Shift Pattern Allocation Maintenance

This program lets you allocate more than one shift pattern to the same site, work center, warehouse or production line.

Exploring

This program is accessed from the Program List of the SYSPRO menu:

  • Program List > Bill of Materials > Shift Patterns > Setup

In manufacturing environments shift patterns are work cycles that provide smooth rotation of staff.

Shift patterns can be defined at various levels (i.e. company, site, work center, production line, warehouse or machine) and a work day can have multiple shifts with different start and end times to accommodate shift requirements.

This facilitates planned work days or work hours for staff and planned down-time for machines.

Topics

WIP Shift Patterns

Starting

To use this program, the following setup option(s) must be configured appropriately:

Setup Options > Preferences > Manufacturing > Bill of Materials

  • Shift pattern level

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Electronic Signatures provide security access, transaction logging and event triggering that gives you greater control over your system changes.

Controls access to the Add function of the Shift Pattern Allocation Maintenance program.

Controls access to the addition of shift pattern allocations within the BOM Multiple Shift Allocation business object.

Controls access to the maintenance of shift pattern allocations in the Shift Pattern Allocation Maintenance program.

Controls access to the maintenance of shift pattern allocations within the BOM Multiple Shift Allocation business object.

Controls access to the Delete function of the Shift Pattern Allocation Maintenance program.

Controls access to the deletion of shift pattern allocations in the BOM Multiple Shift Allocation business object.

You can restrict operator access to programs by assigning them to groups and applying access control against the group (configured using the Operator Groups program).

The following configuration options in SYSPRO may affect processing within this program or feature, including whether certain fields and options are accessible.

The Setup Options program lets you configure how SYSPRO behaves across all modules. These settings can affect processing within this program.

Setup Options > Preferences > Manufacturing > Bill of Materials

  • Default shift code
  • Shift pattern level

  • You can only define one shift pattern per machine if the Shift pattern level setup option is defined as Machine.

Solving

This message is displayed when you attempt to open the Shift Pattern Allocation Maintenance program before the required setup options have been configured.

Ensure that the Shift pattern level setup option is defined appropriately within the Setup Options program (Setup Options > Preferences > Manufacturing > Bill of Materials) before attempting to use this program.

Define the following within the Setup Options program (Setup Options > Preferences > Manufacturing > Bill of Materials):

  • Define the level at which you want to create shift patterns at the Shift pattern level setup option.

  • Optionally define the default shift at the Default shift code setup option.

Using

  • Columns in a listview are sometimes hidden by default. You can reinstate them using the Field Chooser option from the context-sensitive menu (displayed by right-clicking a header column header in the listview). Select and drag the required column to a position in the listview header.

  • Fields on a pane are sometimes removed by default. You can reinstate them using the Field Selector option from the context-sensitive menu (displayed by right-clicking any field in the pane). Select and drag the required fields onto the pane.

    The captions for fields are also sometimes hidden. You can select the Show Captions option from the context-sensitive menu to see a list of them. Click on the relevant caption to reinstate it to the form.

    If the Show Captions option is grayed out, it means no captions are hidden for that form.

  • Press Ctrl+F1 within a listview or form to view a complete list of functions available.

Referencing

This commences processing according to your selections.

This lets you change the currently configured review criteria.

This closes the current window or program.

Field Description

Site locations |

Production lines |

Warehouses |

Work centers

This lets you select the site, work center, warehouse or production line for which you are adding a shift pattern.

The caption displayed at this field/column depends on the selection defined against the Shift pattern level setup option.

Shift codes

This lets you indicate the shift codes that you want to maintain.

Date options

 

Include shift patterns by date

This lets you select shift patterns that are valid within a specified time period.

You can then define these dates within the Valid from date and Valid to date sections.

Valid from date

Indicate the start date from when the shift patterns are valid.

Valid until date

Indicate the end date up to which the shift patterns are valid.
Column Description

Site location |

Production line selection |

Warehouse |

Work center

This indicates the site, work center, warehouse or production line for which you are adding a shift pattern.

The caption displayed at this field/column depends on the selection defined against the Shift pattern level setup option.

Shift code

This indicates the code of the shift pattern for the selected site location, warehouse, work center or production line.

Description

This indicates the description associated with the selected shift code.

Active according to dates

A tick within this column indicates that the shift pattern is only active for a certain time period.

Active from date

This indicates the date from when the shift pattern is valid.

An entry of None is displayed if the shift pattern is not active for a defined time period.

Active to date

This indicates the date until when the shift pattern is valid.

An entry of None is displayed if the shift pattern is not active for a defined time period.
Field Description

Assign shift code for

This read-only field indicates the level at which you are assigning the shift, depending on the selection defined against the Shift pattern level setup option.

Site location |

Production line selection |

Warehouse |

Work center

This lets you select the site, work center, warehouse or production line for which you are adding a shift pattern.

The caption displayed at this field/column depends on the selection defined against the Shift pattern level setup option.

Shift code

Indicate the code of the shift pattern you are assigning to the site location, warehouse, work center or production line.

Description

This indicates the description associated with the selected shift code.

Activate shift according to date

Select this to indicate that the shift pattern is only active for a certain period.

This allows you to activate and deactivate shift patterns without having to recapture and assign the shift pattern.

Valid from date

Indicate the date from when the shift pattern is valid.

Valid until date

Indicate the date until when the shift pattern is valid.