Management asked me how we can prove that we can run a job a year in the future. I am still working on setting up scheduling in our system. I had been working in a 30 day time frame. I set my finite horizon in Site Maintenance to 30 days. I also set my resource group finite horizon to 30 days. I set my resources to finite.
If I want to see my schedule out a year, do I just change my site and resource group finite horizons to 365 days or more? I am open to any ideas for proving job capacity this far in the future.
The finite horizon is how far out do you want finite scheduling to run. anything after that would be an infinite schedule.
if you want to see your shops with a finite schedule for a year, then adjust that horizon value. if you just want to drive demand for year with jobs but you dont need a very detailed schedule then you can leave that at 30 and just make sure that MRP runs without a cutoff date (i assume you are running mrp).
To be honest, they don’t care about the details of the individual jobs. They really want to see that next April we have 100 hours on the vertical mills available. Or something to that effect.
I figured that I would have to schedule everything finitely for a year to get a true idea of the load being applied against my capacity. Even if I don’t care about the start/end dates of each operation, the system still has to figure all that out to give me an estimate, right?