Availability types

The availability type defines a workweek. For each of the seven workday, it specifies the start and end times of the working hours for each day.

Example

A company has the following standard working times:

  • Production runs from 8.00 to 18.00.
  • Warehouses are open from 8.00 to 16.00.
  • The service department is active from 9.00 to 18.00.

You can model this situation with a single calendar code (COMP) for which you define three availability types: PRD (Production), WHS (Warehouse), and SRV (Service).

The resulting calendars are:

  • COMP/PRD
  • COMP/WHS
  • COMP/SRV
Example

A company has 3 departments: Production, Warehouses, and Service.

All three have the same working hours (08:00 - 17:00), but the holidays vary per department.

You can model this situation with a single availability type (STDHRS) and three different calendar codes (PRD, WRH and SRV)

The resulting calendars are:

  • PRD/STDHRS
  • WRH/STDHRS
  • SRV/STDHRS

A variation to this would be defining a calendar code for the company (COMP), containing all the working days and holidays that are common to the departments. The PRD, WRH and SRV calendars would have the COMP calendar as the parent calendar, but contain only the department specific holidays.

Note
  • For more information on the use of availability types in other packages, refer to Using calendars.
  • External scheduling packages cannot use multiple availability types. If you integrate with an external scheduling package, you must define a separate calendar for each activity. For more information, refer to Calendar integration with external scheduling packages

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