Dispatching / Scheduling 

Purpose

You can use this business process to schedule work orders and operations that have already been planned. Planned orders already contain the operations and their durations, and assigned material or components. In its simplest terms, maintenance scheduling matches the availability of maintenance labor and material resources to the request for these from work orders. A scheduler then has to select this list of work orders and operations in order to schedule them for the correct time period. Work orders can be scheduled at several levels, often as a multi-step process with increasing levels of detail.

Prerequisites

The work orders have already been planned and any required links or association between the work orders has been established. A planned order should already have all the required instructions and parts required to complete the order.

Process Flow

The following business process runs in SAP ECC:

       1.      Review list of planned orders

       2.      Move orders to weekly dates of revisions

       3.      Review capacity levels at weekly level

       4.      Move and assign work to appropriate week

       5.      Add additional links or modify orders

       6.      Prepare and print list of orders

       7.      Dispatch to work center

       8.      Dispatch to individual person

Result

Work is properly planned and scheduled for the team or the individual. Work orders (paper or electronic) not only have detailed steps but are scheduled to be carried out when capacity is available.