Checking the Capacity Availability Online

Use

In order processing, you can call up the capacity availability check manually at any time. In addition to this, the system can trigger the capacity availability check automatically at order creation or order release, if you have set the system to do this in Customizing. During the capacity availability check, the system only considers the capacities that are relevant for finite scheduling.

If, during the check for the operations in the order, the system determines that the capacities are loaded to over 100%, the Capacity availability dialog box appears. Here you can:

Decide for which operations you want to confirm the capacity
Execute finite scheduling

After finite scheduling, you can decide whether you want to incorporate the new dates and confirm the capacity of the operations.

Prerequisites

The Capacity availability dialog box is on the screen.

For information regarding the Customizing settings for the capacity availability check, see the section on prerequisites for the Capacity availability check .

Procedure

Call up the capacity availability check in the order header.

If the system determines insufficient capacity, it takes you to the Capacity availability dialog box.

If you want to:

Choose:

Branch to the display of check results, and from there execute, if required, finite scheduling

Detail Infos

The Capacities with overload dialog box appears. The system displays periodically for the operations all the load data for all capacities relevant to capacity scheduling that are loaded with operations, for example:

Available capacity in a period
The total capacity requirements in the period
The capacity requirements of the checked operation
The load limit of the capacity (100% plus the allowed overload)
The actual load on the capacity in the period

Overloaded periods, that is, periods where the capacity load exceeds the load limit, are underlined in red.

Immediately execute finite scheduling

Finite scheduling

The system executes finite scheduling, and the dialog box Operation dates appears .

Here the new dates and date shift for each operation are displayed in days.

In both dialog boxes the Capacity confirmed indicator is set for an operation, if there is sufficient capacity available on all the capacities that are loaded by the operation; that is, if the capacity load of all capacities lie within the load limit. You can cancel this indicator at any time or set it again for any number of operations, even when capacity is insufficient.

All possible activities that you can select in the Capacities with overload and Operation dates dialog boxes are summarized in the following table:

Possible activities in the Capacities with overload dialog box

If you want to:	Choose:
Incorporate the displayed confirmation indicators	Copy The system only incorporates into the basic load the capacity requirements for operations for which the Capacity confirmed indicator is set.
Confirm capacity of all operations	Confirm all The system sets the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations and incorporates their capacity requirements into the basic load.
Confirm the capacity of none of the operations	Confirm none The system cancels the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations and does not incorporate any capacity requirements into the basic load.
Execute finite scheduling for an order	All finite sched. The system executes finite scheduling, and the dialog box Operation dates appears (see below) .
Set the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations	Select all
Cancel the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations	Delete all selections
Reset the confirmation indicator to the status before the check	Cancel

Possible activities in the Operation dates dialog box

If you want to:	Choose:
Incorporate the displayed operation dates into the order Incorporate the displayed confirmation indicators	Copy The system only incorporates into the basic load the capacity requirements for operations for which the Capacity confirmed indicator is set.
Incorporate the displayed operation dates into the order Confirm capacity of all operations	Confirm all The system sets the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations and incorporates their capacity requirements into the basic load.
Incorporate the displayed operation dates into the order Confirm the capacity of none of the operations	Confirm none The system cancels the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations and does not incorporate any capacity requirements into the basic load.
Set the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations	Select all
Cancel the Capacity confirmed indicator for all operations	Delete all selections
View the dispatching log	Dispatching log
View the scheduling log	Sched. log
Reset the operation dates and the confirmation indicators to the status before finite scheduling	Cancel

If you reschedule an operation that has had its capacity confirmed (for example, by scheduling the order or by shifting the operation in the planning table), prior to doing so you should cancel the Capacity confirmed indicator and then execute finite scheduling again. The system does not cancel the indicator automatically during scheduling or rescheduling. If you do not cancel the indicator, the basic load is no longer correct - it can even exceed 100%.