Rotating Shift Issue.

[#1]

Hello Everyone,

Hope you all are doing great this afternoon.

I need help on the below issue.

My client has total 5 shifts 1 General Shift and 4 rotating shifts (A, B, C & D). I am in dilemma how to configure the 4 rotating shifts in the system. Here 3 shifts works in 24 and 4th shift will be OFF. Example if A works in first shift B works in 2nd shift and C works in 3rd shift and D will be off. Same like that When B works in first shift C works in 2nd shift and D works in 3rd shift and A will be OFF. I have maintained the Shift details below. Please let me know how to create Daily Work Schedule, Period Word Schedule and how to generate Work Schedule Rule.

As these are rotating shift what timings I need to maintain in Daily Work Schedule.

Shift Timings
1st Week	6:00AM- 14:00PM	14:00PM-22:00PM	22:00PM-6:00AM	Week off
Monday	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D
Tuesday	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D
Wednesday	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A
Thursday	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A
Friday	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B
Saturday	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B
Sunday	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B
2nd Week	6:00AM- 14:00PM	14:00PM-22:00PM	22:00PM-6:00AM	Week off
Monday	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C
Tuesday	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C
Wednesday	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D
Thursday	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D
Friday	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A
Saturday	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A
Sunday	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A
3rd Week	6:00AM- 14:00PM	14:00PM-22:00PM	22:00PM-6:00AM	Week off
Monday	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B
Tuesday	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B
Wednesday	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C
Thursday	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C
Friday	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D
Saturday	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D
Sunday	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D
4th Week	6:00AM- 14:00PM	14:00PM-22:00PM	22:00PM-6:00AM	Week off
Monday	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A
Tuesday	Shift B	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A
Wednesday	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B
Thursday	Shift C	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B
Friday	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C
Saturday	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C
Sunday	Shift D	Shift A	Shift B	Shift C

Looking forward to hear from you,

Thanks & Regards

Shiva Prasad

[Former Member]

So it would seem that you have 4 Daily Work Schedules :

  NORM   Whatever the hours of the "General Shift"

  DAYS     Day Shift     6:00 to 14:00

  EVES     Evening Shift     14:00 to 22:00

  NIGH     Night Shift     22:00 to 06:00

Look into the SAP Standard for these DWS.

For your "General Shift", look at the Periodic Work Schedules provided by SAP, and define each Shift's PWS accordingly.

[Former Member]

Dear Shiva,

Rotation Shift can be configured as below,

Daily Work Shedule

MNST	6:00AM- 14:00PM
AFST	14:00PM-22:00PM
NGST	22:00PM-6:00AM
GNSF	9:00AM- 18:00PM
WOFF	Weekly Off

Periodic Work Schedule

PWS	Description
SFTA	Shift A
SFTB	Shift B
SFTC	Shift C
SFTD	Shift D
GNST	General

Rotating Shift
PS Grp	PWS	Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07
1	SFTA	001	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	NGST	NGST	NGST
1	SFTA	002	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	WOFF
1	SFTA	003	NGST	NGST	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	MNST
1	SFTA	004	WOFF	WOFF	MNST	MNST	AFST	AFST	AFST
1	SFTB	001	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	WOFF
1	SFTB	002	NGST	NGST	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	MNST
1	SFTB	003	WOFF	WOFF	NGST	NGST	AFST	AFST	AFST
1	SFTB	004	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	NGST	NGST	NGST
1	SFTC	001	NGST	NGST	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	MNST
1	SFTC	002	WOFF	WOFF	NGST	NGST	AFST	AFST	AFST
1	SFTC	003	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	NGST	NGST	NGST
1	SFTC	004	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	WOFF
1	SFTD	001	WOFF	WOFF	NGST	NGST	AFST	AFST	AFST
1	SFTD	002	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	NGST	NGST	NGST
1	SFTD	003	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	WOFF	WOFF	WOFF
1	SFTD	004	NGST	NGST	AFST	AFST	MNST	MNST	MNST
1	GNST	001	GNSF	GNSF	GNSF	GNSF	GNSF	GNSF	WOFF

Work Schedule Rule

Work Schdule Rule	Description	PWS
WSRG	General	GNST
WSRA	Shift A	SFTA
WSRB	Shift B	SFTB
WSRC	Shift C	SFTC
WSRD	Shift D	SFTD

Sincerly

Govardhan Reddy

[maddilety_kanuku]

Hi, imagining,

1) you created two daily work schedules One daily work schedule for regular hours and the second for the OFF (So you need two daily work schedules).

