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Component documentation Detailed Scheduling Planning Board  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

You use the detailed scheduling planning board for the:

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·        Graphical representation of the planning situation

You can graphically represent different aspects of scheduling in the charts of the detailed scheduling planning board. For example, you can show the situation of operations on resources over time and the development of the resource utilization or pegging relationships between orders over time.

·        Interactive solution of planning problems

You can perform interactive scheduling on the detailed scheduling planning board to solve scheduling problems such as sequence or date/time problems on resources. Various scheduling functions and heuristics are available in addition to manual scheduling with Drag&Drop.

Integration

The detailed scheduling planning board is integrated in different Production Planning applications. You can call up the detailed scheduling planning board:

·        Directly in the area menu for production planning

·        In order processing

·        In the product planning table

On the DS planning board, you schedule simulatively. For more information, see Scheduling with the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board.

Features

SAP provides the detailed scheduling planning boards with standard settings (for example, for setup or layout). If you want to configure a detailed scheduling planning board for your specific scheduling requirements, you must make the appropriate settings. For more information, see Profile Maintenance and the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling.

Toolbars

There are 2 toolbars above the DS planning board. The upper toolbar contains pushbuttons for the following functions:

·        This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Updating the planning board

·        Evaluations: This graphic is explained in the accompanying text  Alert Monitor, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text  Plan Monitor, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Logs

·        Settings for planning: This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Strategy, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Profiles

·        Planning functions: This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Optimize, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Reschedule, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Deallocate

·        This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Undo last scheduling function (This pushbutton is only active after a reversible function has been executed.)

Layout of the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board

When you invoke the detailed scheduling planning board for the first time, the selection area is shown in the left-hand part of the screen. You can control the display of the selection area via Settings -> User Settings and save the setting on a user-specific basis.

Note

The setting you make on the detailed scheduling planning board is independent of the setting in the resource planning table (see Configuring the Resource Planning Table).

The selection area serves to provide an overview of the loaded products and resources and to show and hide objects (see Hiding and Showing Objects).

Selection Area

In the selection area, two buttons are available enabling you to invoke the following two objects:

·        Resources

Contains all resources that have been selected and loaded onto the detailed scheduling planning board.

·        Products

Contains all products that have been selected and loaded onto the detailed scheduling planning board.

You can hide the buttons via This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Close. To restore the buttons, choose Settings → User Settings and select the relevant indicator on the Navigation Area tab page.

In the user settings, you can generally control the display of the selection area and buttons.

·        You specify whether the work area is displayed as standard when the detailed scheduling planning board is invoked.

·        Via the Active indicator, you specify which button (resource or product pool) is to be opened when the resource planning table is invoked.

·        You can specify the width of the work area.

You can use the standard list functions for the objects displayed via the button.

Work Area

The work area of the detailed scheduling planning board can consist of up to eight charts arranged over one another. You specify the configuration and layout of the DS planning board using a planning board profile.

Display Period and Planning Period

The DS planning board displays the schedule for a time period defined by the user. You can change the schedule for a certain time period within the display period, the planning period. How you specify the time periods depends on where you call up the DS planning board.

Displayed Objects

Which concrete objects are displayed in the DS planning board depends on where you call up the DS planning board. For more information, see Selection of Objects to be Displayed.

Objects That Can Be Scheduled

You specify which objects (resources, products) you can schedule in interactive Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling using a propagation range. You can specify resources and products in the propagation range. The resources in the propagation range are relevant to resource-related scheduling on the DS planning board. The products are relevant to product-related scheduling in interactive scheduling (for example, order processing). You cannot change the schedule for objects outside the propagation range.

 

 

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