Working with Capacity Leveling
Prerequisites
You are in the main screen for capacity leveling.
Procedure
Selecting Capacities (Work Centers and Capacity Categories)
The system displays the Capacities dialog box. It displays all work centers and capacity categories (person or machine) that form the basis for the capacity requirement of the material. The system displays the maximum load for every capacity category. Any overload is highlighted.
You can scroll between the individual capacities using and .
Check Capacity Overload
Choose Overload.
The Capacities with overload dialog box with a list of all periods in which the respective capacity is overloaded appears.
As standard, a capacity is overloaded if the load is bigger or equal to 100%, that is, the same as or larger than the available capacity. You can, however, also set your own user-defined percentage values:
The Settings for overload display dialog box appears.
The system carries out the overload check using the changed values.
Displaying Pegged Capacity Requirements in Detail
You can display,
The system displays the orders generating the requirements in the lower section of the screen.
You can display the scheduling data for these orders. To do this, position the cursor on the required planned order and choose Edit ® Scheduling data.
Planning Capacity
In the Planned order screen area, you can change the dates or quantity of the planned order selected. The system plans the order again immediately.