2) You also created 1 period work schedule (only one period work schedule).

3) You create 5 work schedule rules for the combination of each work schedule and period work schedule but with Different Referencing point start date for each Period Work schedule, (this would help you to not to create 5 Period work schedules).

Ultimately, you have to have 5 work schedules rules by creating either way.

Now the point comes, each employee has to shift one work schedule to other work schedule after a week, so do you suggest user to go ahead and change each employee IT0007 record to reflect the right work schedule rule once their shift changes?

Does the work load on the user not increase with this decision? or you are going to suggest to have the IT0007 access to super visors, so that they could do this to their reportees every week., do you have system in place, where the manager can change the work schedule easily and conveniently such like Manager Desk Top, or ESS and MSS etc..

What is the time management status you have in Infotype 7, is the working hours flowing from CATS to R/3.

I am hoping you would consider all these points to derive the design solution.

Warm regards!

-Kanuku

[Former Member]

Thanks for reply, What is the working time should I mention in Daily Work Schedule? If I maintain 6 AM to 14 PM for Shift A and 14 PM to 22 PM for Shift B and 22 PM to 6 AM for the Shift C then what should I maintain for Shift D?????

Please advise.

Regards

Prasad

[Former Member]

Hi Shiva

subsequent to what others mates have  shared,pl refer this ..hope it serves as ref guide.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/805ce631-cb17-2d10-3aa8-96140b650...

no worries

kg

[Former Member]

Hi KG,

This doesn't help full for me.

I have 4 shifts when 3 shifts work then one shift will be off. When I create DWS I have to maintain planned working times.

For Shift A 06:00 AM to 14:00 PM

For Shift B 14:00 PM to 22:00 PM

For Shift C 22:00 PM to 06:00 PM

For Shift D ???????????????????

I hope now you understand my problem.

Looking forward for help.

Thanks & Regards

Prasad

[Former Member]

Hi Shiva

correct so first things first we created 4 DWS to define the shifts employees work A,B,C

D is Off so we flag ZERO_HOURS-no planned working hours.

I suppose now we have define the 3 shifts and off.- V_T550A.u will also define the break and map it in DWS.im sure u must have done it.

moving on to next ones-Period work schedue-V_T551A

PWS - mon -sun isnt it ?so we will have hpothetically 4 different people working in three different shifts A,B,C and one will have Off isnt it ?

so we have 4 differnt PWS say A1,B1,C1,D1.

what is crucial here is the PS and ES grouping,so please ensure u have mapped them properly.

u again will have to have 4 diff WSR -V_T508A.

and i would have not used SCHKZ feature,so that when we use PT01 we can map the correct WSR according to requirement.

hope im making sense here

play around im sure you will crack this one.

no worries

kg

[Former Member]

Hey Karthick,

Thanks for your response. I have solved this issue, I have configured but have not tested.

By the way do you have any Functional Specifications Templates?

If you have it please do send it to my id [email protected]. I would really appreciate if you could do that.

Thanks

Prasad

[Former Member]

Hi shiva,

for this you have to create 5 work schdule rules for IT0007.

WSR -01 General shift

WSR -02  Rotating A

WSR -03  Rotating B

WSR -04  Rotating C

WSR -05  Rotating D

Now you have to create the work schedule rule as i mentioned above. for that,first you have to create daily workschdule, period work schdule and workschdule rule finaly you have to generate work schdule.

According to your table, i understood there are 5 deferent timing like Shift A ,B,C , D as well as Off day.

So you have to create daily work schdule for this shift A B C D.and create your period workschdule according to your requirement.(this is very important bcos here only we hv to create our rotaing pattern)

then later create the workschdule rule . this the rule which will appear in IT0007.

finlay generate your workschdule .

you can find this SPRO IMG path to create the --Time management---workschdule..

here you can find all notes which is related to workschdule rule.

Regards,

Dinesh

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Hi ,

You can manage the above scenario in PWS.

Create 2 work schdules , one for DWS-1 and DWS-off.

Thanks

PSP

[Former Member]

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