Capacity Maintenance (SAP Library - Resource (PP-PI-MD))

Capacity Maintenance

Purpose

Capacities determine the ability of resources to perform tasks in certain time periods. You require capacity data as a basis for capacity requirements planning, costing, and scheduling in master recipes and process orders.

In capacity maintenance, you create the following capacities:

Pooled capacities
Capacities that are created so their available capacity can be copied or referenced in resource maintenance

The detail screens and fields in capacity maintenance correspond for the most part to those in resource maintenance.

Process Flow

You create a capacity by selecting a plant, capacity key, and capacity category.

Capacity categories can be subdivided into various types. You select one of the following capacity types depending on the resources to which you later want to assign the capacity:

Capacity category with available capacity in time unit (for resources used for production)
Capacity category with available capacity in volume unit / unit of measure (for storage resources)
Capacity category with available capacity in time unit and in volume unit / unit of measure (for resources that are used in storage and in production)

You maintain capacity header data (with a standard available capacity or an available capacity in volume / quantity). This includes:

General data (here you determine whether it is, for example, a pooled capacity)

For an available capacity in a time unit, data that defines a standard available capacity, like work start and finish, break time, rate of capacity utilization, number of individual capacities, and the factory calendar on which it is based

For an available capacity in volume / quantity, data that defines a quantity or volume-related available capacity, such as the minimum and maximum storage capacity and the number of individual capacities

If required, you choose a version of the available capacity that is to be active.

Planning details that are required in capacity requirements planning

If required, you create intervals for available capacity for time periods in which the available capacity differs from the standard available capacity.

The shift values that you define here refer, depending on the resource category, to the time-based or quantity-based capacity.

If required, you check the capacity data in an available capacity profile or in a graphic.

You save the capacity.