Capacity Scheduling Board
Application component: Monitor Work Center Schedule Gantt view
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Manufacturing
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Capacity Planning (S/4)
Description:  This app was previously known as Monitor Work Center Schedules. With this app, you get an overview of the operations performed at your work centers by visualizing their schedules over a time period. Pacemaker work centers are critical as they help determine the schedule of an order. You can use this app to plan optimum utilization of pacemaker work centers by matching their capacities with those of the orders that have to be dispatched. 
An app using which you get an overview of the operations performed at your work centers by visualizing their schedules over a time period.
Key features:    View your work centers and their schedules on a chart for a selected time period based on filter criteria such as product number, scheduling status, plant, MRP area, and so onNote Only pacemaker work centers are displayed by default. You can also view all work centers that meet your filter criteria.   View different types of filtered and unfiltered operations for each work center on the chartNote Horizon, Work Center, Work Center Group, and Plant behave like regular filters and only those operations that match the filter criteria are displayed on the chart. Such operations are named Filtered operations and are represented using shades of green.In case of all other filters, not only are the operations that match the filter criteria displayed in green, those operations that do not match the filter criteria are also displayed. Such operations are named Unfiltered operations and are represented using shades of gray.See the chart legend to know the type of operation each shape and color combination represents   View on the chart, in gray, the non-working time of work centers   Expand a work center to view operations that overlap   Choose a work center to view contextual information and all possible actions that can be performed on that work center by navigating to related apps   Choose Set Strategy to select the Scheduling Control and Direction for your scheduling strategyNote Planning Mode is always Sequence   Realign your scheduled orders (in pacemaker work centers) to a past or a future date and time   Set the maximum number of days (up to 30 days) possible to schedule orders in the past   Select an operation in a pacemaker work center on the chart and choose Manage Operation to view free slots on a chart in a new page based on your strategy, and perform the following actions:   View details related to the operation   Change the scheduling start or scheduling end of the operation based on the direction set in the strategy, and Reschedule the operation   Select a free slot on the chart to view the Free Slot Details and choose Dispatch to dispatch this operation to that slot   Select any dispatched operation on the chart and Deallocate it   Select an operation on the chart and view the Operation Info   View vertical lines on the chart representing the different dates related to the order   Note Pacemaker work center of the production version of the operation is displayed first in the list, followed by work centers of alternative routings  Recommendation It is recommended to use SAP formula for scheduling and work center capacities. If you maintain different formula, it may result in inaccurate free slot information.    Select all the filtered operations on the chart by choosing Filtered Operations   Select one or more pacemaker work center and choose Schedule Production to navigate to the app, where you can schedule orders to be dispatched from these pacemaker work centers   Select one or more operation on the chart and choose Order Details to view details of each order in a new page along with its schedule of operations and alternative routings on a chart, and in gray, the time during which shifts, or intervals do not exist Note To select more than one operation on the chart, press and hold Ctrl.The time during which shifts, or intervals do not exist is displayed only for 90 days in the past and 90 days in the future.   Select one or more operation on the chart and choose Operation Info for an overview of each operation and the details of the corresponding work center and order   Display order IDs and product IDs on operations from chart settings   Navigate to the Variant Configuration screen (advanced variant configuration) to view the product configuration for the production orders (indicated by an icon).   View the free slots according to the dates set in the Production Version irrespective of the set Past Threshold.   
Business roles: Production Planner
Production Planner : 
Plans, monitors and adjusts material supplies produced internally and ensures material availability for sales order fulfillment and production supply. Collaborates internally with customer care and other production planners.