Postponing Jobs

Not all jobs can be performed at the given due date, so there is a need to be able to postpone jobs.

This chapter will describe all features on postponing jobs.  

How to postpone a job to a different due date or due counter value? There are two different starting points to start the postpone procedure

1. At least one of following procedure can be done from any grid that lists jobs.

              a)   Select the job in the Due list. Click the     [Postpone job] button in the top menu bar.

[Postpone job] in the top menu in the job details form.

The “postpone job” detail form 

1. Select a date you wish to postpone the job to or if it’s a counter job enter the new due counter value. The original Due values are shown within parentheses.
2. Enter a reason for the postponement. It is mandatory to enter a reason for why the job is being postponed.
3. Click [OK].

The job has now been postponed to the new values. If you started the postponement process from the due list you will still see the job in the Due list, tagged with a yellow ball in the status column. Once you click [Refresh], it should disappear from the due list, not appearing before the counter values or new due date is reached.

A job history record for the postponement of the job is created in the job history.

How to postpone to a project? 

Some of a vessel’s jobs may require special conditions to be performed. The vessel might need to be put in a dry dock, or it may be depending on other jobs to be performed first etc. To assist you in such cases TM Master v2 allows jobs to be postpone to a “Project”. A project is a list of jobs grouped together with a common due date.  

1. At least one of following procedure can be done from any grid that lists jobs.
   1. Select the job in the Due list. Click the              [Postpone job] button in the top menu bar.
   2. Double click the job. Click the              [Postpone job] in the top menu in the job details form.
2. Tick the “Post pone to project” check box.
3. Select an existing project or create a new one, by clicking the [New...] button.

The “Create new project” form

1. Enter a name and description for the project.
2. Select a Due date for the project.
3. Click [Save and Close].
4. The name for the project should now be shown in the “Project” field.
5. Enter a reason for the postponement and click [OK].

The job has now been postponed to the project and has the same “Due date” as the project. You can review your projects in the [Maintenance] à[Project] module. More details on this module can be found in the chapter “Project”   

How to multi postpone jobs?

If more than one of the jobs in the due list are to be postponed to the same project or due date, you can select them all and postpone them all in one go. Here is how to do it:

1. Select the jobs you wish to postpone, by holding the [CTRL] key while selecting
2. Click the [Postpone job] button in the top menu bar.
3. Enter the required information for the postponement (same as for regular postpone)
4. Click [OK], and confirm the postponement for each individual job.

Not all jobs are allowed to multi postpone. Running hour jobs can’t be multi postponed. And it is possible to configure the system not to allow multi postpone based upon the jobs “Criticality” and “Priority”.