Multi mixed resource

[Former Member]

Hello gurus,

We have a following scenario of multi activity mixed resource.

We have a machine which has two cutting lines as Cutter 1 and Cutter 2. We want to schedule the production orders for the different materials as shown in the picture on those two cutter lines. We use PPDS with PPMs and with block planning so above pic will be one block. I created a single multi mixed resource in APO and assigned dimension-free capacity of two.

The question is how to manage this scenario in PPDS? What master data and/or resource, PPM, heuristics etc are needed to be maintained in order to achieve the above requirement?

Thanks in Advance,

Neha

[Former Member]

How can we schedule two production orders on the same machine in parallel so that both parallel orders will consume the given machine capacity.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi Rupesh,

Thanks for a quick reply. We have a fully functional block planning functionality today. All we want to manage is the production order scenarios shown in the picture above on the multi activity resource.

Thanks.

[rupesh_brahmankar]

Hello,

Block planning is used to create planned orders. Also In Block Planning you can generate the order blocks for the production orders you want to schedule.

The behavior of block planning with the strategy settings is described in note 528189, please go through it.

I have not yet seen multi-activity resources block planning for production order is not supported something like that.

In multi-activity resources you can schedule as many activities on this resource at the same time as long as the total length of the individual blocks.

Best Regards,

R.Brahmankar

[rupesh_brahmankar]

Hello,

In block planning, you define blocks on a resource that have a specific duration and attributes, for example, a duration of 1 week per block on which you manufacture products.

Blocks can be planned in terms of bucket capacity, create Block definitions, assigning allowed characteristic values unique to each block - /SAPAPO/RES01

Amend PPM data to assign Characteristic values to activities - /SAPAPO/SCC03

Heuristics are available to re-schedule the block start/end times according to the load within a block runs the heuristic SAP_CDPBP_02 (Adjust and Reschedule Block Limits)

You can use the following heuristics in block planning for optimizing detailed scheduling: •SAP_CDPBP_01 (Plan blocks)

•SAP_CDPBP_02 (Adjust and plan block limits)

•SAP_CDPBP_03 (Enhanced block maintenance)

Please refer useful SAP help document on it,

Block Planning Without Configuration and wiki document on it,

Scenario - Block Planning with PDS

Best Regards,

R.Brahmankar