Scheduling in Monitoring Dates 

Purpose

In Monitoring Dates you can display and edit dates for various, freely definable events in the supply chain. These dates often bear a direct relationship to each other.

For several components you know from experience that two weeks after submitting inquiries to potential vendors, you usually issue a purchase order. The vendor then requires 20 days to manufacture the components and ship them to you. In Monitoring Dates you can specify the order in which events occur and the time between two consecutive events. Starting at any point in the sequence of events, you can schedule (backwards or forwards) the remaining events in the sequence.

Prerequisites

You have defined events in Customizing.

You have created at least one group for the project.

Process Flow

  1. You select a group and assign this group events as usual (see Assigning Events to a Group).
  2. You can also specify a factory calendar for the group. If you do not enter a calendar, the system uses the factory calendar of the plant. Additionally you can specify a scheduling scenario (see below and Scheduling Scenarios).
  3. You specify the position of each event that is to be scheduled in the sequence.
  4. You specify the time offset between the current event and the following event in the sequence.
  5. O the Dates overview you can specify the scheduling parameters, such as the events to be scheduled, which date types are to be scheduled, and in which direction is to be scheduled. You can decide whether these parameters appear each time you start a scheduling run.
  6. You schedule the required components, starting at any event in the sequence. For more details, refer to Scheduling in Monitoring Dates.

Scheduling Scenarios

If you use the same sequence of events with the same offsets between events frequently, consider defining the sequence as a scheduling scenario in Customizing (Projects System ® Material ® Monitoring Dates ® Define Scheduling Scenarios). Here you can also define how the system deals with dates that are referenced from other objects. You can specify that these dates cannot be changed in the application itself. For more details, see Scheduling Scenarios.

Result

The system schedules the events in the direction specified, using the specified factory calendar. This means that only working days are taken into account.