Workload leveling (scheduling)For group planning, workload leveling is used to define the number of groups that must be generated for a combination of planning attributes scheduled in parallel. Workload leveling creates multiple groups for one combination of these attributes. For schedule-based workload leveling, the planned start and finish times of the activities are used to distribute the activities across the groups in a group set. Schedule-based workload leveling comprises of:
Note If the start date is not specified, the value in this field is defaulted as zero. If the finish date is not specified, the maximum possible value is considered. The activities without a start date are always scheduled first in a plan and activities without a finish date are scheduled last.
Note If the Respect Earliest Start Time check boxes are selected for service order, work order and planned activities in the Service Planning Parameters (tsspc0100m000) session, an activity can never start before the earliest start time, specified for the activity. The process of schedule based workload leveling is: When the Respect Earliest Start Time check boxes are selected for the service order, the work order and the planned activities in the Service Planning Parameters (tsspc0100m000) session, an activity always starts at the latest finish time of the group to which the activity is added. At the time of adding activity to a group, if the earliest start time of an activity is not considered, no slack occurs. After the activity is added, the process continues for the subsequent activities. When the Respect Earliest Start Time check boxes are not selected for service order, work order and planned activities in the Service Planning Parameters (tsspc0100m000) session, an activity cannot be started before the earliest start time. Effectively, a slack may occur after adding the activity to a group.
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