Graphical loads
Use this inquiry to display workload by period at a single production site in a graphical format.
The results are displayed by period over the course of a specified horizon for the site, a group of work centers, or a single work center. The results represent workload generated when a planned or firm work order is created, or the MRP (Material Requirements Planning) or MPS (Master Production Schedule) calculations are run with load included in the calculations.
Before you use this inquiry, Sage advises that you run the Recalculate loads function (FUNMIWL) if there has been an ad-hoc variation to the capacity of a work center, such as a change to the assigned weekly structure or the default number of resources that are needed for an operation at a work center has changed, or work orders have been rescheduled.
You can use the Loads inquiry and the Load in progress inquiry to view the workload suggestions.
Loads inquiry
Load in progress inquiry
Prerequisites
Refer to documentation Implementation
Screen management
The Graphical loads inquiry contains a single screen into which you enter your selection criteria and a screen that represents the calculated workload in a graphical format.
Entry screen
Use this screen to enter the production resource details and analysis horizon, then select OK.
Selection criteria
| Site (field MFGFCY) |
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Type in or select the work order production site. The default site displayed is associated with your user record but you can edit it. |
Load to process
| field XJAL |
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Indicates if scheduled or not scheduled work orders are included in the calculated workload capacity. Not scheduled workload dates correspond with the start and end dates of the work order. |
| Work order firm (field OWF) |
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Indicates if firm work orders are included in the calculated workload capacity. |
| Work order planned (field OWP) |
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Indicates if planned work orders are included in the calculated workload capacity. |
| Suggested work order (field OWS) |
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Indicates if work order suggestions are included in the calculated workload capacity. |
| Suggestion filter (field MRPFLG) |
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Filters the calculated load for the period from the material requirements planning calculations, the master productions schedule calculations, or both. |
Selections
| Work center group (field WCRSTR) |
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Type in or select a work center group that operates at the selected production site. You need to enter a work center group if you are analyzing workload by work center group or by work center. |
| Work center (field WSTSTR) |
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Type in or select a work center that operates at the selected production site. |
| Work center type (field WSTTYPSTR) |
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Filter for results for machine, labor, or subcontracting work centers at the selected production site. For a single work center type, select the same work type reference in the from/start Work center type and to/end fields. To analyze workload for all work center types, leave as the default value. Subcontracting work centers are managed externally by subcontract suppliers. |
| field WSTTYPEND |
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The last work center type in the range or leave as the default value. |
| Periodicity (field PERCOD) |
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Select the frequency for the analysis horizon. |
| Start date (field STRDAT) |
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The analysis horizon start date. The default is the current date. |
| Number of periods (field PERNBR) |
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The number of periods to include in the analysis horizon. |
Graph Load (hours)
This graph displays total load for the period and total resource capacity for the period for the entered criteria over the course of the workload calculation horizon.
The workload capacity for each period is calculated from the work orders that use the work center, the number of resources, and any capacity variations.
| Load in progress |
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Click a data point on the graph then select Load in progress to view the workload in detail for the period. |
| Load inquiry |
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Click a data point on the graph then select Load inquiry to view the workload for the period. |
Specific actions
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Memo |
Select the Memo action to save your selection criteria in a memo code. |
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Recall |
Select the Recall action to recall previous search criteria saved in a memo code. |
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Delete memo |
Select the Delete memo action to delete a memo code. |
Error messages
The only error messages are the generic ones.
Tables used
Refer to documentation Implementation