# Setting up the Scheduler

You will need to create scheduling configurations in order for the Scheduler to understand your constraints. The way we group these configurations together are Data Templates.

These data templates will include data such as:

* **Availability -** Shifts, Maintenance Periods, Leave and other Time increments
* **Equipment -** the physical assets, work centres, tools and resources used to manufacture product
* **Materials -** the materials consumed and produced at various stages of the manufacturing workflow
* **Personnel -** the human resources used to undertake work, operate equipment and perform tasks
* **Operations -** the definition of the process, job, product or work function that requires scheduling
* **Changeover** - the change over matrix and its properties.
* **Optimisation -** different optimiser profiles

Once these entities are modelled, users can create, manage, and schedule production, work, or other manufacturing orders against the data model.

Users can create multiple Data Templates to support different operational scenarios. Templates may represent a standard daily schedule or "what-if" scenarios that test different assumptions, such as adding equipment, reducing labour, changing materials, or modelling alternative shift patterns.

## Next steps

### Quick MVP Guide

Follow this MVP Setup Guide to get started and play around quickly. However this will lack specific details about how each configuration are set up and work.

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[MVP Setup Guide](/tillit/knowledge-base/scheduler/setting-up-the-scheduler/mvp-setup-guide.md)
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### Step by step guide

Start with creating Data Templates and then each of the data model (Equipment, Materials, and more)

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[Data Templates](/tillit/knowledge-base/scheduler/setting-up-the-scheduler/configuration.md)
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