Optimizer Planning

[parveen_thakur2]

Hello, I have a requirement where, during optimizer planning, business expects to assign vehicle resource based on allocation against a particular truck type.

e.g. - client has an agreement with carrier that on daily basis they (client) need minimum 2, 60 TON truck assigned to their requirements and afterward it can select many 40 TON trucks.

that means, whenever FU's are send to optimizer, it should first try to plan the requirement with 60 TON truck and should not exceed more than 2 trucks in a day.

pls suggest if there is way around to do it in std. way ?

Br.

[GRABLERE · Accepted solution]

Hi Parveen,

have you checked the usage of the "Number of Individual Multi Resource" field in the resource mater. Here you could limit the number of resources which should be available for your VSR run. If the cost for this kind of resource are low it should always use those 2 before falling back to the standard 40TO for example.

What is important your VSR runs should then match your allocation period for example if daily allocation you should have 1 VSR run for the day. If you have one for the morning and one for the afternoon this might lead to using the 2 resources twice. If your allocation is really dynamic and maintained by the business user and therefore not feasible to have it maintained in master data above. You might want to look in VSR pre-processing BADI where you could dynamically either set this indicator or multiply the resources according to the allocation.

Regards,
Emanuel

[parveen_thakur2]

Hello Emanuel, Thanks for looking into this but as you mentioned this will work only during 1 VSR run. In real business, we can have many many VSR run per day and hence I don't think if this approach will work.

Apart from it, the same vehicle resource has to be used for different Source and destination location combination and allocation toward carrier's also varies, that means number of maximum truck per day varies.

I will definitely look into the BADI suggested by you.

Br.

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