Once you have entered your demand, you are ready to generate a schedule.
The Sub Screen allows you to choose between scheduling new jobs only, or to reschedule existing, both.
The SetUp button allows you maximum flexibility to pre-sort the exact order you want for scheduling all activity.
Great Feature! Check Out SetUp before you Schedule.
Since the system assigns capacity and available inventory in the sequence the Jobs (each line item on order is a Job) are scheduled, you can define the your custom, default priority sorting criteria via SetUp.
Great Feature!Scheduling Grid allows for maximum flexibility for viewing Jobs to be scheduled, dates, and quantities. Double Click on editable fields to change flags, quantities, etc. Click on View Orders to edit quantities, dates, add lines, even Change the BOR, assigning unique resource multipliers, etc. Another great, on-the-fly feature.
Resource Manager – DB will sequentially read in each BOR, perform the explosion (quantities, chained lead times, capacity restraints, scheduling flags, MRP and Inventory transactions, etc.) and add to the master schedule.
The actual schedule database, as viewed from View Schedule, provides scheduling information about all Jobs. It is good idea to verify dates, quantities, etc. right here to ensure you have set desired options correctly.
The user can select a particular Job then, click on the sub product and or operations tabs to view details regarding the job schedule. All reports in Resource Manager use the scheduled data.
Rescheduling mostly refers to the fact that something has happened (feedback for actual dates, times, quantities, etc.) and the user would like to auto-adjust the balance. Thus, rescheduling is done in forward order. If a job was initially scheduled as reversed then it is, in effect, “turned around” during rescheduling. ResourceManager will use whatever data has been provided in order to reschedule going forward.
For example, if you have logged an actual START and/or END DATE for any Workcenter or Product, then ResourceManager will use the latest update, in sequence, in order to drive new schedule dates for REMAINING operations. If no actual dates have been logged, then Resource Manager-DB will use the initial START DATE for rescheduling. The user can change this date on-the-fly to further control the rescheduling options.
The user can still “reschedule” using Reverse Scheduling by removing currently scheduled Job and scheduling again.
The Resource Calendar provides a dynamic view of all Workcenter hours, summarized by day, required for active schedule. In addition, the Resource Calendar allows for individual Workcenter calendar edits, graphing, quick view reports, and other valuable load analysis reports.
Red format means fully loaded. Blue is for off days. Pink is for over capacity (over capacity is achieved when jobs are scheduled with full capacity option enabled.)
Resource Manager-DB’s inventory system is designed for running with the LEAST amount of maintenance. Once you define safety stocks, lot sizes, beginning inventory, and locations, the system will generate the required orders to fill demand. Resource Manager-DB DOES NOT require you to ‘receive’ those orders to complete production. It assumes you will more or less follow the schedule and make manual adjustments when planned orders are way off from actual receipts (you can configure your own alarms to notify of this).
There are four tabs on the Inventory Calendar:
This is the amount of “free” inventory that can be assigned to new jobs. It is incremented or decremented automatically during scheduling. Double Click, or F2, on a cell to change the quantity of available inventory.
The totals are incremented when the user receives raw materials from purchase orders, or logs the actual completion of finished goods. The totals are decremented when finished goods are shipped, or raw materials are consumed.
The sum of Available Inventory and Allocated Inventory.
Shows the sum of all inventory activity for a given date. Double click or F2 to view details.
Resource Manager-DB allows maximum
flexibility for Schedule Feedback and Re-Scheduling
capabilities. For example, the user can elect
to:
Perform NO feedback at all. The schedule has been
generated, reports available, and no other inputs (besides the
scheduling of BORs) is required to have a Planned Schedule
system up and running. This is how we recommend the user
begin with the system. Then, after we understand in what
parts of schedule feedback, other adjustments, and rescheduling
would work best for you, these parts can be implemented with
great success.
Feedback any one or more of: quantities, start time and date,
finish time and date, actual hours, employee data, and
more.
Report on actual feedback, compared to planned schedule,
without rescheduling.
Several options for logging actuals: by Workcenter, by Job, by
Product, etc.
When logging actuals to Operations, user can choose standard
cycle times (as set in BOR), average cycle times (calculated
in-process, for current Job), or user entered values for
rescheduling the remaining pieces as close to reality as
possible.
GREAT FEATURE! In addition, the user can reconfigure the
scheduled BOR, changing routings to reflect dynamic changes,
adding-deleting and substitutions, etc.
Import in WIP or other actuals from most any system (including
a simple Excel sheet – see Routing Report).
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