Visual Advanced Production Scheduler (VAPS) for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Support
Release and version status
Installing the VAPS
Look and feel of the visual schedule
The view color modes
- What does the Item View (color mode) show?
- What does the Machine/Work Center View (color mode) show?
- What does the Production Order View (color mode) show?
- What does the Production Order Status View (color mode) show?
- What does the Progress View (color mode) show?
- What does the Shopfloor Status View (color mode) show?
- What does the Execution Status View (color mode) show?
- What does the Availability View (color mode) show?
- What does the Wait Times View (color mode) show?
- What does the MRP View (color mode) show?
- What does the Production Line Assignment View show?
- What does the Production Line Sequence View show?
Setting up the VAPS
- The "General" settings of the VAPS
- The "Scheduling" settings in the VAPS
- How to set up EMAD calculation
- Settings for integrating MRP/planning worksheet
- How to set up the automatic calculation of the earliest start date
- The "Sales order handling" settings of the VAPS
- Show/hide notifications window
- The "Appearance" settings in the VAPS
- Configure the sorting order
- How to define default colors
- How to define individual colors for specific items
- How to define individual colors for specific machine centers
- How to define individual colors for specific production orders
- How to configure tooltips
- How to configure bar labels
- Configure table texts in the VAPS
- How to use flow fields for tooltips, table, and label texts in NETRONIC'S simulation tables
- How to define alternative routings/ alternative work/machine centers
Integrating with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Integrating with Business Central standard manufacturing
- How to set up standard Business Central options to work best with the VAPS
- Output and consumption postings
- Integration with MRP/planning worksheet
- Integration with shopfloor data
- Integration of sales orders and production orders
- Calculate the earliest start date automatically
- Add/remove work time
Finite Capacity Scheduling Instruments
- What is finite capacity scheduling?
- Move operations
- Schedule successors
- Apply standard routing
- Apply alternative routing
- Schedule unplanned production orders in one go by the "Add all" function
- Move production orders, production order lines, or operations to standby in one go
- Fill idle times
- Tighten queues
- Calculating and working with earliest material availability
- Sequence-dependent setup times
- Resolve conflicts due to overloads or link constraints
- Handling of concurrent capacities