How You Manage Your Flow Schedules

You can manage and create a flow schedule based on the selected flow manufacturing work definition to make a standard or configured product on a production line at a certain rate.

You can manually schedule and sequence flow schedules for a mix of products to level load a production line and synchronize production activities with daily customer demand.

You can also fulfil back-to-back supply requests from Order Management with flow schedules, via Supply Chain Orchestration. Supply Chain Orchestration sends a flow schedule create request to manufacturing to fulfil back-to-back supply requests. Supply Chain Orchestration also manages any changes that happen either on back-to-back sales order or on the flow schedules and will keep the demand and supply in sync.

Here’s how you can manage the flow schedule tasks:

• View a summary of flow schedules for a production line - Compare planned quantities by item against daily line capacity to identify any overload situation that need to be resolved.

  • The planned quantity on a particular day represents the aggregated quantity of the flow scheduled that are scheduled to be completed on that day.

  • The past due quantity represents the sum of the quantities of the flow schedules for which the completion date occurs in the past.

  • The line capacity represents the number of units that the line is supported to produce on a particular day. It's determined by multiplying the line rate with the available hours on that day. The available hours are obtained from the plant calendar.

  • The available capacity is determined by subtracting the planned quantity and the past due quantity from the line capacity.

  The flow schedule summary also displays the day-wise quantities of items that are planned to be produced on a particular day.

• Create a flow schedule to produce a standard product as single piece flow or based on the minimum transfer quantity as defined on the corresponding work definition.
• Reschedule flow schedules to manage production bottlenecks.
• Resequence flow schedules to change the order of execution.
• Search for and filter flow schedules.
• View the flow schedule details, including the sales order information and requested date.
• Edit, or cancel a flow schedule.
• Print product labels for flow schedules.