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Process documentationScheduling with the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board

 

This process describes how you schedule interactively with the help of the detailed scheduling planning board to solve scheduling problems at resources; for example, problems with dates and sequencing problems.

Prerequisites

SAP issues the detailed scheduling planning board with standard settings (for example, for configuration or layout). If you want to configure a detailed scheduling planning board for your specific scheduling requirements, you must make the relevant settings. For more information, see Profile Maintenance and Customizing for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling.

Process

The process is shown in the following graphic:

  1. You call up the detailed scheduling planning board directly in the Production Planning area menu, in order processing, or in the product planning table.

    You perform simulative planning in the detailed scheduling planning board as you do for every application in interactive production planning (for example, product planning table or order processing). When calling up the application, the system automatically generates a copy of the current planning version, known as a simulation version. You schedule in this simulation version based on the status of the planning version at the time the application is called up.

  2. You check the schedule and identify the scheduling problems

    The following are helpful:

    • Alert monitor (see Alert Monitor)

    • Plan monitor (see Plan Monitor)

    • Various evaluations, for example, for resource utilization or work-in-process stocks

  3. You can try to solve the scheduling problems by doing the following:

    • Scheduling or rescheduling operations or orders using drag and drop

    • Rescheduling or scheduling operations or orders with the help of detailed scheduling heuristics, for example, with sequencing or with backlog rescheduling

    • Changing the available capacity and planning parameters of the resources

    • Creating or changing orders

    • Optimizing the schedule

  4. You update the simulation version as required

    The planning version may change while you are processing the simulation version using the detailed scheduling planning board when other planners confirm operations or create orders, for example. If you want to take account of the current scheduling status in the planning version in the simulation version, you must update the simulation version. During the update, the system merges the planning data from the planning version (which has a higher priority than the planning data in the simulation version) with the simulation version data.

  5. You adopt the changes in the schedule.

    The planning version remains unchanged by your scheduling activities in the simulation version, until you copy the planning data from the simulation version to the planning version.

Constraints

The following actions are not supported:

  • Selection and transfer of blocks from the planning board into the transaction

  • Mass conversions directly triggered out of the planning board