin section.

  1. Capacity: select from ‘Finite’ or ‘Infinite’.
  • Finite capacity: when planning production orders in finite capacity, schedules and other existing operations (planned or in progress) on items that have been defined beforehand will be taken into account.

This makes it possible to define approximate production lead times for the various workstations. In finite capacity, the aim is to enable automatic planning.

Here, resources are limited and two operations cannot be scheduled simultaneously. In this way, you get planning that is closer to the reality of your industrial processes.

  • Infinite capacity: schedules are taken into account. However, other operations are not taken into account. For example, when planning a manufacturing order, if you have two manufacturing orders to carry out, it is up to the user to decide in which order the operations will be carried out.

In this case, there are no resource limits, and the operations can be superimposed in order to plan the operations in the shortest possible time.

In ERP, this has a direct impact on the planning of manufacturing operations, and consequently on the planning of manufacturing orders.

  1. Scheduling: select from ‘as soon as possible’ and ‘at the latest’.

  • As soon as possible: scheduling uses the start date of the manufacturing order as a reference. If this is empty, the current date is used.

  • At the latest: conversely, planning starts from the end date of the manufacturing order and works backwards in time. In the case of a sales order, the estimated dispatch date is used as the reference. If the planning of the manufacturing order goes back before today's date, an error message is displayed, telling the user to review his requirements date.

caution

If the capacity has been defined as "finished" with scheduling "at the latest", the system will alert you that the deadline will not be met, and that you will have to look further ahead in order to be able to carry out this manufacturing (the operations brought up will try to pass before the current date).

End dates​

  • End dates can be defined manually in manufacturing orders in the ‘Dates’ tab.

  • The finish date can also be filled in automatically from the manufacturing order generation via the CBN according to the requirements date.

  • In addition, the end date can also be filled in automatically from sales orders. For example, if you're doing one-off production, you'll generate manufacturing orders from sales orders.

Here, the estimated dispatch date is used as the reference for the end date.

If you generate manufacturing orders automatically from sales orders, you will be blocked if the order confirmation indicates that the delivery date cannot be met.

This gives sales staff a view of what can and cannot be produced, and what can be sold to customers.