Understanding the Maintenance planning process

[Lazze]

Hi
I'm struggling a bit to understand the process of maintenance planning

We are creating a maintenance plan for the next 365 days (monthly cycle). Every day a background job runs, creating monthly orders for the next 270 days (don't no why this number is being used)... I've been told that this is done to enable the maintenance teams to plan the next 6-8 months capacity requirements.

The problem is when something changes during these 270 days, e.g. adding a new item to the maintenance plan. This item will not be released before the period after the 270 days, and if we in IP10 press "New start", we end up with creating new order per maintenance item (which of course we do not want to..)

1. How is this process designed to work?
2. Is it possible to plan the next 6-8 months based on "not-yet-created-orders" (marked as Scheduled in IP10) and how?

Thanks in advance

[PJA]

The case when you change the plan inside the 270 day window, you would need to close all orders created for that plan, then change the plan and reschedule via IP10.

As to why your company chose 270 days, you will need to determine that for yourself.

In general companies use either (around) a week or a month look-ahead in IP30...