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Operation scheduling in a day bucket within SAP Digital Manufacturing Resource Orchestration (REO)

ManoelCosta
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
2 weeks ago
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'Enable Day Bucket Check for Auto Scheduling' flag in SAP Digital Manufacturing for Resource Orchestration (aka REO) allows production supervisors and planners to automatically dispatch operations that are planned for a specific day, and a specific day only, while operations that are planned for that same day but couldn´t fit in that day schedule are not dispatched at all and remain in the worklist.

To enable it:

  • Open Dispatching and Monitoring app

  • Go to Settings → Scheduling tab

  • Turn on Enable day bucket check for Auto Scheduling

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To use it:

  • Scheduling mode must be Find Slot

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  • Use By Heuristics (Scheduling Options) mode and Active Orders only

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How it works

Imagine that you have a bunch of operations planned for the same day, Jan 9th in our example below, waiting to be dispatched:

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To a bunch of available Resources:

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If 'Enable Day Bucket Check for Auto Scheduling' is 'ON':

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All operations that can fit in their initial planned date of 9th of Jan will be dispatched to all the available resources, while the operations that couldn´t fit in that day schedule are not dispatched at all and remain in the worklist to be manually dispatched later.

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If 'Enable Day Bucket Check for Auto Scheduling' is 'OFF':

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All operations that can fit in their initial planned date of 9th of Jan will be dispatched to all the available resources, and the remaining operations that couldn´t fit in that day schedule are dispatched to the next day onwards, no operations are left undispatched.

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The Key Concept: The Day Is a Hard Boundary

When Day Bucket is enabled, the system treats the day as a hard limit.

It will not overflow.
It will not cheat.
It will not push work just because there is backlog.

If the day is full, it is full.

Real Example

If you have the following scenario:

  • Each operation takes 4 hours
  • You have 10 orders planned on the same day
  • The resource has 24 hours available

What happens?

24 hours / 4 hours per operation = 6 operations

So:

  • 6 operations will be dispatched
  • 4 operations will NOT be dispatched
  • Those 4 will stay in the worklist

Why? Because the day bucket is full. The 24-hour window is respected.

What If Day Bucket Is Disabled?

If Day Bucket is disabled:

  • The system is allowed to spill over
  • The remaining operations can be scheduled on the next day

So in the same example:

  • 6 operations go to day 1
  • The remaining 4 are automatically pushed to day 2

How I Like to Explain It Simply

Day Bucket = ON: “Today is today. Tomorrow is tomorrow. Do not mix.”

Day Bucket = OFF: “Do your best today. Whatever does not fit, we push forward.”

 

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Thanks,
Manoel Costa