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If the planned duration of an operation or suboperation exceeds the working time of an employee, the system provides two ways in which you can create an assignment. Either overtime hours are used (depending on the required amount of overtime) or the assignment is automatically split, whereby the system creates a new assignment for the same employee on the next working day.

If you create a new assignment, the system checks whether the assignment is to be split into multiple assignments. The split is taken into account only if you, as the resource planner, have not already entered the start and end times for the assignment manually.

The following factors determine whether an assignment can be split:

  • Dates of the assignment to be created

  • Availability of the resource

  • Parameters of the planning board profile

Prerequisites

In Customizing for SAP Multiresource Scheduling, you have defined the prerequisites for automatically splitting assignments in the IMG activity Define Planning Board Profile under Set Up Scheduler Workplace.

Note Note

If you do not use the split function, set the Min. Duration for the split to very high.

If you do not want to permit overtime hours, set the Min. Duration parameter for the split to zero. Also set the Max. Overtime Hours parameter to zero. Assignments are then split whenever they exceed the availability limits unless the Max. Diff. parameter is to be considered by the system.

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Features

  • Potential splits are based on the availability of the resource. Existing assignments are not taken into account.

  • If the split results in several assignments, each assignment is independent of the others. No information is provided that states the assignments are the result of a split.

  • The following parameters are relevant for an automatic split:

    • Minimum duration of an assignment to be split

    • Maximum overtime duration

    • Maximum ratio of overtime to total duration

    • Maximum different between two assignments

  • The system first examines the total duration of the assignment. If this is smaller than the minimum duration that an assignment must have to be split, no split can take place.

  • If a split results in two assignments, the parameters Maximum Overtime Hours and Maximum Ratio in % are used. Note: If the conditions specified by the parameters can be fulfilled without splitting, the assignment is not split.

  • The Max. Diff. parameter prevents an assignment from being split into two assignments that are a significant amount of time apart (for example, because an employee is on vacation). A split is prevented if the amount of time between the two assignments is longer than the maximum difference.

Activities

  • You can view the most important criteria for splitting assignments by choosing   Extras   Technical Information  .

  • The systems splits the assignments automatically in accordance with the conditions defined in Customizing when you create the assignments using drag & drop.

  • You can prevent assignments from being split automatically by creating them using the dialog box. In the Details for Assignment dialog box, deselect the Allow Splitting indicator, which is selected by default.

    For more information about creating assignments, see Creating Assignments.

Example

The following parameters are valid:

Minimum duration = 3 hours

Maximum overtime = 2 hours

Maximum ratio = 50%

The resource works daily from 7:00 to 17:00.

  • You create an assignment at 16:45 with a duration of 2.5 hours.

    Scheduling: Assignment from 16:45 to 19:15 since the duration is shorter than 3 hours.

  • You create an assignment at 15:00 with a duration of 5 hours.

    Scheduling: Assignment from 15:00 to 17:00 and from 7:00 to 10:00 the following day.

  • You create an assignment at 15:00 with a duration of 3 hours.

    Scheduling: Assignment from 15:00 to 18:00. One hour of overtime does not exceed the maximum overtime permitted and the ratio of overtime hours to the total duration is only 33% (maximum ration is 50%).