Setting Up Repetitive
Setup activities for Repetitive are almost exactly the same as for Advanced Repetitive. You need the same kind of base data such as items, sites, locations, employees, product structures, and routings.
The programs used to set up production lines, allocation percentages, shifts, and changeover times are identical in both modules.
Defining Control Program Settings
Settings in Repetitive Control (18.24) differ from those in Advanced Repetitive.
Repetitive Control (18.24)
Next Picklist and P/L Prefix
Same as Repetitive Control (18.22.24) in Advanced Repetitive.
Consume Forward and Consume Back
These fields, in coordination with Start of Week, determine how the system handles item completions that exceed the quantity scheduled for a given day.
When Consume Back or Consume Forward is nonzero and you record more completions than scheduled, the system consumes open quantities on past schedules, then future schedules, based on the number of calendar days specified in these fields. Schedules with due dates before the day specified in the Start of Week field are not considered.
This process stops when all available schedule quantities are consumed or all excess completions have been recorded against a schedule.
For schedules with due dates in the past, the Consume Back value also determines which open quantities planning functions such as Material Requirements Planning (MRP) consider as sources of supply.
For more information, see
Reporting Completions.
Start of Week
Enter the day of the week for the system to use in coordination with the Consume Back value:
• When searching for exploded schedules with past due dates on which to record excess item completions
• To determine which open quantities on past schedules to consider as sources of supply in planning functions such as MRP
Valid values are Sunday–Saturday, Today, and None.
To ensure that all completions are recorded only against scheduled orders for the current week, you can define control program settings as follows:
• Set Start of Week to the first day of your company’s business week (typically Monday).
• Set Consume Back to 7.
• Set Consume Forward to 0 (zero).
