Understanding the Scheduling of Items on a Production Line
Use the Line Scheduling Workbench (P3153) to schedule rates and work orders for the family of items that is produced on a production line. This program displays information in daily areas about both firmed and planned rates and work orders. After you manually revise the scheduled quantities, you can firm the schedule. Use start and through dates to display the workdays for the production line within the date range. When you create a rate or work order, or the system creates a rate through planning, the system spreads the quantities evenly throughout the workdays, within the date range specified in the line and item relationship for the item. From the workbench, you can access these forms:
Alternate Line Selection (W3155WC).
Split Lines Window (W3154WA).
Parts Availability Multi Level Indented (W30200C).
Work with Detail Messages (W3411D).
You use the Split Lines form to move scheduled quantities from one line or shift to another. You can use any of these methods:
Splitting production between two lines, which might create a schedule on the new line.
Consolidating production from two lines to one line.
Transferring production from one line to another.
Splitting production among shifts on the same or different lines.
Use Alternate Line Selection to review all lines for which line and item relationships exist with the item.