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 Single-Mixed and Multimixed Resources

Definition

You can use mixed resources for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), Capable-to-Match (CTM), and Supply Network Planning (SNP). Single mixed resources correspond to single-activity resources in PP/DS, and multimixed resources correspond to multiactivity resources.

Structure

Mixed resources also have a SNP bucket capacity in addition to time-continuous and PP/DS bucket capacity .

You can derive the SNP bucket capacities of mixed resources from the time-continuous capacity or define these separately. You define the parameters for this on the SNP bucket capacity tab page.

When the system calculates the SNP bucket capacity from the time-continuous capacity , the system proceeds as follows:

  • A bucket capacity with the dimension ‘time’ is determined for a single mixed resource and this is calculated by multiplying the working time by the loss factor.

  • In this case, you cannot assign a dimension or unit of measure to the time-continuous capacity of a multimixed resource . The SNP bucket capacity is calculated from the time-continuous capacity with the dimension ‘time’ according to the following formula:

    (Resource working time) x (time-continuous capacity) x (loss factor).

    You use the loss factor to balance out the fact that neither sequence-dependent setup activities nor relationships are taken into consideration in SNP.

    Note Note

    If the SNP bucket capacity is determined from the time-continuous capacity, you cannot define any costs. If you define the SNP bucket capacity directly, you can define costs in the capacity variant using the definition of the quantity or rate.

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