Direct Planning Industry features a management of time impositions on jobs: earliest start date, latest end date, imposed (locked) job position and manual or automatic alerts to assist the planner.
Direct Planning Industry – Time constraints in job details
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Earliest start date
On every job of the production range, you can enter an earliest start date. For Direct Planning, this is strict constraint; which means that, when the “planning assistance“ is enabled, you are assured that the production order will always be scheduled after that date.
It should be noted that flags “awaiting item receipt” are able to automatically generate a constraint of earliest start date, when you are waiting for such material or such tool at a given date.
Latest end date
On every job of the production range, you can enter a latest end date. For Direct Planning, this is a “target” constraint; which means that the “planning assistance“ will help you avoid delays.
For that, the schedule generates visual alerts on jobs, when:
- Job is likely to be late: which means that it ends less than X hours before its latest end date.
- Job is late: which means that it ends more than Y hours after its latest end date (tolerance on delay).
Lock the position of a job
Direct Planning Industry also gives the opportunity to lock the position of a job. The planning assistance and its left-adjusting (as soon as possible) or right-adjusting (as late as possible) modes give you the opportunity to automatically place jobs, taking time and job precedence constraints into account.
Locking a jobs assures you that this job will never be moved, nor automatically by the planning assistance, nor manually upon a drag and drop performed by the planner.
This may be useful, for instance, when a customer comes to attend the production on a given date. Since an appointment has been made, you are sure the job won’t be scheduled to another date.
Manual alerts
Further to the automatic alerts mentioned above, you can enter a manual alert on each job. A memo area lets you tell more about this alert.