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
- In the Site field, choose the site for which to reschedule operations. Use
List
to select from available sites.
- 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.
- Select the Set Scheduling Start Time
(Hrs from now)
check box, then specify the global start time for rescheduling the operations.
- 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.
- Click
OK.