Campaign Alerts 

Use

During manual and automatic (campaign optimization) campaign planning, the system checks campaign-specific requirements. If the campaign contains errors, the system issues campaign alerts. You can use a correction heuristic to eliminate these campaign alerts.

Prerequisites

PP/DS alert profile
For the DS planning board to display campaign alerts, you must maintain a PP/DS alert profile with all alerts relevant to campaign planning. You then assign this alert profile to your planning board profile. In the planning board profile, you must also specify the display mode for the alerts.
For more information, see Monitoring PP/DS Alerts.

Features

Campaign Requirements

A production campaign does not contain errors if the following requirements are met:

·        The orders of a campaign that are scheduled on the same resource are not interrupted by orders that do not belong to this campaign.

·        The setup order is at the beginning of the campaign and the clean-out order is at the end.

Campaign Alert Messages

Depending on the reason for the error, the system issues the following campaign alert messages:

·        Campaign interrupted

·        Setup or clean-out order lies within a campaign

Campaign Alert Display

Campaign alerts are displayed as follows:

·        In the campaign transaction, the Campaign Alerts tab is displayed if alerts exist. On this tab, an alert message is displayed for each order that causes alerts. At the same time, the  Eliminate Campaign Alerts pushbutton is visible.

·        In the Alert Monitor, all campaign alerts that are within the planning period of the DS planning board are displayed.

·        In the DS planning board, the orders start blinking to optically point to campaign alerts.

Activities

Eliminating Campaign Alerts

·        In the campaign transaction, you choose  Eliminate Campaign Alerts. The system uses the correction heuristic to deallocate the orders causing alerts and tries to reschedule them according to the settings in the strategy profile. If rescheduling is not possible, the orders remain deallocated.

You can use the /SAPAPO/PCM02_ALERTS Business Add-In to implement your own logic according to which campaign alerts are eliminated.
To implement this BAdI, go to Customizing for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) and choose Business Add-In → Eliminate Campaign Alerts.

·        In the DS planning board, you must remove the orders causing the alerts from the campaign using drag and drop and reschedule them. In addition, you can start a new optimization run with campaign optimization. During optimization, the system may be able to eliminate some of the campaign alerts.

Example

The following example illustrates how you can correct campaigns with errors in the DS planning board.

Initial situation:
A campaign consisting of operations OA1 an OA3 lies within the planning period. Another operation (OB2) was scheduled between these operations. However, it does not belong to the campaign and therefore causes the Campaign interrupted campaign alert:
( OA1  OB2^Alert  OA3 )

Activity:
You can eliminate the campaign alert by first removing individual operations from the campaign and then rescheduling them. You can choose between the following two options:

·        Activity A
You use Drag&Drop to move operation OB2^Alert  to a date after the campaign. The campaign itself is not moved on the time axis but the system can modify the campaign as follows

¡        It pushes operations OA1 and OA3 closer together.
â ( OA1  OA3 )  OB2^Alert

¡        It keeps the distance between OA1 and OA3.
â ( OA1  ___  OA3 )  OB2^Alert

·        Activity B
You leave operation OB2^Alert  where it is, and instead use Drag&Drop to move operations OA1 and OA3 to a date after VB2^Alert . The system automatically moves the campaign bar in parallel to the operations.

â OB2^Alert  (OA1  OA3 )

The campaign alert Campaign interrupted disappears in both cases. Note, however, that new alerts may be caused as a result of rescheduling.