Set up working time templates
The first step in the process of setting up resources and calendars for use in the Production control module is to set up the working time templates. You can define working time templates on the Working time templates page by selecting Organization administration > Setup > Calendars > Working time templates.
You can use this page to set up templates that reflect normal working times in your company. Normal working times can be a 24-hour production sequence in which the resources are machines or a work week of 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM for the Purchasing department, where the resources are individual employees.
The templates help you create and manage working time calendars for your resources. Working time calendars use the work times that you define in this template.
For example, one period might equal the time that the work day officially begins to the lunch break, while another period might be the time from the end of lunch to the official end of the work day. The system completes this period for each day that the legal entity is in operation. Then, it copies the scheduled hours to the Working time calendar.
You can specify the normal or most-used hours of operation. Use the From field to specify the time that the work period begins and the To field to specify the time that the work period ends. You can also use the Efficiency and Property fields to further define the use of each time period that you set up.
Efficiency
Use the Efficiency field to specify the efficiency percentage to use in scheduling for the period in question, such as:
Scheduling time = Time * 100/Efficiency percentage
For example, if the evening shift operates at an efficiency level of 75 percent (versus the day shift, which operates at 90 percent), you can note this value in the Efficiency field. The system factors the effects of these rates into the available capacity on the resources and throughout the system.
Properties
You can use the Properties field to assign properties to your templates. The system uses properties in the scheduling and structuring of production. You can produce productions that share the same properties simultaneously.
Resources use properties to help optimize production schedules, and you can set up properties on the Properties page. It's useful to set up properties on your calendars for use in setting up properties on resources.
For example, if you assign the property of red to a paint machine on Monday, when you run the schedule, this resource paints items red only on Mondays.
Resource properties aren't required when you set up working time calendars.