The scheduling process is the third step in the production life cycle. You can run scheduling after the production order has been created and estimated.
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Production dates and other information critical to the production process are established at this stage. The role of the scheduling system is to plan the actual production process in such a way that each operation in the production route is assigned a starting and ending date and time, and that the materials needed for production are available when the operation starts. Running scheduling raises the production status to .
There are two types of scheduling:
For more information about the overall production cycle, refer to About the production process.
Similarities
and differences between scheduling types
The two scheduling types can be run independently of one another any number of times. Generally, however, operations scheduling is used for long-term scheduling and job scheduling is used for short-term scheduling. In addition, both scheduling types allow you to schedule multiple productions in order of their priority.
Scheduling types differ from one another in terms of detail. Operations scheduling is limited to scheduling by date (while calculating the duration of the individual operation), and job scheduling calculates the starting and ending times of individual operations. In addition, there is a significant difference in the way that operations are planned and in how scheduling is carried out in work center groups. Job scheduling splits the different operations up into jobs, which are planned in detail for each of the work centers. Operations scheduling does not split up operations in the production route in this way. For more information about production routes, refer to Production route (form).
