Schedule Work Order Site

Explanation

This activity is used to automatically reschedule all work order operations for a site, when the site is enabled for use with IFS/Constraint Based Scheduling.

Note: This activity is also available as a scheduled task that can be set up to run for instance during the night.

Prerequisites

To perform this activity, the scheduling server must be up and running for the work order site.

System Effects

As a result of this activity, all work orders belonging to the site will be rescheduled based on the options selected in the dialog box.

Window

Schedule Work Order Site

Related Window Descriptions

Schedule Work Order Site

Procedure

Open the Schedule Work Order Site dialog box.
In the Site field, enter the work order site you want rescheduled. Click List to select a valid value.
In the Dispatch Rule field, select a rule to specify how the scheduling logic should sort work orders before scheduling begins.
Select the Set Scheduling Start Time (Hours from now) check box and specify the global start time for rescheduling the work orders/operations. This is the first point in time an order or operation can be scheduled.
To specify how you want the scheduling server to organize the orders, select one or more of the remaining check boxes:

Select Allow Reassignment if you want the scheduling server to allow work order operations to change resources already allocated to it.

Select As Late As Possible if you want the scheduling server to place the work orders as close as possible to their required date, i.e., the date in the Latest Completion field of the work order or work order structure.

Select Include Released Orders if you want the scheduling server to reschedule work orders that has been released but not yet started.

Select Compress Downstream from Bottleneck if you want the scheduling server to try to keep work order operations of any given work order as close as possible to the bottleneck resource.

Select Refresh Materials if you want the system to update the scheduling server with the current material availability profile for the site. This is done for parts that has been defined as finite parts.

Click OK.