Scheduling Feed Steps#

Although scheduling may focus on giving a plan for a certain set of productive Areas, the Flow for a certain Product may cross other Areas or Facilities which feed the productive Areas with Material, such as a Warehouse or an Outsourcer: although the work in this facilities will not be scheduled as occurs in the productive Area, it may be necessary to consider the lead associated with those operations.

This can be achieved by using the scheduling Feed Steps functionality, specified in the Schedule. The system will look for Materials in these Steps, in addition to the ones already included in the Schedule Universe (Area associated with Schedule, Material in a Flow with Steps marked as Include in Schedule). To define a feed step, it is necessary to input both the Step and the Facility. These Steps must have Include in Schedule marked as true, must not belong to any Area associated with the Schedule, must belong to an Area of the Facility specified in the Feed Step, and the combination Schedule, Step and Facility must be unique.

For more information, see Manage Feed Steps.