Calculate the earliest start date automatically

More comfortable long-term planning: automatic calculation of earliest start date

Usually, the fields “Earliest Start Date” on production order, production line, and production order routing line level have to be filled manually.

The “Earliest Start Date” on this level can be calculated and filled automatically. In particular, customers who often have orders whose required due date is relatively far in the future will appreciate this functionality.

The settings for this can be found in the area “Earliest Start Date Calculation” of the VAPS "Setup" dialog. Here you can define which mode of calculation should be used along with the associated custom values.

The settings of the VAPS dialog are taken as default. However, users also have the option to customize settings for individual production orders on the related production order card, which will overwrite the default settings from the dialog.

This allows users to establish a "one size fits all" setting that applies broadly, while still having the flexibility to apply unique settings for specific production orders.

The calculation of the Earliest Start Date will be performed: 

• Whenever a “Refresh Production Order…” is run

• On changing the required due date 

• On changing the custom value (date formula or multiplication factor)  

• On performing a new action “Recalculate Earliest Start Date” on both the production order card and production order list, as well as in the VAPS setup, which the user can activate