Creating Capacity Variants 

Use

This section describes how you can combine capacity-relevant data such as different shifts and breaks in a capacity variant.

Prerequisites

You have created a resource.

Procedure

       1.      You are currently in the master data for the required resource (change mode). Choose Definitions. The Create/Change Definitions screen appears.

       2.      Choose the Breaks tab page.

       3.      Create the new break pattern (for example, lunch) and assign a break number (dependent on how many breaks you wish to define for the day).

There are two ways to define breaks:

¡        You specify the start and end of the break.

¡        You specify the number of hours after which a break should take place, and enter the duration of the break. The reference point is always the beginning of the shift. However, this break is not a recurring break. If you want to define a break for resource 2 every 2 hours, you must define a break for 2 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours, and so on after shift begin (taking into account the duration of any previous breaks).

       4.      Choose the Shifts tab page.

       5.      Enter a description for the shift, a validity end, and a start and end for the shift. Assign your break pattern to this shift.

The system does not take account of any shift factors for vehicle resources.

       6.      Choose the Shift Sequences tab page.

       7.      Enter a description, the day number, and the validity end. In the Non-Workdays field, you can choose from the following options to define the start and end of the shift:

¡        Can Finish on a Non-Workday

¡        Can Start on a Non-Workday

¡        Can Only Start or Finish on a Workday

¡        Can Start or Finish on a Non-Workday

       8.      Assign one or more shifts to the shift sequence. Save your entries.

       9.      Go back to the resource master data and choose Capacity Variants. To create a new variant, choose Interval.

   10.      Enter a number and a validity period. Assign the shift sequence to the capacity variant. Select the first day so that the first day of the time interval is the first day of the shift sequence.

You have defined a four-day shift sequence. If you enter 2 as the first day, the first day of the time interval has the shifts from the second day of the shift sequence.

There are three ways of defining workdays:

¡        Workdays according to the factory calendar

¡        No workdays (overwrites the factory calendar)

¡        Workdays (overwrites the factory calendar)

   11.      Save the interval and go back to the resource master data.

   12.      On the General Data tab page, assign the capacity variant to the resource.

   13.      Save the resource and assign it to the required model.