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Production Scheduler is a planning tool used to view the scheduling of work orders in the form of a Gantt chart. Elements are sorted by production order, by work center and by workload.

Used in a short-term context, the Production Scheduler function sets up a schedule to implement and distribute workload. It is particularly useful for adjusting unexpected production or supply events.

Used in a medium or long-term context, the Production Scheduler function can simulate workload in order to analyze what a facility is capable of producing within a given objective.

Production Scheduler provides you with two types of plans, a 'work plan' and a 'published plan':

• The 'work plan' is the proposed schedule. The planner can apply modifications to this schedule to manually redistribute the suggested machine, labor or subcontracted workload.
   The planner cannot apply modifications to scheduled operations where the start date or start time has been preset in the work order (fields Forced start/Forced time). A forced start date/time is fixed in the schedule and 'pinned' automatically. Production scheduler cannot, therefore, optimize its scheduling capabilities as 'pinned' operations are blocked from manual changes. To change a scheduled operation with a forced date/time the work order must be first be removed from the scheduling (using the Work order Remove from scheduling action). The date/time must be adjusted accordingly (or deleted) in the work order then the work order resubmitted for scheduling.
  
• The 'published plan' is the planner's confirmed schedule. The planner can publish either the original, proposed work plan or their modified work plan.
  If the published plan is different from the original, proposed schedule the elements modified by the planner are updated in the relevant work order records. These can include the work order (WO) start and end dates, scheduling status, WO situation and, potentially, the work center.

You can use the Production Scheduler viewer function to view the scheduling (for inquiring into elements of the plan and for browsing through time). Note that you can only use this function to view the scheduling, you cannot use it to reorder elements within it.

Production Scheduler is only available for on-premises instances of Sage X3.