A SMK contains - Opening period, Float before, Float after & Release period Opening period - Number of workdays

subtracted from the order start date to determine the creation date. Use - The opening period can be used by the MRP controller as an extra time buffer. The opening period is only used in backward scheduling. Float before - The number of working days between the order start date and the scheduled start date; used as a float in production scheduling. Float After - The number of working days used as a float for scheduling between the order due date and the scheduled finish date. The safety margin after production is used for compensating malfunctions within the order production. Release Period - Number of working days in the release period of this order. Also refer to this thread for an example Given: Need date - 01.01.2010, Inhouse production time - 10 days, Float before production - 5 days, Float after production - 2 days (assumptions: GR time - 0, Opening Period - 5 days, Release period - 1 days, 7 working days per week & no holidays) Basic Finish Date - 01.01.2010 Scheduled Finish Date - 30.12.2009 (because Float after prodn is 2 days) Scheduled Start Date - 28.12.2009 (because Float before production - 5 days) Scheduled Release Date - 27.12.2009 (because Release period - 1 day) Basic Start Date - 23.12.2009 (because Inhouse prod time - 10 days) Opening Date - 18.12.2009 (because Opening period - 5 days) Hope it clarifies your query. Scheduling Margin key ( Float before production - Float after production) Posted: Oct 26, 2008 7:06 AM Dear Expert , I maintain in material master float before and after production

When i rescheduling in house production in routing and display the result i found the time for float is calculated in Interoperation time And I as i know Scheduled start & Scheduled finish determined the production dates only & FBefProd is time between basic start and Scheduled start and FAftProd is the time between Scheduled finish date & basic finish date Why he put it there at the time it's not actually maintained in production date ? In the routing, click on scheduling result push button, Here you can see how this interoperatioon time is calculated how much is Float before and after production. exampleschedule margine key - 001 float before production - 2 day Float after production - 1 days Routing data- for 1 qty - 24 hrs After you schedule in routing and see the details of scheduling result, the following result Basic start date - 30.11.2008 Basic finish date - 03.12.2008. Scheduled start date - 02.12.2008 Scheduled finish date - 02.12.2008. base qty - 1 TO Processing time - 1 day interoperation time - 3(all inclding floats) Total inhouse production time - 4 days Now repeat it for 2 qty, results are as below Basic start date - 30.11.2008 Basic finish date - 04.12.2008. Scheduled start date - 02.12.2008 Scheduled finish date - 03.12.2008. base qty - 2 TO Processing time - 2 day interoperation time - 3(all inclding floats) Total inhouse production time - 5 days I hope you got the idea.