Maintaining Production Dates and Actual Dates

All production IDs and production schedules maintain production date and shift information as well as actual date and time information.

Production date and shift information is defined as the actual working day and shift (or manufacturing day and shift) during which component and production scheduling can be done. You define production dates and shifts through the production calendar or the work center calendars.

Actual date and time is defined as the actual date and time the production is scheduled to begin or end. In most cases, production dates and actual dates are the same. If you have production shifts that span two days, the actual date for production may be different from the production date. The system determines an actual date by the actual time that a production is scheduled to start or end within the production shift.