restricting resources coming into APO

[Former Member]

Hi

We have three work centers, A, B &C, on a production line and we produce multiple materials. However not every resource is a bottle neck in production of every material.

For example

to produce material M1, work center A may be bottleneck, B and C are not

to produce another material M2 work center C may be bottleneck, A and B are not.

We need to create the routing/master recipe with all three work centers but want to send only bottle neck work center A into APO's SNP PPM/PDS for material M1 and only work center C into APO's SNP PPM/PDS for material M2.

Please advise how this could be done.

Thanks.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

K,

It is not clear to me the business requirements for this...unusual...request.  One wonders how you would perform scheduling on these 'non-bottleneck' resources, unless they first existed in APO.  One also wonders how you would manage overloads on bottleneck resources when all capacity consumption info does not exist in APO.

In your example:

Material M1,

Resource A - used in operation 10 - takes 3 days duration, consumes 72 hours of capacity; is the critical bottleneck

Resource B, used in operation 20 - Takes 2 days duration, consumes 48 hours of capacity, but it is not a bottleneck.

Resource C, used in operation 30 - Takes 1 day duration, consumes 24 hours of capacity, but is not a bottleneck.

How do you expect the system to know exactly when the consumption of capacity of Resource A is happening, unless you also know the scheduling of resources B and C?

With respect to M2:

If M1 consumes capacity in Resource C, and M2 also consumes capacity in Resource C, how do you expect that you will be able to maintain an accurate depiction of the TOTAL consumption of Resource C, unless you also include Resource C in M1 PDS?

Best regards,

DB49 

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi DB49

Your points are legitimate that if a resource is shared for multiple materials we want to include that resource in the PDS so that the consumption is accounted for.

My understanding is that we can exclude the resource if it is not used to produce other materials and is not a bottle neck, as this is SNP ( rough cut planning).

This is making me rethink our setups. Thanks a lot.