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Transport Time in Production Scheduling

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Posted on by Jefry Then 1,982

Hi, 

how do we set transport time between production plant? Currently we are using single site for different production sites. My problem is, if my route capabilities appoint resource at different plant after previous operation, we will need transport time. So it is depend from resource location and previous resource used. If previous operation use resource which located at the same location with next operation, no transport time is needed. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Jefry

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  • Fredrik Sætre Profile Picture
    Fredrik Sætre 12,644 on at
    RE: Transport Time in Production Scheduling

    Either you would have to crack a whole lot of standard objects or "simply" use semi finished goods, warehouse transfer orders and transport times for these. Master planning should help you make this work. You also get a lot of nice transportation tracking...

    It also depend on how large the variations are and could you use multiple routes with different times activated?

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    RE: Transport Time in Production Scheduling

    Hi Jefry,

    I haven't tried what you are looking for, but I suspect you would need to setup different production routes for the item - a default route within the same site/warehouse, and an alternate route for if manufacturing is completed at the remote site/warehouse.  You could then control the "transportation time" by adjusting the transit time within the route setup...

    Just some initial thoughts for you to try.

    Aaron

  • Jefry Then Profile Picture
    Jefry Then 1,982 on at
    RE: Transport Time in Production Scheduling

    Hi Fredrik,

    Thanks for your answer.

    If we use transfer order for transport, how do we plan its time in master scheduling? I have not received data from our customer but that's how they flow works. But just for estimation, our customer have around 100 machines in all sites.

    Hi Aaron,

    Thanks for your reply. I use capabilities for my resource requirment. So I think I can't put queue before/after or transit time in route, because in our customer scenario, it is possible in 1 route, suppose there are 2 operations in it, and based on capabilities and capacity, first operation is operated in first site and second operation at second site. The goal our customer need is, they want this "transport time" visible after we run master scheduling. If those 2 operations located at the same site, they don't need transportation time. Does standard AX possible to handle this problem?

  • Fredrik Sætre Profile Picture
    Fredrik Sætre 12,644 on at
    RE: Transport Time in Production Scheduling

    Hello again. You're right, you have to have a pretty set logistical flow to make that work as well. I guessing you want it to be very dynamic.

    I think you've found a missing feature here and probably need some heavy duty amendments here.

    The issue is that you would have to find the transit time from machine A to Machine B at the time of executing the planning. You would have to run multiple optimization processes to make this complex algorithm would work... Because of you get a free resource at first glance, the time of transit might favour another machine to be selected.

    I think you need to maybe make some very detailed plans for this to work.

  • Jefry Then Profile Picture
    Jefry Then 1,982 on at
    RE: Transport Time in Production Scheduling

    Hi Fredrik. You're right, it may lead into further complexity because, as what you said, when planning estimate transport time, they also have to calculate the possibility if they plan to queue resource (without transport) might be preferable because will have shorter time. But maybe optimization of resources capacity (plus transport time) already be a help for our customer. So far I still can't find workable workaround. Thanks anyway, that's a very good point for me to consider.

  • Fredrik Sætre Profile Picture
    Fredrik Sætre 12,644 on at
    RE: Transport Time in Production Scheduling

    Maybe a third party planning engine can be integrated to solve this?
    It has to perform the task of planning a certain time of an operation based on the resource selected on a previous task AND the next. Not magic, but a pretty complex task to perform when you consider that the next task has to be optimized. It would have to run through an optimization to figure that out I would assume.

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