Capacity Planning in the Planning Table (SAP Library

Capacity Planning in the Planning Table

Use

For each production line and per period, the system displays the available capacity, capacity requirements and the capacity load as a percentage. The capacity data is recalculated after making any changes. Therefore, the planner has an overview of the capacity situation of the production lines and can react quickly to overloads.

Prerequisites

In the standard version of Customizing for MRP and for Repetitive Manufacturing, the Scheduling parameters for planned orders with order type LA are set to either detailed or rate-based scheduling and to rate-based scheduling for run schedule quantities (planned orders with order type PE). Production orders are set to detailed scheduling.
You have the option of changing these settings.
However, the scheduling levels should be kept as consistent as possible.

For more information, please refer to the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Repetitive Manufacturing, under Capacity Planning.

You must enter the line to be used for production in the production version. This production line must also be used in an operation in the routing. The system then uses the operation with the production line for scheduling.

If your production lines are subdivided into individual lower-level elements, such as processing stations, you must create a line hierarchy for the production line and define a work center as the planning segment in the line hierarchy. If you have not defined otherwise, the system automatically uses the header of the line hierarchy as the planning segment. The planning segment must also be used in the routing. The operation with the planning segment is then used for scheduling.

In the initial screen of the planning table, you must select the Capacity planning indicator.

In the initial screen of the planning table, you must select detailed or rate-based planning depending on the settings for the order type in Customizing.

Features

The system displays the capacity data for the selected lines in the upper section of the planning table. In the standard settings, if more than two lines were selected, the system initially displays only the capacity load as a percentage for one production line.

You then have the following options:

You can display the available capacity, the capacity requirements and load for every capacity category (for example, labor) of a production line.

You can switch between the capacity categories of a production line. However, this is only possible if you have not set the indicator Only cap.

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You can set the planning table to display the capacity requirements that have already been dispatched in the capacity planning table only.

You can branch to the capacity planning table where you can continue planning. The changes you make in the capacity planning table are immediately transferred to the REM planning table.

If you have created a line hierarchy for the production line, you can define capacity segments in the line hierarchy. The line segments of the production line defined as the capacity segments are displayed with the capacity data in the planning table. You can display the capacity load, capacity requirements and available capacity for these selected work centers of the line hierarchy. You can also change the capacity segments from the planning table by branching to the line hierarchy. After making any changes, the system displays the newly defined capacity segments in the planning table.
However, you can only select one of the capacity segments of the line hierarchy that lies in a lower level to the ones already defined as capacity segments. That is, you usually want to hide capacity segments that obscure the clarity of the planning table. This has no influence on the capacity planning table.

If, in Customizing for Repetitive Manufacturing, in the IMG activity Maintain row selection, you have set the indicator Min /max pers., the system displays two extra rows in the capacity data section of the screen.

Minimum number of personnel per period.

Maximum number of personnel per period.

For more information, see: Capacity Planning Using Personnel in the Planning Table.