Associate Override Calendars to a Work Center
Specify one or more calendars with different date ranges within a work center to override the plant-level production calendar and model variations in shifts and resource capacity and availability.
If your work center operates in different shift timings or calendar than the manufacturing calendar specified in Plant Parameters of the manufacturing plant, then you can specify override calendars at the work center level by associating a different calendar for a specific date range effectivity.
All resources belonging to the work center inherits its capacity and operating times from this override calendar. Further you can associate multiple calendars to the work center for different date range effectivity to model production capacity variations due to seasonal demands. The date range effectivity for work center-calendar association will be enforced to be nonoverlapping and contiguous.
You can see the Override Schedule check box on the Edit Work Center page, which isn't selected by default.
To associate override calendars:
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On the Edit Work Center page, select the Override Schedule check box in the General Information section and the Work Center Calendar region displays.
- The application automatically adds an entry for Plant calendar with null start date in this region. The existing resources of the work center are automatically defaulted with resource units.
- Add an override calendar by selecting an override calendar name and specifying a start date. The application automatically adds an end date to the earlier calendar. The existing resources and the shift units are automatically defaulted for the newly added override calendar, and you can optionally update the shift units specific to the override calendar.
You can add multiple override calendars. Also, you can modify, delete an override calendar if the start date is in the future.
If you add a resource in the context of an override calendar, then that resource would be by default assigned only to that calendar and to the plant calendar. The resource shift units will be defaulted with the default shift units, and you can update them.
You can delete only a latest override calendar provided its in the future date.
You can update the start date of the override calendar provided its in the future date.
You can use the Functional Setup Manager (FSM) to export the work center details along with the override schedule indicator and the override calendars. Also, you can import a new work center or update an existing work center with the Override schedule indicator and provide the details of the override calendars and the calendar association start dates.