No of work centres in JOB Scheduling

Finance and Operations/AX User Forum
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This is a question regarding Dynamic Ax job scheduling .

As per the std Axapta there should not be more than 32 work centres in a work centre group. Also while JOB scheduling the system checks that the number of work centres ( the primary defined at route + alternative work centres defined at the Task group attached to the route ) should not exceed 32. If so, the system does not check for the best work centre for scheduling and schedules the prod.order at the work centres it finds in the primary work centre group ( PMCG) in the seq. ( e.g if work centre qty is 3 in the prod. route then it will take the first 3 work centres in the PMCG work group) without checking if the other work centre are available or not. This results that the prod orders are always planned on the first 3 work centres in the work centre group.

We have a situation that we have to configure and schedule production on 150 work centres ( all identical in capacity ) .

Pls help .

Regards

Shekhar

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Hi Shekhar

From what you say in your request, I can only point to the following checks you can make :

  • in your production set up parameters, verify that the automatic scheduling key is set to ‘job scheduling’ and not ‘operations scheduling’

  • have you tried to associate your work centers to particular task groups ? See menu path Production\ Set Up\ Work Centers\ Task Groups. With the ‘requirement field’ you can even set the order in which Axapta has to schedule the work centers

I’d be interested to hear the outome, keep me posted.

Thanks,

Monty

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Hi Shekhar, As far as I know this limitation has to do with an integer’s 32 bits and could be extended to 64 in AX 4.0 where a new type int64 is introduced. In order to do this modification you need to refactor scheduleAlternatives() method. Of course it will not help in case of 150 work centers… Best regards, Vitaliy.