Exploring Resource Scheduling (RSH)

1. Select your order operations.
2. Add operations to schedule (newly created or existing schedule)
3. Check utilization of work centers.
4. Schedule operations (automatically) and refine scheduling (manually).
5. Share scheduled operations with reviewer.
6. Check and adapt schedule.
7. Dispatch operations.
8. Freeze schedule.
9. Track operations during execution.
10. Confirm operations.
11. Review schedule attainment.

In the Work Center Utilization app you can analyze the capacity situation for your work centers. Using the utilization chart, you can show utilization based on various attributes - such as Work center, Priority, Order type etc.

You can schedule, change and dispatch order operations and sub-operations. You can also cancel the dispatch.

To level work center utilization, you can change the work center for order operations and sub-operations. In addition, you can change the start date and time for order operations.

The Maintenance Scheduling Board app visualizes graphically the maintenance orders, order operations, and sub-operations in your work centers.

In the table area, maintenance orders, order operations, and sub-operations are shown in their hierarchical structure, with the order at the top level and the operations and sub-operations at the second level.

A Gantt chart shows orders, operations, and sub-operations on a timeline. This allows you to quickly identify scheduling conflicts.

Important features are:

• Dispatch / Cancel Dispatch of order operations
• Fine-tune operation scheduling
• Assign People

A schedule is a worklist that includes the maintenance order operations to be completed in a specific period. It contains a simulation that is only visible to the person who created it and to people with whom the schedule was shared.

As a planner, you can make changes to a schedule until you or somebody else freezes it. Any schedules that have not been frozen before its start date are automatically deleted.

Freezing a schedule is a prerequisite for schedule tracking and needs to be activated in Customizing (Private Cloud and On Premise).

The schedule goes through various stages represented by the schedule status: Scoping, Refinement, Frozen, Execution and Closed.

You can share a schedule with others for review.

In general, the terms revision and maintenance event both refer to a period of time during which several maintenance activities need to be planned and executed together on one or more technical objects. In some cases, it may be necessary to temporarily shut down a technical object so that service or maintenance work can be performed.

To facilitate the planning of the maintenance activities, you can create an object called a revision or maintenance event and, for example, assign maintenance orders to it.

• The term Revision is used if you create and manage this object in SAP GUI.

  Via transactions IWR1 (standard), OIOB (simplified) or WPS1 (WPS-controlled).

• The term Maintenance Event is used if you create and manage this object in the SAP Fiori app Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets.

When you create a maintenance event using the Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets app, you need to select a Maintenance Event Type, when you create a revision via SAP GUI you need to select a Revision Type.

Maintenance Event Types and Revision Types are defined in a common Customizing table. In Customizing both are referred to as Revision Types. The following revision types are available:

• WPS-Controlled (Maintenance Event Builder)
• Not WPS-Controlled
• Planning Bucket
• Planning Bucket with Administrative Order

Maintenance Events and Revisions are part of standard SAP S/4HANA - so they are available as additional fields (filters) in the apps of Resource Scheduling (RSH) as well as in a number of standard apps - and help to organize and structure your work load.

For example, the fields can be used in the following apps:

• Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners (RSH)
• Manage Work Center Utilization (RSH)
• Manage Maintenance Schedule for Assets (RSH)
• Maintenance Scheduling Board (RSH)
• Maintenance Planning Overview (standard S/4HANA)
• Find Maintenance Orders (standard S/4HANA)