Weight Factor

The minimum and maximum weights you can define (in kilograms) for each individual process and tank resource are taken into consideration when resources are allocated to batches, when check schedule runs and when you apply various other scheduling functions.

Since batch quantities may be expressed as volumes or using non-standard weight units, quantities will be converted to weights. The weight of a process or tank batch (in kilograms) is defined as the batch quantity (in another unit) multiplied by the weight factor. In the following example, Infor Production Scheduling would check a resource's maximum and minimum weights against 33,000:

 

Batch Quantity	Weight Factor	Batch Weight
30,000 liters	1.1 kg/liter	33,000 kg

You only need to enter a weight factor when there are resource-dependent (that is, product-independent) minimum and maximum weights. You can enter a weight factor for each individual product for both tank and process batches when creating a product.