Dynamic priorities are at the core of SkyPlanner, enhancing AI-assisted production planning. You thus direct the AI with your wishes. This feature allows you to set priorities for different customers, tasks, and orders, and the AI intelligently considers them in the work schedule. You can favor key customers, plan urgent or time-consuming tasks as a priority, and efficiently resolve conflicts between priorities.
To set the dynamic priorities:
- On the GANTT Timeline, click on the gear icon at the top of the center.
- A new window will appear, Global rules.
- Scroll down until the last part, where Dynamic Priorities are.
Here you have a guide on what which one means:
Lead time: This is the time it takes to complete an order item, i.e., the time between the start of the first process step and the end of the last. When this is high, the AI tries to find a scheduling plan such that the lead times of all the scheduled order items are as small as possible.
Jobs ordered by completion date: The AI schedules the jobs (the process steps within the order items) so that the one with the minor due date is scheduled first, then the second job, and so on. It does this regardless of other entities, such as job duration, and it can actually cause other jobs to be late.
Every job completed in time: This is roughly the same as the previous one, but it may delay one order item so that others can be completed on time. The difference is that this one looks at the whole plan and tries to get as many jobs on time as possible.
Customer priorities: To the left of this view, you will find a button titled ‘Customers.’ From here, you can prioritize your customers and hence differentiate them. The AI understands this situation in such a way that it is important not to delay a specific customer’s job when you have limited resources. Using this parameter, you tell the AI how much it should consider this criterion.
Job priorities: You can insert job priorities by right-clicking on a process step in the scheduling view. The Job priorities option has the same logic as the previous parameter, and the AI understands that it is essential not to delay important jobs. By using this parameter, you are telling the AI how much it should consider this criterion.
Jobs scheduled as close as possible to the start eligibility dates: When you create the jobs, you can let the AI decide which is the best day to start a job, but you can also insert the start eligibility as additional information. Using this parameter, the AI tries to schedule the jobs as close as possible to the inserted dates.
Similar jobs in succession: When you have products with a similar property (color, material, and tools as simple examples), you can schedule orders close to each other to save time in the workstation setting. For instance, if several orders use the same mold, SkyPlanner will try to schedule them next to each other if it doesn’t damage the delivery times and the other dynamic priorities preferences.
- Move the priorities according to the criteria you want to follow and click Save. Press on the X on the top right to close this window and see your GANTT Timeline.
SkyPlanner’s Dynamic Prioritization Feature brings flexibility to multi-level priority management. This means you can also highlight different priorities against each other, ensuring that the most important ones are given the highest priority over others.