Urgent : Automatic Selection of work center

Question

Dear All,
Good Morning,
please provide me valuable input to accomplish the business scenario,
the scenario is
1.There are 16 NC T-Bending Machine with different capacity.
2. The Client wants to select the workcenter automatically if the 1st workcenter is overloaded i.e 2nd workcenter should be selected by the system
Again,if 2nd workcenter is overloaded then system should select 3rd workcenter and so on..
How I can make it possible.
I am trying the Alternative sequence ,will it works to achive the requirement .
please give ur valuable inputs.
Thank in advance,
Vijay Mankar

Answer 1

In capacity leveling transaction, enable "date entry when dispatching".  Then, every time you dispatch operations, you will get a pop-up for date entry.  Luckily, this pop-up also has a field for work center - so you can change work center also (with or without date changing).
We are using this method extensively.  Start transaction with all the work centers that you want to be considered.  Then, just select all the orders and dispatch.  In pop-up, change work center to the next in list.  So, some orders will get dispatched to that work center, and after its capacity is fully booked, the balance orders will fail to dispatch.  Once again, select all orders (left in the order pool) and dispatch, and change work center in pop-up.  You will have to do this as many times as the list of work centers OR till all orders are dispatched (whichever occurs first).  Takes just about a minute per work center and works perfectly.
- Chetan