Calling Up the Optimization in the DS Planning Board 

Use

You can call up the optimization in the DS planning board and optimize scheduling for the current simulation version.

Prerequisites

·        The master data for optimization is maintained in Customizing for Basic settings (for example, the network connections to the optimization server and the maximum number of users).

·        You have defined an optimization profile.

Procedure

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       1.      Select the resources in the DS planning board that you want to transfer to the optimization.

If you do not select any resources, the system automatically transfers particular resources to the optimization, depending on where you called up the DS planning board. For example, in the directly called-up DS planning board, the system transfers the resources that you specified in the work area to the optimization.

       2.      Choose Optimize.

       3.      Enter the following data:

 

Data	Description
Start and end date for the optimization horizon	The system optimizes the schedule for this time period during the optimization run.
Earliest start date for the optimized resource load	The system schedules the activities no earlier than this date.

 

       4.      Choose Optimize.

The PP/DS Optimizer screen appears.

       5.      If you want to display the list of resources transferred to the optimization, choose Display resource list.                                                

       6.      You can change the settings for the optimization as required (for example, the optimization criteria or the run time for the optimization run) by choosing Display settings.

       7.      To start the optimization run, choose Start optimization run.

Result

The system executes the optimization.

While the optimization is running, the progress of the values for the individual optimization criteria is displayed graphically. The names and colors of the individual value sequences are listed in a legend. You can show and hide each value sequence by double clicking it. Alternatively, you can select more than one value sequence at a time and show or hide it using a pushbutton.

Another screen section displays the messages created by the system regarding the network or the optimization.

After the optimization run has ended, you can start a new optimization run as required, with changed optimization settings. When you return to the DS planning board, the system adopts the result of the optimization run that was executed last into the simulation version of the DS planning board.

You can use the Plan Monitor to compare the results of various optimization runs.