Zipper Scheduling

Imagine you have a factory like this

You have 2 lines of production that merge into a bottleneck resource

In order to prevent overload in the subsequent operations or to prevent starvation you need to adopt the zipper method of alternating product

https://youtu.be/cX0I8OdK7Tk

Its sort of a version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heijunka_box

The best way to achieve this in Dynamics 365 Business Central is to use your demand forecast. Take the rough cut version and copy it down to 1 week where you break out the production daily and level the load. It will then schedule automatically in sequence.

If you have questions/comments, please reach out to me

Mike Fontaine