Overall Profile for the Capacity Availability Check 

Definition

Profile that contains the settings for the check and finite scheduling in the capacity availability check.

The capacity availability check is a capacity leveling function. You define the overall profile for the capacity availability check - as with the overall profile for capacity leveling - in Customizing for Capacity leveling and extended evaluations. In the standard package, the system uses the following profiles for the capacity availability check:

Structure

The overall profile contains several subprofiles in which the settings are grouped thematically. The most important functions of the various subprofiles for the capacity availability check are listed in the following table:

Subprofiles of the overall profile for the capacity availability check

Subprofiles

Function

Control profile

Controls capacity leveling as a capacity availability check

You must enter the following for the Presentation type and Layout type fields:

  • Presentation type: 4 (Capacity availability check)
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  • Layout type : 1 (Period split layout)

Selection profile

Controls which capacity requirements are relevant for the capacity availability check, and which capacity requirements the system interprets as an already existing capacity load on a capacity (basic load).

The standard definition of the basic load is the capacity requirements of dispatched operations and operations with confirmed capacity. These are operations that you:

  • Dispatched in the planning table
  • Confirmed the capacity of during a capacity availability check
  • Confirmed the capacity of during basic load determination

The logic of the capacity availability check is based on this definition of the basic load. Any other definition would lead to incorrect results for the capacity availability check. You are therefore advised to use the standard selection profile from SAP.

Time profile

Specifies:

  • Together with the order dates, the time period in which the system searches for free capacity during finite scheduling in the capacity availability check. For further information, see Finite scheduling in the capacity availability check in the section Search period.
  • The time period for reading the database
  • The backlog dispatching date, if the system has to consider the backlog in the capacity availability check; that is, if it must consider the capacity requirements of operations from the past.

The backlog is made up of all capacity requirements between the start of the time period where the database is read and today's date. You must enter a 0 as a backlog dispatching date (load in the current date period).

Period profile

Controls with which period split the system executes the check and finite scheduling in the capacity availability check.

The check compares periodically the free capacity and the capacity requirements. The smaller the period split, the finer the degree of detail achieved by the check.

Evaluation profile

Controls the distribution of capacity requirements over the periods on the period split (distribution key) and the density of capacity requirements and available capacities.

Strategy profile

Controls finite scheduling and backlog dispatching during the capacity availability check. For the capacity availability check, you must:

  • Enter the planning direction
  • Set the Finite scheduling indicator
  • Set the Total capacity load indicator, if you want to consider the backlog during the capacity availability check.

If you want to consider the backlog, you must also enter the backlog dispatching date 0 in the time profile.

  • Enter the Dispatching sequence
  • Activate the dispatching function Set up the dispatching sequence
  • Activate the dispatching function Consider operation sequence in the order ( only relevant for orders without relationships)
  • Activate the dispatching function Midpoint scheduling

 

The following subprofiles in the overall profile are not relevant for the capacity availability check: