We are restructuring our Work Unit set up - How do I manage this when scheduling?

Capacity

Pay careful consideration to capacity. Having both old and new work units available for scheduling will result in capacity appearing greater in APS than actual and can result in overscheduling.

Data Collection

You will also need to consider  terminal configuration. Equipment will need to be imported into seat maintenance, Added to relevant groups, associated with corresponding terminals and any filters adjusted according. Information on each of these requirements can be found by search the knowledgebase. 
 

Scenario:

We are restructuring our work unit set up which will result in new work units being created to replace the existing. We will have jobs in the system where the old work units are defined in the routings as well as new jobs that have the new work units defined. How can we manage this?
 

Solution(s):

Once you are have run the option to import new work units from the home menu, an automatic mapping will be created between the work unit in Enterprise Resource Planning and the work unit created in Visual APS.  In the majority of cases work unit mappings do not require any reconfiguration. However there may be situations where the company wishes to maintain a different organisational structure of work centres/work units within Visual APS. Old work units can be mapped to replacement work units to allow all operations, irrespective of the routing, to be scheduled according to the new work unit requirements. 

Using the following example where MBBA02 is replacing MBBA01

To amend the default mapping of work units

1. From the home menu in Visual APS and select the Mapping command
2. Click on the + sign next to the work unit MBBA02
3. Place a check mark next to all work units you wish to group together MBBA01 and MBBA02
4. Select OK
5. In the Un-schedule options dialogue box, indicate what to do with orders that are affected by your change
6. Select the Home Menu
7. Select Alternatives

After creating the new work unit mapping, operations for MBBA01 and MBBA02 can be scheduled to work unit MBBA02 only. Reverse the above if you decide to remove the mapping.