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  Creating and Assigning the Planning Calendar

Usage

If you want to plan line networks with groups of alternative lines you have to define a planning calendar in APO and assign it to the location and the procedure package so that the working shifts can be calculated in planning.

Features

You save the planning calendar in the APO System in the form of a time stream . Using the planning calendar, you can define the periods (days and shifts) in which the lines are productive. This is particularly important if not all lines are productive at the same time in all shifts.

You can choose Shifts as the Calculation rule if you want to create Shift packages using the LP Procedure . However, you can also use Week (weekdays) as the Calculation rule if you only want to create Daily packages .

You assign the planning calendar to the location and the procedure package you want to use for Model Mix Planning.

Activities

  1. You create the planning calendar in Customizing, under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Calendar Next navigation step Maintain Planning Calendar (Time Stream) End of the navigation path . Here, select Factory calendar (with gaps) and enter the valid Factory calendar in the Calendar field. In the Calculation Rule tab page, choose Shifts or Weeks (Weekdays) depending on whether you want shift packages or daily packages to be created in planning. After generating periods, you can display them in the Periods tab page.

  2. You then assign the planning calendar to the Location in the master data of the location by entering it in the Production calendar field in the Calendar tab page.

  3. You assign the planning calendar to the procedure package by entering it in the Reference calendar field in the Customizing activity Define Procedure Packages .