Production route operation priorities in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain

Production route operation priorities in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain

Wondering when to user primary and secondary operations in a route activity?

Thumb rule is to use this combination for defining machine and labor activities.

So why multiple secondary operations? One could be used for labor, one for tooling. etc.

Primary operation represents the bottleneck resource and is the one whose run time is considered and get's considered in scheduling.

i.e. scheduling considered secondary operations always as 100% parallel.

Though Finite scheduling needs free capacity on both primary and secondary operations.

Here load factor in the operation's 'resource load' can be used if the operator is used part time on the machine thereby reducing the cost of secondary operation and the hours.

In short: Secondary operation does not allow any time to be captured while the times of primary operation is used.

Another important related feature is usage of number of resources from a resource group in a route operation; this is defined in the quantity field in the resource load tab