Gantt Chart
Use the Gantt Chart to view orders and resource requirement durations on a timeline along with the calculated attributes. You can also interactively modify the planned dates of a supply or resource requirement from the Gantt Chart.
You can only open the Gantt Chart in context by drilling to it from another table. Also, the Gantt chart always opens in a different pane than the pane from which you drilled from. For example, if you're using a single pane layout and open the Gantt Chart from the Supplies and Demands table, the page layout switches to a double pane (top and bottom) layout. In this situation, the Gantt chart opens in the bottom pane.
How You Drill to the Gantt Chart
You can only open the Gantt Chart in context by drilling to it from another table. Here are the tables from which you can drill to the Gantt Chart.
Drill to Context |
What is Displayed in the Gantt Chart |
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Supplies and Demands |
Supply orders |
Resource Requirements |
Resource requirements |
Cells corresponding to these measures in the Material Plan, Build Plan, or a user-defined table:
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Supply orders |
Cells corresponding to the Resource Requirements measure in the Resource Plan, Build Plan, or a user-defined table. |
Resource requirements |
Drill From the Gantt Chart to Other Tables
From the Gantt Chart, here are the tables that you can drill to and what the tables display.
Drill From |
Drill to Table |
What the Table Displays |
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Supply bar |
Supplies and Demands |
Supply order details |
Supply bar |
Material Plan |
Material plan for the item-organization |
Supply bar |
Items |
Item corresponding to the supply |
Supply bar |
Item Structure |
Item structure corresponding to the item of supply |
Supply bar |
Routings |
Routing of the item of the supply |
Supply bar |
Suppliers |
Suppliers for the item corresponding to the supply |
Resource Requirement bar |
Resources |
Resource corresponding to the resource requirement |
Resource Requirement bar |
Resource Availability |
Resource availability of the resource |
Resource Requirement bar |
Resource Plan |
Resource plan for the resource corresponding to the resource requirement |
Resource Requirement bar |
Resource Requirements |
Resource requirement details |
List of Order Attributes You Can Display
You can display these order attributes in the left pane of your Gantt Chart:
Order Attribute |
Automatically Displayed |
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Item |
Yes |
Organization |
Yes |
Order Number |
Yes |
Order Quantity |
Yes |
Order Type |
Yes |
Supplier |
No |
Supplier Site |
No |
Source Organization |
No |
Ship Method |
No |
Work Definition |
No |
Item Structure |
No |
Supply Bar and Resource Requirements Bar
Let's discuss the characteristics of the supply bar and the resource requirement bar in your Gantt Chart.
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Supply bars span from the suggested start date to the suggested due date of the supply. If the suggested start and suggest due dates are the same, the supply bar appears as a thin line.
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Resource requirement bars span from the bucket start date of the planning time bucket that contains the start date of the resource requirements to the bucket end date of the planning time bucket that contains the end date of the resource requirement.
Show Diagnostics
You can select from the Show Diagnostics drop-down list which diagnostic attributes to display for orders and resource requirements. These are the diagnostic attributes that you can display in your Gantt Chart:
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Contributes to Demand Lateness
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Contributes to Overload
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Consumption Start Date
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Need-by Date
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Material Available Date
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Earliest Start Date
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Firm
Gantt Chart Actions
When you work in the Gantt Chart, there are some useful tool for you to use.
Action you can take from the Actions menu or the Gantt Chart toolbar |
Result of the action |
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Move In |
Moves the selected bar in by one planning time bucket. Note:
You can't move a bar from a less granular time bucket, such as week, to a more granular time bucket, such as day. |
Move Out |
Moves the selected bar out by one planning time bucket. |
Zoom In |
Zooms in the time line display. You can't zoom in below the planning time bucket level. |
Zoom Out |
Zooms out the time line display. |
Refresh |
Refreshes the content in the Gantt Chart. |
Moving the Bars in the Gantt Chart
Here are some pointers about moving the bars in the Gantt Chart.
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You can use the Move In and Move Out options in the toolbar or use the drag and drop action. However, you can't move a bar to another row.
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The end date of the supply bar always snaps to the last working day of the planning time bucket that you move the bar to.
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If you move a bar to a non-working day within the daily bucket portion of the plan horizon, you will be asked if you want to move it to the previous working day.
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The time durations of the bars remain the same as you move them across planning time buckets. A replan or recalculate action can change the durations.