Reschedule Operations Automatically

Explanation

Use this activity to reschedule all operations for a site.

Prerequisites

This activity requires that scheduled operations exist. It also requires a site connected to a Scheduling Server.

System Effects

As a result of this activity the system reschedules any operations that fall within your specified criteria.

When a work center resource, labor class person or a tool instance is blocked for use, operations already scheduled in the specific resource get unassigned and are not rescheduled in the blocked resource if Allow Reassignment option is selected while scheduling. If the Allow Reassignment option is cleared, operations that are already reserved on blocked resources can be rescheduled in the same resource.

Window

Schedule Operations

Related Window Descriptions

Schedule Operations

Procedure

1. In the Site field, choose the site for which to reschedule operations. Use List to select from available sites.
2. In the Dispatch Rule list, choose a dispatch rule to specify how the scheduling logic should sort orders before scheduling begins. If you do not want to use a dispatch rule, use the default value None.
3. Select the Set Scheduling Start Time (Hrs from now) check box, then specify the global start time for rescheduling the operations.
4. To specify how you want the Scheduling Server to organize the orders, select one or more of the remaining check boxes:
   • Select Reassign Resources if you want the Scheduling Server to allow operations to change resources.
   • Select As Late as Possible if you want the Scheduling Server to place the orders as close as possible to their given need date.
   • Select Include Released Orders if you want the Scheduling Server to reschedule shop orders with the status Released as well as those with the status Planned.
   • Select Compress Downstream from Bottleneck if you want the Scheduling Server to try to keep the operations of any given shop 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.
   • Select Refresh Project Information if you want the system to update the Scheduling Server with project and project activity related information for the site. 
5. Click OK.