Capacity and Resource Consumption for PP/DS Resource Categories

The following table shows the possible values for capacity and resource consumption for the resource types you use in PP/DS for planning in-house production. For the single-mixed and multi-mixed resources , for which you define a time-specific capacity and a period-specific capacity, and which are therefore used in both PP/DS and SNP, only the time-specific capacity relevant to PP/DS or the resource consumption relevant to PP/DS is described.

Possible values for capacity and resource consumption for PP/DS resource types

Resource Type	Description	Capacity	Resource Consumption
Resource Type	Description	Capacity	Fixed	Variable
Single-activity resource Single mixed resource	Can only process one activity at a time	1	1	Not possible
Multi-activity resource Multi-mixed resource	Can process several activities simultaneously. Activities share the resource’s capacity	Value in any unit of measurement To represent a machine group, enter a whole number without a unit of measurement for the number of machines.	Value and unit of measurement of the required capacity	Only possible for fixed activity duration