APO Issue

[Former Member]

If we use the optimizer for one workcenter in a routing that contains 4 workcenters, how do we get the start and end dates of all of the operations to stay together?  We are optimizing only one value stream with shared work center of another value stream......

[former_member200970]

Hello McElhaney,

As per your screen shot . Let me illustrate what I have understood .

Basically When ever the activities are transferred from ECC(OLTP)  TO APO the sub operations

are also considered as activities in APO . Here we can find two types of relationships between the activities

A. Start-Start  Relation or

B. Finish- Start Relation

If we observe the configure you have a option

Take into Account Resource buffer and Relationships

Here you should maintain Yes .

By this the minimum interval will be assigned against each activity .

Hope this will help you .

If useful .Close the blog with reward points

Regards

Arvind pabba

[Former Member]

If you notice after the assemble, the bend and wash do not pull in as there is a gap.

[RahulHanda]

Hi,

Try overlapping functionality so that you can start as soon as minimum send ahead quantity is available. Go through the below link to understand the same and how to maintain in routing.

Overlapping - Routings (PP-BD-RTG) - SAP Library

Let us know if it resolved your issue.

Regards

Rahul

[former_member244427]

Hello

After your optimiser run consider running Minimize Runtime heuristic in DS for the operation which was optimised. This heuristic the system firms the selected resources, and also firms all operations that lie on these resources at the same time. Using each firmed operation as a starting point, the system reschedules the other operations in such a way that  the smallest possible interval results between the operations of the order.

Regards,

Abhishek

[rupesh_brahmankar3]

Hello Hal,

Depending on the complexity of the scenario you can schedule the operation and close existing gaps by using the scheduling mode "insert and close gaps"  in your DS strategy and run the optimizer and check the results.

Also by using compact scheduling (available as of Release SCM 5.0) reduces the order lead time in the postprocessing step.

Compact Scheduling - Detailed Scheduling Topics - SAP Library

Best Regards,

R.Brahmankar