About Creating Inflow

Create inflow is one of the functions used to schedule process batches using settings defined in a stage. You can use it to create and schedule the batches required to complete an order or a batch of work-in-progress.

Create inflow and create outflow are similar in appearance and how they work. They contrast in that create inflow supports a backward or pull scheduling strategy, and create outflow supports a forward or push scheduling strategy.

 

You can create:

• Just-in-time and product batches to cover demand for coupled inflow from orders
• Just-in-time process and tank batches to cover demand for coupled inflow for process batches

 

The options that you can select when in the Create group box vary depending on the method that you selected.

 

Process batch constraints are separated from tank batch constraints. You can enter constraints that are based on the type of process. For example, you might want to allow joining on a process batch but not on a tank batch.

When creating a process step, you can set constraints to limit inflow to at most one batch, either tank or process.

For example, surplus is not allowed for process batches. However, due to increments and minimum quantities, you must produce more in the process. In this case, the surplus is automatically pushed to the tank, if surplus is allowed there but not for the process.

The new connection constraints are checked for violations when running these scheduling functions: check schedule, connect batches, split, join, distribute tank batches, and distribute tank flow.