Production Scheduling in PeopleSoft Manufacturing

In PeopleSoft Manufacturing, you can maintain the schedule for production using the PeopleSoft Manufacturing scheduling algorithms or PeopleSoft Supply Planning solvers. Although the PeopleSoft Supply Planning solvers use production data from PeopleSoft Manufacturing to create and maintain a production plan, the production plan derives the schedule based on slightly different factors and scheduling algorithms than those used in PeopleSoft Manufacturing. PeopleSoft Manufacturing schedules each production ID or production schedule quantity independently of other production IDs or production schedules. It does not consider demands put on resources by other production when scheduling the individual production ID or production schedule quantity.

However, PeopleSoft Supply Planning can consider resource requirements across multiple production IDs or production schedules. PeopleSoft Supply Planning schedules and reschedules production, so available capacity is not exceeded in any one day.

Although Oracle recommends that you use the PeopleSoft Supply Planning solvers to schedule or optimize production, times occur when you might need to add or change a production ID or production schedule without running it through the solvers. If capacity is a concern in the environment, the actual start and due dates and times that PeopleSoft Manufacturing determines should be used only as a guideline or estimate.

This topic describes the factors that are involved in the scheduling of production using PeopleSoft Manufacturing and PeopleSoft Supply Planning.