Planned Labor Requirements Generation and Operation Scheduling

Planned labor requirements and generated and planned operations are scheduled in a batch process initiated by a user request.

Planned labor requirements are created from the routing that was defined for the part by the Manufacturing Engineering module.  The Planned Labor Requirements Generation Program uses this routing information (from the Routing File) and creates labor requirements records for manufacturing orders and flow authorizations (on the Planned Labor Requirements File) for primary routings only.

In full generation mode, the planned labor requirements for all manufacturing orders/flow authorizations being used by Capacity Planning are scheduled or rescheduled.  In net change mode, only ones that were flagged by the system are rescheduled (for example, planned orders for a part with routing changes, or newly added flow authorizations).

Operations are backward scheduled.  Backward scheduling means that the due date and time of the last operation are set, and the dates and times of the preceding operations are offset from that point back in time.