Work Center Calendars

For each work center, you can create a need-specific work calendar that represents the times the center is available to process work orders. Specified work center calendars enable you to manufacture products efficiently within time and resource constraints. For example, your work centers operate as follows:

Work Center 1: Operates five days a week for eight hours
Work Center 2: Operates four days a week for ten hours

Your production manager can set up a work calendar for each work center that specifies the hours available for each. Based on this work center calendar information, you have real-time visibility into total scheduling capacity. You also have intelligent manufacturing routing that calculates the processing time.

After you create the work calendar, specify that calendar on the work center record. Then, NetSuite can use the designated work calendar to determine the time when resources should be scheduled for associated manufacturing operation tasks.

Based on the requirement date, the supply planning engine determines the start date of a planned order. The supply planning engine uses backward scheduling, based on the work calendar assigned. The supply planning engine also considers work center calendars for forward scheduling when creating work orders.

To use work center calendars, complete the following steps:

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