Can anyone share there "best practices" in Planning utilizing the PM Module?

Audit/monitor compliance to the schedules, just setup a good report layout with IW39.

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What do you mean by planning best practices?

Josh,

Best Practices are practices that have been demonstrated by "best of the best" companies. There are probably 50 plants in the US that utilize Planning and Scheduling Best Practices. I am asking if they would share them.

Ricky

Try this link to begin

http://help.sap.com/bestpractices/BBLibrary/bblibrary_start.htm

I have found the ones that are using capacity evaluation and leveling in conjunction with the Planning table are the best of the breed.

Jso

I learnt 7Ps rule for planning practices. Wnat to know that? Any guess what it stands for?

You stated in another thread: Plant, Procedures, People.

a fourth P for Parts?
a fifth for Priorities?
do not know what include for the sixth.
last P for Plan (after all other P's are accounted for).

Or 6th Plan, and then 7th Perform?

These make me remember four M's I learned in a Production Planning course back at the university:

Man (People)
Materials (Parts)
Machine (Plant?, Equipment)
Methods (Procedures)

Hint: Pls join all the 7 Ps in a sentence.

Better I tell the answer then which I learnt during one of those plant turnarounds:
7 Ps rule = Previous Proper Planning Prevents Poor Plant Performance!

Question: When is a work order considered planned?

Answer: When the Planner can answer the following questions centered on the 5 M's.

Remember that not all work orders need planning, work orders that involve trouble shooting mechanical, electrical and instrument problems may only require a good description of the problem and a contact name to help with any missing details. A current P&ID, motor elementary or a list of the last work orders written to the functional location/equipment may help complete the work order. The work order also needs an estimate of the crafts, people and time involved for scheduling purposes.

Below are the 5 M’s that need to be considered when planning a work order.

• Manpower – What is the staffing required to do the job? Are there more than one craft involved? Are contractors or vendors reps involved in the repairs?
• Material – What material is required? Are the components stocked or do they need to be purchased? Are some components “free stores” or are they stored in a warehouse or gated storage yard? Have you checked the salvage or scrap yard for material that could be used instead of using stores stock or purchasing from a vendor? Have you check with the storeroom to see if there is any excess material at another location? Even if your facility does not stock the material, the material you need may be in excess at another facility.
• Machines – What equipment is required for the job; does the repair need a welder, cutting torch, jackhammer, mag-base drill, 20 foot ladder or a forklift, man lift, crane or boom truck? This information needs to typed into the operation long text so it will print on the work order operation. The craftsmen should leave the shop with the equipment required to do the repairs or have arranged mobile equipment (crane) to meet him at the job site.
• Methods – What are the jobs requirement concerning printed material. Are manuals, pictures, drawings, detailed inspection forms and repair procedures required for the job? If required, the information should be printed and attached to the work order as shop papers.
• Management – Although much of a jobs management is scheduling, coordinating the on-time delivery of parts, staging material at the job site, coordinating vessel and fire watches and working with contractors and vendors are all part of managing a work order. Work order and notification closure, BOM and other documentation updates are also a part of managing a work order to completion.

Please note: You cannot plan a work order from your desk. You need to go out in the field and look at the jobs. Take copies of the work orders, a tape measure and a digital camera. Ask yourself - if I was going to do this repair, what would I need and how would I do it.

Also for Material:
* could you canibalize the parts required from another equipment that is already down, to speed up this job that can not wait for parts delivery?

quote:

Question: When is a work order considered planned?

A second before pressing the Release button.

Looking at the responsibilities of the planner, the 5 M's, he should get the manager's salary. Doing all paperwork and walking around "planning" the jobs.
What the supervisors/foremen are paid for?

To boss technicians around?