Release Analysis and Actions

Click the Release Schedule button in the schedule view page to view the number of work orders for release and to find the release action that sends the schedule to your manufacturing or maintenance application.

Work Order Metrics

Review these metrics about the work orders you're about to release:

• Work Orders: Number of work orders and planned orders in the schedule.

• Selected for Release: Number of work orders selected for release.

Release and Integration

To release a schedule, click the Release button. The following data in your manufacturing application is updated with released information:

• Work order header start and end times

• Work order operation start and end times

• Work order operation resource assignments

• Work order status changes to Released if the schedule option release status setting is set to Mark work orders as released on the Schedule Options page. If not, the work orders status is retained.

• Firm status for non-firm work orders within the fixed time fence horizon, now marked as firm, provided that the Firm work orders that begin during the fixed time fence period setting was enabled during schedule configuration.

Guidelines to Release a Schedule

Here are some guidelines you must know before you release a schedule:

• If the schedule wasn't refreshed after the previous release, changes to the schedule for some work orders may not be released.
• After each Solve and Repair process, if the start date of a work order falls within the Release Horizon, the work order is automatically selected for Release. Using the Selected for Release switch in the work order table, you can select or deselect individual work orders for release.
• Work orders in Pending Approval status aren't updated in SCM execution.
• Planned orders from Oracle Supply Planning won't be released to SCM Execution.