Scheduling Parameters (SAP Library - Customer Service (CS))

Scheduling Parameters

Use

You can use the scheduling parameters to adapt the scheduling process to meet your individual requirements.

Features

The maintenance of scheduling parameters is dependent on the maintenance plan type.

Maintenance for Single Cycle Plans and Multiple Counter Plans

You maintain the scheduling parameters for single cycle plans and multiple counter plans directly in the maintenance plan.

Maintenance for Strategy Plans

For maintenance plans with a maintenance strategy, the system copies the scheduling parameters defined in the strategy to the maintenance plan. The scheduling parameters are default values that you can change in the maintenance plan.

Take account of the following special features for modifications:

Changes that you perform in the maintenance strategy will not affect the scheduling parameters of existing maintenance plans.

However, maintenance packages are referenced. In other words, when you make changes in the maintenance packages of the maintenance strategy, (for example, delete packages, change the preliminary or follow-up buffer), the changes are also valid for the maintenance plans to which you have assigned the strategy.

General Information on Maintenance

You can maintain the scheduling parameters in the maintenance plan or in the maintenance strategy. The following table shows which scheduling parameters you can only maintain in the maintenance strategy and which you can maintain in both the strategy and the maintenance plan:

S: Maintenance only possible in the maintenance strategy
W, S: Maintenance possible in both the strategy and the maintenance plan

The following scheduling parameters are available for different maintenance plan types:

Scheduling parameters	Single Cycle and Strategy Plan		Multiple Counter
	Time-based	Performance-based
Scheduling indicators	W, S
...for date determination
Shift factor	W, S	W, S
Tolerance	W, S	W, S
Cycle modification factor	W, S	W, S	W, S
...for call control
Call horizon	W, S	W, S
Scheduling period	W, S
Confirmation requirement	W	W
Others
Preliminary buffer	S	S	W, S
Follow-up buffer	S	S
Link type			W, S
Maintenance package hierarchy	S	S