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The Default calendar is the system-wide work day calendar. This calendar should be set to your company's general work day schedule for each part type within your plant. The R+ standard is a 5 day work day calendar. If this is also your company's standard work day calendar, you do not need to make any additional changes to this screen.

If you have a different standard work day schedule for or within your plants you will need to edit this calendar. For example, your planners and buyers may only work a 5 day work week, but your plants manufacture parts every day of the week.

This is an important distinction as it will determine the dates for each order and how your EDU is calculated across R+.

If there are locations using R+ that have different work week schedules than the default, you can make those changes in the Location Calendar. The default calendar should represent the company's standard work week.

Editing the Default Calendar

To change the number of standard work days in your work week, click the checkboxes on the workdays in the calendar. Once selected, the box should turn green. Once you have selected all of the days in your standard work week, click the "Save" button under the calendar.

In the example below, the planners and buyers work a 5 day work week. All plants manufacture parts on all days in the week.

EDU Calculations and Default Calendar

The EDU calculation is primarily based on the calendars and the number of weeks in the ADU/FDU horizons in the Site Administration settings. The EDU calculation is always Total Demand / Number of Working Days within the ADU/FDU horizons. Total Demand means that all demand, even if it appears on a non-working day, will be summed in the EDU calculation.

The Default Calendar is the primary calendar considered for this calculation. It sets the default number of working days in the EDU. Changes in other calendars will add or subtract days to this default number at the location or part level.

Dates and Default Calendar

All order dates on the supply orders generated by R+ in the Workbench and in the APM will first follow the Default calendar. No dates will be placed on a non-working day in the calendar unless requested by the business in a custom order.