Product-Dependent Rates
Use
You can use this function if you want to produce materials with different rates. Takt-based scheduling overrides the production rate for these materials with the product-dependent rate. The system schedules all materials for which you have not entered a product-dependent rate, with the production rate.
Note
If you work with a line hierarchy with line balancing, you can enter a model mix in the line balance. Therefore, product-dependent rates are not planned for this process.
Integration
The
product planning table
in the APO system includes the product-dependent rates in takt-based scheduling.
Model mix planning,
in contrast, cannot use the product-dependent rate.
Prerequisites
You have created a definition of the product-dependent rates in the
line resource
and assigned this definition in the tab page
Standard capacity
to the line resource. To define product-dependent rates, choose
Definitions,
then the
Matl-Dep. Rates
(Material-Dependent Rates) tab page. Enter a
name
for the rate, the relevant
product
and a
factor
.
Features
The product-dependent rate allows you to override the production rate for a certain material in takt-based scheduling. As the production rate is time-dependent, you enter the product-dependent rates in relation to the time-independent base rate as a factor. For takt-based scheduling, the system calculates the product-dependent rate by first of all determining the production rate of the period and multiplying this by the product-dependent factor. In this way you ensure that the product-dependent rates are always adjusted in relation to the current production rate of the production line.
You can enter any product-dependent rate for a material, that can be greater or less than the base rate.
Example
This example shows how the system multiplies the product-dependent factor, depending on the period, with the production rate.
