TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Background and how to get it done

Introduction

This article will help you understand how dates can be set when Safran is the receiving host system (quite similar for P6) and SAP is the sending host system.

Background and how to get it done

It is not possible to set scheduled dates in Safran… all you can set are the activities’ individual durations, links, and calendar definitions – and then hope that its internal scheduling engine sets the Early Start and Finish (as well as Last Start and Finish) based on this...!

However, there is an important alternative:

Specifying so called “constraints” for each activity, most notably the constraints called “MustStartOn” and “MustFinishOn” in most planning systems.

Since the SAP Getway (API) used by IDE does not currently support exporting calendars, nor network links between activities, it is not possible to recreate the start and finish dates in Safran using its scheduling engine.

Instead, the SAP start and finish dates must (as indicated in introduction above) be mapped to the Safran schedule’s “fixed_start_date” and “fixed_finish_date” fields, so that the scheduling engine is told to use whatever dates are given here.

This is typically done in the receiving Safran Config in the following way:

1. Press “Add ILAP core field” button in the “Value transformation” tab.
2. Select the Activity level field called “EarlyStart”.
3. For the formula [VALUE] and specify Host Field “fixed_start_date”
4. Do the same for EarlyFinish, mapping it to “fixed_finish_date”, according to screenshot above.