Definitions
Definition
Resource- and date-independent templates for defining the available capacities of the capacity variants of a resource.
Use
You use definitions to specify capacities in capacity variants for resources. You specify a ‘valid to’ date for each definition. The definitions, their use and data are summarized in the following table.
You can use the where-used list for definitions to check whether a definition is used in resources.
Definitions for Single-Activity and Single Mixed Resources or Multiactivity and Multimixed Resources
Definition |
Use |
Data |
Shift sequence |
In the shift sequence, you define the daily shifts for any number of consecutive days (for example, for a week), with working and break times, utilization rate and capacity (in the case of multiactivity resources) for each shift. You assign shift sequences to the time intervals of a capacity variant. In each interval, the shift sequence is repeated periodically (every seven days, for example). You also specify on which day of a shift sequence an interval should start. |
· Day numbers · Zero to nine shifts per day · Processing of shifts that start or end on non-workdays · Planner group |
Shift |
You define shift data in a shift definition. |
· Shift · Start/end of the shift · Break pattern · Shift factors · Planner group |
Breaks |
In a break pattern, you define the breaks for a shift. |
· Break pattern · Break number · Start and end of the breaks · or · Relative start of the break, in relation to the start of the shift, and the total break duration · Planner group |
Shift factors |
Defining a shift factor means defining the rate of resource utilization and capacity of a shift. |
· Shift factor definition · Validity · Rate of resource utilization · Capacity (multiactivity resources or multimixed resources) · Planner group |
Definitions for Bucket Resources (Quantity/Rate)
Quantity/rate definition |
You define the capacity (quantity or the daily rate) of the resource. |
· Validity · Capacity in two different units of measurement · Period reference (none or day) · Number of days · Planner group · Costs |
Definitions for Line Resources (Rate Model, Product-Dependent Rates)
Rate model |
Production rate of the resource for different validity periods |
· Validity · Planner group · Units of time · Units of measure · Language-dependent short texts |
Product-dependent rates |
If you produce products with different rates, you define product-dependent rates for specific line resources. |
· Validity · Planner group · Factor · Language-dependent short texts |
Planning Version-Specific Definitions
You can create definitions that are dependent on or independent of planning versions. Definitions that are independent of planning versions are available for all planning versions until a change that is specific to a planning version is made in the definition. This then counts as an object in its own right and is no longer affected by changes in the associated planning version-independent definition.
Consequently, changes to a definition that is independent of planning versions immediately affect all planning versions that use this definition and do not already contain this definition as a separate object.
For
more information, see
Planning-Version
Dependent and Planning-Version-Independent Master Data.
Example
The following graphics are examples of how you can define the capacity of capacity variants for a resource using definitions.
Definition of Capacity Variants for Single-Activity and Multiactivity Resources or Single Mixed and Multimixed Resources
Definition of Capacity Variants for Bucket Resources
