Enhancements for Workforce Scheduling in the Production Supervisor Workbench
In update 25B, production supervisors were able to use Oracle Workforce Scheduling, which is a part of Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), to view and manage the schedules and availability of operators at work centers and used the information to assign operators to workstations.
This update includes the following enhancements:
- Workload consolidation at the plant level allows for accurate aggregation of all the worker units required for each work center and resource. This makes it possible to model many work centers as one department, and many resources as one scheduling group. The Workload plan shows the total worker capacity across work center resources for the unique combination of a department and a scheduling group.
- When workforce scheduling is implemented, the operator workbench validates the schedule assignment during check-ins at the workstation.
- When a Resource is linked to a Scheduling Group, you can now automatically view the persons associated with it in the user interface, based on the job tied to each person's assignment.
- When a Work Center is linked to a Department, you can now automatically view the persons associated with it in the user interface, based on the department tied to each person's assignment.
Consolidated Workload for Each Shift
View Persons in Resources page
View Persons in Work Center Resources page
With accurate aggregation of the total workloads and the ability to identify a person in a labor resource transaction, customers can accurately plan for staffing the work centers and track labor usage at a person level.
Here's the demo of these capabilities:
Steps to Enable
Please refer to the 'Steps to Enable' section of the feature, Use Workforce Scheduling in the Production Supervisor Workbench for Operator Assignments.
Tips And Considerations
Please refer to the Tips and Considerations section of the feature, Use Workforce Scheduling in the Production Supervisor Workbench for Operator Assignments.
Key Resources
- Watch the feature demo for Enhancements for Workforce Scheduling.
- Watch the feature demo for Use Workforce Scheduling in the Production Supervisor Workbench for Operator Assignments.
- Refer to Workforce Scheduling documentation.
- Refer to HCM Work Structures documentation.
Access Requirements
Please refer to the documentation related to access requirements for the feature Use Workforce Scheduling in the Production Supervisor Workbench for Operator Assignments. In addition to 25B documentation, you will require these additional privileges to access all the functionality.
You need the following privileges to access the Departments and Scheduling groups in Manufacturing setup pages.
- Use REST Service - Departments List of Values (PER_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_DEPARTMENTS_LOV_PRIV) - Allows the user to call the GET method associated with the Departments LOV REST Service.
- Use REST Service - Jobs List of Values (ORA_PER_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_JOBS_LOV) - Allows the user to call the GET method associated with the Jobs list of values REST Service. This privilege is also available as part of the seeded role Employee (ORA_PER_EMPLOYEE_ABSTRACT)
You need the following data security privileges to access person and department data from HCM.
- Search Person Live Data
- Choose Department Data