Planning Optimization centralized calendar maintenance

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts Feb 1, 2022 Apr 29, 2022

Business value

Minimize time spent to update calendars by using base calendars that enable centralized updates to cascade into multiple individual calendars.

Feature details

Base calendars establish a hierarchical structure in which a single centralized calendar update is automatically distributed to all individual calendars that use that calendar as a base. Planning Optimization support for base calendars provides great flexibility in terms of creating specific calendars and assigning them to production resources.

Planning Optimization benefits

With Planning Optimization, companies can benefit from:

  • Significantly improved performance and scalability with in-memory processing.
  • Minimized system impact on other processes made possible by running master planning as a separate service.
  • Near real-time insights into requirement changes, achieved by running master planning several times daily during office hours.

Learn more about Planning Optimization

For more information about the Planning Optimization migration process and answers to frequently asked questions, see Migration to Planning Optimization for master planning.

See also

Calendars and master planning (docs)