1. Using Production Scheduling
  2. Production Scheduling Tasks and Business Flows

Production Scheduling Tasks and Business Flows

To carry out production scheduling tasks, you must have production scheduler privileges by your enterprise. This topic is an overview of the tasks and the business flows in the Production Scheduling work area.

Locate the Work Area

Navigate to the Supply Chain Planning cluster and click Production Scheduling.

Know Your Workflow

Here's the sequence of production scheduling activities:

  1. Add and set up scheduling organizations.

  2. Create a schedule.

  3. Refresh, solve, review, and adjust the schedule.

  4. Release the schedule.

Begin Your Business Tasks

From the Production Schedules page, you can manage production schedules and scheduling organizations.

  • Before creating a schedule for an organization, this organization must be defined as a scheduling organization. Click the Manage Scheduling Organizations button to add, manage, and delete scheduling organizations. To know more, refer to the Organization Setup chapter.

  • To create a schedule, click Create on the Production Schedules page to define and configure your schedule. To know more, refer to the Schedule Setup chapter.

  • To work with an existing schedule, use the actions menu for that schedule. To know more, refer to the Schedule Processes chapter.

Manage Data Access for a User

Only users with data access to a specific organization can access schedules and schedule data for the corresponding organization. You can configure the data access using the Manage Data Access task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. Here are some key points to consider when you assign data access to a user.
  • You can assign data access to a user via any role, not just the Production Scheduler role.
  • If you are assigning data access to a user of manufacturing organization, a security context has to be defined for both inventory organization and manufacturing plant of the manufacturing organization.
  • If you are assigning data access to a user of maintenance organization, a security context has to be defined for only the inventory organization of the maintenance organization.