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pdfexport: true
alias: tutorials-ss-jobs
tags:
- scheduling
description: "Schedule Scenario Jobs define material processing steps, tracking planned and actual execution details"
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# Jobs

Schedule Scenario Jobs form the basic blocks of the scheduling functionality, representing the processing of a Material at Step in its Flow.

## Schedule Scenario Job

A Schedule Scenario Job is a planning entity that represents the future execution of a particular Material. As such, it contains planning information such as:

* Resource
* Planned Quantity
* Planned Start Date
* Planned End Date
* Planned Setup Time
* Planned Duration

In addition to the planning properties, other properties are also present in the Schedule Scenario and are used to record the execution of the Job:

* Actual Start Time
* Actual End Time
* Actual Duration

This is the graphical representation of a typical Schedule Scenario Job in a Schedule Scenario.

![Job][job]

This graphical representation gives out several details about the Schedule Scenario Job. The start of the job corresponds to the Planned Start Date, while the end corresponds to the Planned End Date. The entire span of the job corresponds to the Planned Duration, with the greyed portion corresponding to the Planned Setup Time and the lighter portion to the Planned Process Time.

Besides this general information, a Schedule Scenario Job also gives a graphical indication to the type of Material it refers:

| Appearance | Visualization | Description |
|------------|-------|------------|-------|
|![Real Material][Real Material] | Real | This Job refers to an actual Material, that is, to WIP that already exists in the Production Line. |
|![Virtual Material][Virtual Material] | Virtual  (for planning mode only) | This job refers to a virtual Material not yet existing in the production line, obtained by simulating the Production Orders' breakdown into real Materials. |

Table: Graphical representation of the Material in a Schedule Scenario Job

Since the Schedule Scenario Job tracks the execution of the Steps for the associated Material, its graphical representation in the Schedule changes as the execution carries on, as can be seen in the next table.

| Appearance | State | Conditions | Start | End | Length |
|------------|-------|------------|-------|-----|--------|
|![Scheduled Job][ScheduledJob] | Scheduled | Scenario has been released, Material has not yet arrived at Step | Planned Start Date | Planned End Date | Planned Duration |
|![Ready Job][ReadyJob] | Ready | Scenario has been released, Material has arrived at Step | Planned Start Date | Planned End Date | Planned Duration |
|![Setup Complete for Job][SetupCompleteJob] | Setup Complete | Scenario has been released, Material has been setup for process at a Resource | Planned Start Date | Planned End Date | Planned Duration |
|![InProgress Job][InProgressJob] | InProgress | Material has been tracked-in at Step | Actual Start Date | Actual Start Date + Planned Duration | Planned Duration |
|![Completed Job][CompletedJob] | Completed | Material has been tracked-out from Step | Actual Start Date | Actual End Date | Actual Duration |

Table: Graphical representation of job execution tracking

[ScheduledJob]: ../../../images/scheduledJob.png
[ReadyJob]: ../../../images/readyJob.png
[InProgressJob]: ../../../images/inProgressJob.png
[CompletedJob]: ../../../images/completedJob.png
[Real Material]: ../../../images/realMaterial.png
[Virtual Material]: ../../../images/virtualMaterial.png
[job]: ../../../images/Job.png
[SetupCompleteJob]: ../../../images/scheduledJobSetupComplete.png