A company produces pipe at certain fixed lengths.
The company must be able to schedule cutting machines.
You set up the cutting machines as resources.
All cutting resources can produce many of the products.
There are some products that require cutting machines that can produce longer lengths of product.
Only some of the machines can do this.
You need to configure the resources to account for these different products.
What should you do?
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/supply-chain/production-control/tasks/define-resource-capabilitiesIn order to account for the different product lengths and the cutting machines that can produce those lengths, the correct approach is to build capability related to length and assign it to the appropriate resources. This can be done by following these steps:
Define capabilities: Define the capabilities that are required for producing different product lengths. For example, a capability of "long length cutting" may be required for producing pipes of certain lengths.
Assign capabilities to resources: Once the capabilities have been defined, they should be assigned to the appropriate cutting resources. This can be done by navigating to the resource record in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing and assigning the appropriate capability to the resource.
Schedule production: With capabilities assigned to resources, the production scheduler can now schedule production jobs based on the required length of the product. The scheduler can select resources that have the required capability for producing the length of the product being produced.
Option A - Configure the Data/Hour option on the Capacity unit field on the resource - is not the correct approach for accounting for different product lengths. The Data/Hour option is used to configure the amount of capacity that a resource has available in terms of data per hour, and is not related to the length of the product being produced.
Option C - Create a resource group for each length - is not an efficient approach as it would require creating multiple resource groups, one for each length, which can lead to complexity and confusion.
Option D - Create a resource for each length - is not an efficient approach either as it would require creating multiple resources, one for each length, which can also lead to complexity and confusion.
Therefore, the correct approach is to build capability related to length and assign it to the appropriate resources, as described above in steps 1-3.