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

Capacity Categories

Definition

A capacity category classifies the capacity based on its characteristics and functions. It determines the field selection for capacity maintenance.

Examples of capacity categories are "processing unit", "labor", or "storage".

Use

Capacity categories belong to different capacity types that specify how the available capacity of a resource is defined. There are three different capacity types:

Capacity category with available capacity in a time unit:

Capacity category for which the available capacity is defined based on the time-related availability and which can therefore be non-continuous. This means you must take non-productive time periods into account when using the available capacity in the production process. When defining such an available capacity in resource maintenance, you can use shift definitions to structure the available capacity according to time-related variables.

The capacity categories processing unit and labor belong to this capacity type.

Capacity category with available capacity in a volume unit / unit of measure:

Capacity category for which you define the available capacity based on a volume unit or unit of measure and that is therefore continuous as far as time is concerned. Shift definitions are used here to describe when the volume / the storable quantity changes.

The capacity category storage belongs to this capacity type.

Capacity category with available capacity in a time unit, volume unit and unit of measure:

Capacity category for which you define both an available capacity in a time unit and an available capacity that is continuous as far as time is concerned in a volume unit / unit of measure. The available capacity that you define in regard to time is used, for example, for scheduling operations, and the available capacity that you define in a volume unit / unit of measure is used for quantity-related control of the material flow.

The capacity category processing unit / storage belongs to this capacity type.

Integration

You can only assign a capacity category to a resource once. Capacity categories are to correspond to the respective resource categories.

You use them with the resource categories as follows:

Capacity category with available capacity in time unit:

You mainly use this capacity type for the resource categories "labor" and "processing unit".

Capacity category with available capacity in volume unit / unit of measure:

You use this type for storage resources that are not used for production.

Capacity category with available capacity in time unit, volume unit and unit of measure:

You use this type for storage resources that are also used for production.