Interactive Scheduling Using the Gantt Chart
Interactive scheduling provides a time-phased graphical interface to your plan's scheduled activities and resources to help resolve inevitable shop floor problems. It lets you troubleshoot exceptions arising from resource or material constraints; overloaded or underloaded resources; absenteeism, or machine downtime. Use interactive scheduling to pinpoint affected jobs and operations and simulate changes towards effective, timely resolution.
You can use the Gantt Chart for plan type Constrained.
To access the Gantt Chart
Follow the appropriate navigation path as shown in the table:
| Current Window | Navigation |
|---|---|
| Exception Details window | [Select any field] > [right-click] > Gantt Chart |
| Supply window | [Select any field] > [right-click] > Gantt Chart |
| Resources window | Click the Gantt Chart button |
| Navigator | Select a resource>[right-click]>Gantt Chart Select a resource and click the Gantt chart button and the bottom of the navigator window. |
The title in the Gantt Chart window reflects the view selection that you make-- Orders View, Resource Activities View, or Supplier Capacity View.
When the Gantt Chart opens, there are two group boxes.
- The first group box displays "Gantt Chart" and the instance and organization selected.
The icons provide options for various Gantt chart views.
The Preference set determines the user preferences for Gantt chart display options.
The Go To option enables you to go to a specific date when the Gantt chart is displayed, and the Today option enables you to view the current date. - The next group box displays the view that is selected, with a left and a right pane.
The folder icon enables you to save selected settings.
The View field enables you to select a view.
The left pane displays a tree structure with multiple columns. The columns are dependant on the view that is selected.
Depending on the view selected, the left pane displays a list of resources, orders, or item suppliers.
To select a view, use the drop down menu in the left pane.
The right pane panels begin at the plan start date. To go to another date, you can:
- Scroll horizontally
- Enter a date and time in Go to: and press Enter. To go to today, click Today.
The right panel header also shows the planning granularity that was used for a certain portion of the planning horizon. This is different from the display granularity. For example, you may be viewing the Gantt chart in weekly buckets, but the portion of the planning horizon you are viewing may have been scheduled at the day level of granularity
