Planning Optimization support for resource scheduling with finite capacity
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Jun 1, 2022 |
Sep 1, 2022 |
Business value
Production planners can use Planning Optimization to ensure that resources are not overbooked during master planning and that resource constraints trigger relevant delays in the supply chain.
Feature details
Planning Optimization now supports production scheduling that respects finite resource capacity. Finite scheduling enables manufacturers to detect expected future delays caused by limited resource capacity. This helps you to automatically update material requirements accordingly and, when relevant, notify impacted customers. The feature enables you to do the following while using Planning Optimization:
- Avoid overbooking resources.
- Monitor bottleneck resources in production, where it's difficult or impossible to increase capacity with short notice.
- When a selected timeslot is fully booked, postpone jobs until the next free timeslot.
- Calculate delays caused by resource constraints.
- Plan the production of lower-level components according to resource constraints. For example, react to situations where the production of a subcomponent is postponed because of capacity constraints later in the supply chain.
- Update material purchase and transfer orders to reflect delays from other parts of the production, thereby ensuring optimized material flow and minimized inventory levels.
- Selectively perform finite capacity scheduling on bottleneck resources.
- Create a setup where only defined bottleneck resources are limited by finite scheduling.
- Schedule non-bottleneck resources with infinite capacity to detect when, for example, an additional shift is needed to cover the demand.
Planning Optimization benefits
With Planning Optimization, companies can benefit from:
- Significantly improved performance and scalability with in-memory processing.
- Minimized system impact on other processes made possible by running master planning as a separate service.
- Near real-time insights into requirement changes, achieved by running master planning several times daily during office hours.
Learn more about Planning Optimization
For more information about the Planning Optimization migration process and answers to frequently asked questions, see Migration to Planning Optimization for master planning.
Geographic areas
This feature will be released into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:
- United States
- Europe
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Canada