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scheduling

Industry-Specific Component Oil (IS-OIL)

The main objectives of the scheduling function are as follows:

• Group deliveries into shipments

• Assign shipments to an appropriate vehicle

• Optimize grouping of deliveries and shipment processing with respect to cost, efficiency and customer service.

Portionierung und Terminsteuerung (IS-U-BF-PS)

Planning and controlling of the following functions:

• Meter reading order creation

• Billing

• Determination of budget billing amount due dates

Production Planning and Control (PP)

In scheduling, the system calculates the start and finish dates of orders or of operations within an order.

Scheduling is carried out in

• Material requirements planning: The in-house production times and the delivery times specified in the material master record are taken into account.

• Capacity planning: Scheduling is carried out using routings. A distinction is made between lead time scheduling, in which capacity loads are not taken into account, and finite scheduling in which capacity loads are taken into account.

• Networks: Scheduling calculates the earliest and latest dates for the execution of the activities as well as the capacity requirements and the floats.

The following scheduling types exist:

• Forward scheduling: scheduling starting from the start date

• Backward scheduling: scheduling starting from the finish date

• Scheduling to current date: scheduling starting from the current date

• "Today" scheduling: a scheduling type which can be used to reschedule an order if the start date is in the past.

Industry-Specific Components for Hospitals (IS-H)

Scheduling of the admission of a patient at a future date and time.