Scheduling with the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board Scheduling with the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board
Purpose
This process describes how you schedule interactively with the help of the
detailed scheduling planning board in order to solve scheduling problems at resources; for example, problems with dates and sequencing problems.
Prerequisites
SAP issues the detailed scheduling planning board with standard settings (for example, for configuration or layout). If you want to configure a detailed scheduling planning board for your specific planning requirements, you must execute the relevant settings. For more information, see the
Detailed Scheduling Planning Board and the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling.
Process
The process is shown in the following graphic:
directly in the Production Planning area menu,
in order processing, or
in the product planning board.
You perform simulative planning in the detailed scheduling planning board - as you do for every application in interactive production planning (for example, product planning table or order processing): When calling up the application, the system automatically generates a copy of the current
Check the schedule and identify the scheduling problems
The following are helpful:
Alert Monitor
Plan Monitor
resource overload or
work-in-process stocks
Try to solve the scheduling problems by doing the following:
Scheduling or rescheduling operations or orders using Drag&Drop
detailed scheduling heuristics, for example, with
sequencing or with
backlog rescheduling
Changing the capacity and planning parameters of the resources
Creating or changing orders
Optimizing the schedule
Update the simulation version as required
The planning version may change while you are processing the simulation version using the detailed scheduling planning board when other planners confirm operations or create orders. If you want to take the current planning status into account in the simulation version, you must update the simulation version. During the update, the system merges the planning data from the planning version with the data in the simulation version that has a higher priority than the planning data in the simulation version.
Save the schedule. The planning version remains unchanged by your scheduling activities in the simulation version until you copy the planning data from the simulation version to the planning version. Because you have changed the planning version in the meantime (see above), the system does not simply copy the simulation version to the planning version when you save, but merges the planning data of the simulation version with the planning version. In doing so, the system only adopts planning data from the simulation version into the planning version when the planning situation in the planning version does not have priority.
You rescheduled an operation in the simulation version on another date. In the meantime, the operation is confirmed in the planning version. If you adopt the simulation version into the planning version, the confirmation of the operation has priority over the rescheduling; that is, the change of date is not copied into the planning version.
In the directly called up detailed scheduling planning board, you can also save the simulation version without changing the planning version. You can process the saved simulation versions at a later point in time with the detailed scheduling planning board.