Creating and Processing the Vendor Capacity (SAP Library

Creating and Processing the Vendor Capacity

Use

The vendor capacity equals the total of the total capacity and the overload capacity that you assign to your vendor based on periods, and/or the total that your vendor provides. You can hierarchically map the vendor capacity with a maximum of 99 levels for each vendor-material combination.

Example

Vendor L produces two jeans models in one plant and another two models in a second plant. Your vendor uses several materials for the production. You can map the capacity of vendor L as follows:

At vendor level you enter the agreed total capacity of 6,500 hours. At the first vendor capacity level (plant), Plant 01 has a total capacity of 6,000 hours and Plant 02 has a total capacity of 5,500 hours. At the second level (model) you have two jeans models per plant with the respective capacities. Finally, the various materials are at the third level (material).

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Plant 01 has a maximum capacity of 6,000 hours. You can use 6,000 hours of this capacity for model W1. Alternatively, model W2 can be produced during a total of 5,000 hours. Model W1 consists of material Jeans 01. Since the production of a pair of jeans takes 15 minutes, a total of 24,000 jeans can be produced. Jeans 02 is a component of model W2 and has a production time of 20 minutes. This results in a total of 15,000 jeans. The explanations are also valid for Plant 02.

Making the Basic Settings in Customizing

Make the basic settings for the vendor capacity planning in Customizing. Choose Materials Management ® Purchasing ® AFS Source Allocation ® Vendor Capacity.

Define Vendor Capacity Levels
Define the hierarchy levels of the capacity structure that are relevant for you (such as plant, material group, model, or material).

Define Vendor Capacity Nodes
Specify values for capacity nodes (for example, Plant 01, Plant 02, Model W1, Model W2, Model W3, Model W4, Material Jeans 01, and so on).

Assign Vendor Capacity Nodes to Vendor Capacity Levels
Assign the capacity nodes that you have defined to the corresponding capacity levels.

Creating and Processing the Vendor Capacity

Logistics ® Materials Management ® Source Allocation ® Vendor Capacity Planning ® Maintain Capacity Periods.

In the initial screen of the vendor capacity, choose Capacity ® Create.

Enter the vendor, the purchasing organization, and the validity period. If capacity periods have already been created for this vendor, they can be displayed via the F4 help.
Specify the number of vendor capacity levels in the field level account.

Note

Note that the vendor level is not calculated here. In the example above you would have three levels: plant, model, and material.

Choose Create Periods.

Maintain the vendor level with the agreed total and overload capacities and choose Next level to process the first capacity level.

Choose the capacity level and the corresponding capacity nodes and determine the total and overload capacities of this capacity level. Repeat this procedure for the other capacity levels.

The material level is always the lowest capacity level. If the base unit of measure of the vendor capacity deviates from the unit of measure of your material, you can store a quotient at material level, so that the units of measure will be converted.

Example

The unit of measure of your vendor capacity is maintained in hours and the UoM of your material is maintained in pieces. If your vendor can produce 4 jeans in one hour, enter the ratio 4 (pieces) : 1 (hour).

With the help of the split period vendor capacity, you can split already defined capacity periods into weeks, months, quarters, and so on. To do this, choose Logistics ® Materials Management ® Source Allocation ® Vendor Capacity Planning ® Maintain Capacity Periods ® Capacity ® Change ® Split period.

Enter the required data and choose the period you want.
Choose Create Periods and enter the factory calendar to calculate the workdays per period.
The system proposes the new capacity periods.
Choose Create Periods to get the new capacity periods.