Cumulation of Available Capacities
If you want to look at capacity load of production areas in capacity planning rather than at the load of specific work centers then you can represent the areas of the business that are relevant to planning in work center hierarchies. You can then cumulate the available capacities and capacity requirements.
The following graphic displays an example of cumulating available capacities.
Cumulating available capacities in a work center hierarchy
In this graphic the following cumulations are carried out:
The available capacities "labor" in work centers
center 3 and center 4
were cumulated one hierarchy level higher to the work centerwork center group 2.
No cumulation was carried out in this work center for the capacity categories "machine" and "transport" because these capacity categories do not exist inwork center group 2.
The available capacities "machine" and "labor" in work centers
center 1
andcenter 2
were cumulated one hierarchy level higher to the work centerwork center group 1.
No cumulation was carried out in this work center for the capacity category "transport" because this capacity category does not exist inwork center group 1.
The available capacities "machine", "labor" and "transport" for work centers
center1
tocenter 4
at the lowest level of the hierarchy were cumulated two hierarchy levels higher to work centerlathe shop.
Note
The system does not cumulate successively from one hierarchy level to the next. The available capacity of the work center
Lathe shop
for example, does not comprise the available capacities of the work centers
Work center group 1
and
Work center group 2
.