eAM Scheduling (Enterprise Asset Management)

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) shares the Scheduler Workbench, used in Oracle Manufacturing, to schedule work orders and operations.

The Scheduler Workbench enables a planner to graphically view and reschedule work orders. It provides you with a visual display of work orders, operations, and resources. You can interactively reschedule work orders, operations, and resources by dragging and dropping them at a new date and time. Any sequencing requirements defined for the Work Order are displayed and maintained during scheduling changes. Resource availability and requirements display so that you can graphically view the impact of scheduling changes.

Attention: You have the Infinite Scheduler available to you; this scheduler is not constraint-based.

The scheduling process calculates the work order and operation scheduled durations and dates, based on the forward or backward scheduling goal (See: Routine Work Orders), and Work in Process parameters. The concurrent program is triggered after a work order is released (See: eAM Work Order Statuses). The work order automatically transitions to a Pending Scheduling status, until the concurrent program finishes scheduling. At that time, the work order transitions back to a Released status.

Additional Information: Oracle eAM uses the Infinite Scheduler for automatic scheduling. The Infinite Scheduler considers only the calendar setup and will not consider further finite exceptions. It does not consider shift exceptions or take the resource loads and availability into consideration. The Resource Availability form is a view to display information on the availability and considers exceptions so that you can perform manual scheduling accordingly.