Good afternoon,
I am setting up the holiday schedule for our shop. We have two different holiday schedules for night shift and for day shift. For example if day shift gets Good Friday off on April 15th, then night shift will get their day off on Thursday, April 14th.
What would be the best way to setup this kind of schedule? I would like to have one production schedule that sets the hours for the shop, but this little issue may prevent that. Do I need to setup separate calendars for day and night shift?
are you doing finite scheduling? if so then it might be best to apply a different calendar to each of your people resources so that you know what days and hours they work. Then you can have a different holiday schedule and the system will know who can work when.
If not doing finite scheduling, then it is easiest to simply specify how many hours are available per day.
but remember… in a finite world, if you normally run a 16 hour per day shop… 18 employees during first shift, and 4 during second shift… you DO really need to have two calendars so that the system can properly allocate which jobs will be worked on during each shift. You cannot simply have one 16 hour calendar, because if you do, the system will assume that all 22 employees are available for 16 hours per day, which is simply not true. You have only 18 employees for the first 8 hours, and 4 during the second, meaning they cannot do he same throughput.
I think the managers want to make the scheduling as easy as possible. Pretending we have infinite capacity, and trying to extrapolate our true capacity from that.
On the other hand, all the advice I have been given leads me to try to schedule as precise as I can. To that end, I am shooting for finite scheduling. It seems like separate calendars for day/night employees will give us the best results.
Just so I understand, you are saying that instead of a site-level calendar, we skip that, and just have calendars set on our people?
Thanks again, Tim. Your advice is greatly appreciated!