Scheduling Bulk Plan

[nipunlakhotia]

Hi all,

We can use Process management to schedule Bulk plans at some specific date/time as well as at the desired frequency.
e.g. bulk plan should run every day at 12:15pm.

• Is there a way in OTM to schedule bulk plans such that they don't run on Saturday/Sunday and on some pre-defined holidays?

Or

• Can we schedule bulk plans based on some calendar?

Regards
Nipun

[josephliang]

Re: Scheduling Bulk Plan

No standard way for what you are trying to do.
But you can use Agent (or DB scheduler) to adjust NEXT_PROCESS_TIME in PROCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST table based on your rules.

[LourensGlog]

Re: Scheduling Bulk Plan

A simple way to skip the weekend is to set up 5 process managers (Mon-Fri) all repeating 7 days. To (manually) manage other holidays: if you know that on a certain Wednesday it will be a holiday, than you can manually move the date of the Wednesday-process a week forward a couple of days before it will run.

A tad more complex is to use a daily process manager and to include a day-of-week check in the saved query for the orders to be planned.

One client knew that on non-business days their order system would not create orders in OTM, so it used this information in the bulk plan query to run a plan or not.

I know people have attempted to use data in the calendar database tables to manage this, but not successfully to my humble knowledge.