How You Manage Production Calendars

A production calendar represents the manufacturing calendar associated using the Manage Plant Parameters page or override calendars associated to a specific work center. You can use the Setup and Maintenance work area to define the shifts, workday patterns, and schedules. Oracle Manufacturing only supports shifts that are of type Time and shift detail that are of type Punch or None. If the work center isn’t selected, the production calendar indicates the operational time of a plant. If a work center is selected, then it indicates the operational time based on the override calendars of the work centers. You can define shift exceptions to make modifications to the shift duration. The shifts and shift exceptions displayed in the production calendar are interpreted in the plant time zone as defined in Manage Inventory Organization Parameters.

If a work center isn’t selected, the shift and shift exceptions created are applicable for all the resources of all work centers that don’t have any override calendars. If a work center is selected, the shift and shift exceptions created are applicable for all its resources. However, a specific shift exception can be defined for one for more work center resources to override the Default Availability. This collectively determines the resource availability considered for calculation of the lead times and scheduling of work order dates.

Manage Shift Exceptions

A shift exception is a change in the shift assigned to the manufacturing plant or work centers with override calendars. This exception affects the availability of all shift based work center resources defined within the plant. You can identify shift exceptions and standard shifts on the production calendar. The shift exceptions are also color-coded to for you to analyze with ease.

You use the Manage Production Calendar page from the Work Execution Overview page to perform the following tasks:

Creating a shift exception
Editing a shift exception
Deleting a shift exception

Creating a Shift Exception:

You can create a shift exception to add a new shift or make changes to an existing shift for a day or a period of time. The start time and end time displayed, or the start time entered on this page is assumed to be in the plant time zone.

The following exception types are supported for an existing shift:

Change shift
Remove shift
Split shift

The following exception type is supported for a nonworking time shift:

Add shift

Editing a Shift Exception:

You can only edit a future shift exception. However, you can edit the end date of a current shift exception.

To edit a shift exception, perform the following steps:

On the Manage Production Calendar page, click the shift exception in the calendar that you want to edit. Then, from the right-click menu or the Actions menu, select Edit Shift Exception.
On the Manage Production Calendar: Edit Shift Exception page, edit the fields that you want to change.
Click the Save and Close button.

Deleting a Shift Exception:

You can only delete a future shift exception. To delete a shift exception, on the Manage Production Calendar page, click the shift exception in the calendar that you want to edit. Then, from the right-click menu or the Actions menu, select Delete Shift Exception.