Visualize and Analyze the Impact of Flow Schedules from Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing
Flow schedules in Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing impact material requirements and production activities on the shop floor. With this functionality, you can visualize the flow schedules and understand their impact on component requirements in upstream and downstream manufacturing.
In the Scope section of the Schedule Options page, specify whether to include flow schedules from Oracle SCM Work Execution by selecting the option Include flow schedules. If you enable this setting, then production scheduling includes the flow schedules that meet the scope criteria such as item categories and schedule horizon and their associated production lines. Planned orders from Supply Planning that run on production lines aren’t included in the production schedule.
New Schedule Option: Include Flow Schedules
Production Scheduling sequences the flow schedules by their completion dates and build sequence numbers from SCM Execution. Flow schedules that exceed a day’s production line capacity are pushed to the next day. For the production line availability, the respective organization calendar is used. When releasing a production schedule back to SCM Execution, then only those flow schedules that are in open status in SCM Execution at the time of schedule release are updated with new completion dates and build sequence numbers.
In the Gantt chart the flow schedules are shown as flow schedule groups, not as individual flow schedules. The grouping depends on schedule view setting Flow Schedule Aggregation in Hours, maintained in schedule options. The last operation of flow work definitions, that indicate the expected completion of a flow schedule, are included in flow schedule groups. Individual flow schedules that end within the same number of hours are merged and displayed as an aggregate taskbar.
New Option in Schedule View Settings
You can see the flow schedules and their details in the Flow Schedules table below the Gantt chart, sorted in ascending order by end time and scheduled build sequence number. The start time of a flow schedule is calculated based on the takt time and number of operations on the production line, as maintained in SCM Execution, along with the organization’s calendar. The exact usage durations of operation-resource sequences of the associate flow work definition aren’t considered.
Selecting a Flow Schedule in the Table.
Selecting one or more rows in the Flow Schedules table highlights the corresponding flow schedule groups in the Gantt chart, and selecting a flow schedule group in the Gantt chart selects the contained flow schedules in the table, where relevant details of the flow schedules can be seen.
When Show Pegging Links in the Gantt toolbar is active, then pegging for individual flow schedules is visualized to and from the flow schedule group that contains the respective flow schedules. Selecting an upstream component work order in the Gantt chart will show pegging links to all the flow schedule groups that contain flow schedule that are pegged to that upstream work order. Pegging calculations are based on the operation-material sequences defined in the work definitions underlying the flow schedules.
Steps to Enable
Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.
Offering: Supply Chain Planning
Tips And Considerations
If you want to use the Visualize and Analyze the Impact of Flow Schedules from Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Production Scheduling. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Key Resources
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Access Requirements
Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
- Edit Production Schedule (MSC_EDIT_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_PRIV)
This privilege was available prior to this update.