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Using PSO in a "batch optimise" way


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Hello,  we’re in the middle of our deployment of PSO for our business which has two distinct operations: one is basically a logistics business: delivering water to customers with lead times of several days.  The other is a more conventional “service” business with technicians installing, servicing and repairing machines.  However, even with the service business we generally work to 5+ days SLAs and so there is very little work of a truly dynamic nature.  We’re finding that the continuous optimisation of PSO a bit difficult to work with - the concept is clear - that it’s continually trying to beat its previous schedule.  But if we’d rather run it in a “batch optimise” mode - effectively load the latest day’s work and press the “schedule” button is this possible?  This may be a preferential model for our go-live and gradually move up to the continual optimisation.

 

For info, we’re running Apps 9 (soon to upgrade to Apps 10) with PSO using the standard IFS interface 


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It sounds like you would want to use the static or reactive process types (defined on the Input_Reference in your data).

There’s more information about the different process types in the Datasets section in the Scheduling Concepts - Introduction guide.

Thanks,

Sam

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Thanks Sam, that’s very helpful and has got us thinking already

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