Examples of General Settings 
The following gives examples of settings in the strategy profile to achieve particular business objectives.
If you want to...
- Keep to scheduled dates in the order, that means, if the dates must lie within the operation and order floats, set the following indicators in the strategy profile:
- Use operation float
- Use float bef. prod.
- Use float aft. prod.
- Cancel dispatching due to error
If you also set the indicator Insert operation, the system tries to dispatch the requirements (operation) for the scheduled dates even if the work center commitment is already fixed. It does this by shifting other requirements (operations).
- Achieve a machine commitment without gaps, set the indicator Dispatch at earliest point in time in the strategy profile. Dispatching takes place within the planning period at the earliest possible time, independently of the dates calculated in scheduling.
To close the gaps that may have arisen as a result of deallocating or rescheduling a requirements (operation) you must specify "Until end of the planning period" for the indicator "Close gaps".
- Replace a work center that is no longer available with another dispatch the requirements for the various orders to another work center, then set the indicator Date entry on dispatching in the strategy profile. If this indicator is set you get to a dialog box after selecting requirements to be dispatched. You must enter the new work center and depending on the planning direction and the dispatching date in this dialog box. The entries are then valid for all selected requirements (operations).
- Take the backlog into account when dispatching on the planning table (tabular form), set the indicator Overall capacity load in the strategy profile. If you have set the indicator then the overall load for all the periods in the planning period is taken into account.