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Infor LX & BPCS Manufacturing Tip: Shop Calendar Maintenance – SFC140D1

Shop calendar maintenance, SFC140D1 This program features multiple-level shop calendar maintenance. You can maintain a shop calendar at the global, facility, or work center level. Global level entries override default values found in Work Center Maintenance, CAP100D1, for any program that uses the shop calendar.

Facility overrides affect all work centers in a Facility and are exceptions to the global level. Exceptions defined at the Facility level apply to all work centers for the facility. Work Center calendar entries are the most specific. These entries apply to a single work center and override any Global or Facility conditions.

If you have deleted a work center in Work Center Maintenance, CAP100D1, you cannot delete its shop calendar. The system treats the work center shop calendar like a global calendar for that year. If you try to delete it, you will delete the global shop calendar for that year.

Range processing provides daily or weekly maintenance of all overrides for a period of up to one year with a single command.

The following explains how Infor LX uses calendars for manufactured and purchased parts planning:

  • Infor LX treats purchased and manufactured parts in the same way.
  • Infor LX does not use the work center calendar.
  • In facility planning, Infor LX uses the facility calendar.
  • If the global calendar has additional days blocked out relative to the facility calendar, MRP/MPS plans consider both the facility and global days-off.


In all cases, the system uses the item master/CIC lead time parameter to determine the release date for the planned order regarding the due date from the forecast or parent demand. The system considers days blocked out in the facility and global calendars when it determines the planned order release date.

Example: Assume the entire system (Global) has a specific date set as a regular workday. If one particular Facility recognizes this day as a holiday, no hours are available on work centers within that facility. If conditions at one work center are an exception to this holiday, that work center can be maintained with its own set of conditions.

Simulation Mode

The Shop Calendar Selection/Maintenance Simulation program, MRP747B, uses the Shop Calendar Maintenance programs, SFC140D, in a simulation mode. The MRP program allows you to maintain shop calendar information to simulate capacity planning and to view the results before you use the data in live capacity planning.

When you run MPS by facility, you cannot maintain global calendars. This safeguard prevents a user from unintentionally overwriting the live global calendar if the user runs Copy to Live, MRP770D.

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Two big sources of inefficiencies in manufacturing are paper and spreadsheets. I know that you love ‘em, but they are the cause of more problems than you probably realize. Think of how long it takes you to get paper based data into the hands of those who can do something valuable with the data. Are you capturing all of the information correctly? Timely? What about those spreadsheets? Can everyone access that information across your organization? Is that data married with all of the related data regarding your operations to give your executive and middle management the information they need when they need it?

Make your shop floor paperless and put in place systems that talk to one another and automatically pull and push data to and from your ERP so that you can look in one place for all the information you need to run your business effectively.

If you’re not doing this today, you might as well be burning money.

Ok… so you want to know the status of a specific shop order that was released two days ago.

What do you do?

It’s a sure bet that you have a manager, supervisor, or planner who can walk the floor and find the order at whatever work center it happens to be at. He/she can then answer “what operations have been completed and how many were completed?” All this requires leg work, and of course, a fair amount of time.

Now, if you have setup your BPCS master files properly, and you report transaction activity, you should be able to get those shop order statuses much faster using the SFC300 Shop Order Inquiry Screen.

At your fingertips you can see:

  • Release date & due date
  • How many hours remain in total and at each operation
  • The quantity required, what was finished and the remaining quantity
  • What components (materials) have been issued

Pretty basic information, right? Are you getting what you need to know? If not, then you may want to reexamine how your BPCS files are setup and what transactions along with their frequency are captured.

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