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Function documentationDefinition of Downtimes

 

You use this function to specify downtimes, that is time segments in which resources are not available.

You can define downtimes for all resource types and for the Driver business partner.

Prerequisites

You have created a resource. For more information, see Creating Handling, Vehicle, and Calendar Resources.

Features

Downtimes override the availability of a resource. They exclude vehicle resources from planning. In the case of handling resources, downtimes can reduce the available capacity (but a remaining available capacity of 0 also excludes a handling resource from planning).

A differentiation is made between scheduled downtime (for example, for maintenance) and non-scheduled, unexpected downtime (for example, due to a machine breakdown).

Downtimes differ from a regular, scheduled non-working time based on the factory calendar or the shift sequence (for example, break or holiday).

Note Note

Downtimes outside the validity period are not taken into consideration during planning. It is not useful to define downtimes that are outside the validity period of the resource, since a capacity has not been defined for the resource for these times.

End of the note.

For a driver, you can specify absences and non-working times. Absences can represent sickness or vacation. Non-working times, for example weekends or public holidays, are defined in the calendar. Scheduling considers both absences and non-working times.

Activities

You define a downtime for the resource that you have created on the Change Resources: Header Data screen by specifying on the Downtimes tab page a start date/time and end date/time as well as the downtime type (scheduled or non-scheduled downtime). In addition, you can enter a language-dependent short text that describes the downtime in more detail.

For Driver business partners, you define downtimes in the Absence screen area of the business partner master data.

Example

A handling resource has a capacity of 5. Due to a reduced load, you specify a downtime to reduce the handling resource’s capacity for a specific period of time to 2.