Multi-Job Scheduling

Kinetic ERP
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I’m having a hard time with Multi-Job Scheduling.

We are on Cloud, totally in the browser, always up to date.

We organise our projects by having a Top Level job that is demanded by a Sales Order.

Then we add materail lines to this job for the major parts of the project. “Main Lines”

A lot of the materials are made in house, so we have Make Direct parts demanding a 3rd level “ZJobs”.

We have a very labour biased manufacturing methodology, and as such we resource plan outside of Kinetic. we have some custom fields that drive the Production Std hours.

We need to schedule the jobs to get the operations in the right place so that our Material orders at the Main Line level are on time.

This means the ZJobs need to rescheduled when we move a main line of toplevel Job.

The currenty problem:

I have the SO required by date set to the correct date, I schedule the Top Level job (No Multiline selected)

In the Mainline Job, I schedule the job with inherited Required by date, with Multiline ticked and Jobs - Predecessors (and even when I select Successors - not sure which way is which to be fair, but get the same problem).

After it’s scheduled, the Due date has been set back in time to 2 months after the date we actually need it!!! No idea where this date is coming from, it’s not on the SO or the Top Level job.

The only box ticked in the Scheduling is Override Material Constraints.

Questions I have:

Successors - from the Mainline level job, is a successor all the jobs demanded to this job? Or have I got that wrong?

Tracing - with the client, I was sure I was able to trace a log of what the Scheduling engine was doing, is this something in Kinetic on the web?

In the meantime, i’ll be rescheduling 30 odd Z jobs via excel and DMT.

I really hope we don’t lose DMT.

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Use “Jobs – Predecessors” so ZJobs feed into Mainline scheduling. The scheduler then works backward from your SO date through all linked jobs. There’s no live schedule log in the web UI, but you can audit changes or add a BPM for logging. Date shifts are typically caused by mislinked dependencies or material/resource constraints, so please verify those settings first. Manual rescheduling via DMT is a good short term fix.

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You can still access the scheduling logs in Cloud. They are accessible via the Server File Download.

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OK, so it’s all linked jobs from the SO to the Top Level all the way down to the Zjob (we do ZZjobs too, as a 4th level)

Thanks

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Almost as soon as I posted this my colleague showed me that.

The log seemed to be missing the latest runs, but should be enough that I can have a dig through.

Thanks