Establishing Business Unit Calendars

Use the Work Week Definition page (MG_WORK_WK_DEFN) to define a five-day, one-shift work week.

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Set Up Financials/Supply Chain > Business Unit Related > Manufacturing > Define Production Calendars > Work Week Definition

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Work Week Definition page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Use the Default Prdn Calendar Week page (MG_CAL_DEF_WEEK) to use to facilitate data entry if you are defining a calendar for a calendar code.

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Set Up Financials/Supply Chain > Business Unit Related > Manufacturing > Define Production Calendars > Define Production Week

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Default Prdn Calendar Week page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

When defining a calendar, use this default week to fill each week of a month. This default week should represent a typical production week, including or excluding weekends. Because the system automatically creates the production month using this default week, this page is the preparatory step to defining production months within calendar codes. You can then make changes for individual days within the month on each month's calendar.

For each day in the week, you can assign up to three shifts (Shifts A, B, and C) from among the shifts defined using the Shift Code Definition page. You cannot enter duplicate shifts for the same day, and the shifts that you select for any given day cannot overlap. The shift times must be chronological beginning with the earliest shift listed first and the latest shift listed last. The system does allow shift schedule gaps as long as the shift times remain chronological. The shift times must also be chronological across all days of the week.

If you select the Day Off check box, you are defining the day as a day off; therefore, you cannot define any shift for that day on this page.

However, you can still change each shift or days off for any day of the week when actually defining a monthly calendar.

Once you define the shift codes and default production calendar week for the business units, you can define one or more calendar codes with their associated calendar for each business unit. You can then use these calendar codes within each business unit to set up the calendars for business units, work centers, production resources, and enterprise resources.

You can create calendar codes for an entire year, a partial year, or a few months within the year. You can define a primary production calendar code for a business unit, then create alternate calendar codes to use as exception calendars for work centers and resources.

Keep these in mind when you create calendar codes:

• The first calendar code and associated calendar is automatically set to the business unit's default calendar.

  To use a different calendar as the production calendar, define that calendar code and use the Manufacturing Options page to change the default production calendar.

• You can define only months within alternate calendar codes that are found within the range of the production calendar code.

  For example, for 2003, the primary production calendar code M2 has the months of January and July defined. The alternate calendar code may not have August defined, but February or March may be defined, because they fall within the range of the production calendar code (January through July).

• Alternate calendar codes function as exception calendar codes to the default production calendar code.

  For example, suppose that the production calendar code is defined for the months of January through December and the alternate calendar code is defined for the months of May and July, the system uses the alternate calendar code defined for May and July. The system uses the default dates defined for the production calendar code for all other months.

• You cannot delete a month from the production calendar code if it uses the alternate calendar code.

• If only one month is left on the production calendar code and you delete it, the system deletes the production calendar code from the Manufacturing Options page.

  PeopleSoft Manufacturing then uses the work week definition to schedule production.

• If an alternate calendar code is defined for a work center or resource, you cannot delete every month defined for the calendar code.

Once you have added at least one calendar code, you must assign the calendar code to the appropriate business unit. If alternate calendar codes are defined, you can optionally assign those codes to work centers.

If you're using PeopleSoft Supply Planning, you can optionally assign alternate calendar codes to resources.

Run the Create Calendars process to create a new version of the calendar based on the latest calendar definition if you changed anything relating to the calendar such as:

• Changing a shift code's start or end times.

• Adding another month or year.

• Deleting a month or year.

• Changing a non-manufacturing day to a manufacturing day.

If you have enabled PeopleSoft Workflow, any time that you make a change to the calendar code, the system optionally sends a workflow notification to selected roles that you defined. This Production Calendar Change workflow notifies the role, such as a production control manager, that the calendars originally used for scheduling are not in synch with the changes, additions, or deletions that you made to the calendar code, and that you must create a new run-time version of the calendar.

Use the Calendar Code Definition page (MG_CALENDAR) to define production calendar codes.

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Set Up Financials/Supply Chain > Business Unit Related > Manufacturing > Define Production Calendars > Calendar Code Definition

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Calendar Code Definition page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.